Explore the key events of the Battle of Britain with clips from over 50 years of BBC television and radio programmes The Battle of Britain was the German air force's attempt to gain air ...

John 'Paddy' Hemingway, who died in March at the age of 105, has been honoured with a Hurricane named after him The last Battle of Britain pilot, John "Paddy" Hemingway, who died at the age of 105 ...

Group Captain John “Paddy” Hemingway died last month aged 105. The decorated hero was the last surviving Battle of Britain pilot. He was shot down four times during World War Two, and flew ...

He was a pilot in the Battle of Britain at age 21. Those who fought in the three-and-a-half-month battle came to be known as “The Few,” following on then PM, Sir Winston Churchill.

LONDON — The last surviving pilot of the Battle of Britain has died, severing the last living link to the few thousand young men who fought the Nazi air force to a standstill amid fears that ...

The last surviving pilot from the Battle of Britain, Group Captain John “Paddy” Hemingway, recalled the moment he was shot down in 1940 in an interview that has resurfaced following his death ...

Following the Battle of Britain he worked as a controller, helping to direct the RAF’s response to German attacks. At the end of the war, Hemingway served as commander of No. 43 Squadron, which ...

A heritage railway has given driving lessons to raise funds for a Battle of Britain memorial event. The Spa Valley Railway's locomotive 303 Squadron ran from Tunbridge Wells, with the two novice ...