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Flight Lieutenant John Beeching, one of last remaining RAF Bomber Command veterans from World War II, has died. Beeching ...
Research is to take place into losses sustained by RAF bomber crews in the far east during World War Two.
May 1942. On RAF bases across Britain, aircrews sit nervously in their briefing rooms, every available chair filled. From ...
Halifax 57 Rescue and Havsresan have secured approval to salvage RCAF Halifax Bomber HR871, lost off Sweden in 1943, and return it to Canada.
The son of a twice-knighted RAF hero who studied at Oxford University has shared his memories of his father. Sir John Curtiss, who died in 2013, was part of the Oxford University Air Squadron and was ...
A Sussex man who is now the only surviving Second World War RAF Lancaster Pathfinder has turned 102. Jack Dark, from Horsham, ...
RAF High Wycombe, which was originally designed to house RAF Bomber Command in the 1930, houses Headquarters Air Command. Follow Beds, Herts and Bucks news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X.
1819 - Commodore Oliver H. Perry, the hero of the Battle of Lake Erie, dies on board the schooner, USS Nonsuch, in Trinidad of a fever contracted during his successful efforts to suppress piracy ...