US warship arrives on Venezuela’s doorstep Shooting at a historically Black university's homecoming fest in Pennsylvania kills 1 and wounds 6 'Lassie' and 'Lost in Space' actress June Lockhart dies at ...

Operation Squabble was a bold Royal Air Force mission aimed at boosting French morale while embarrassing the occupying Germans. Carried out by just two aviators flying a lone Bristol Beaufighter, the ...

My Grandad, like many Grandparents to British people of my generation, lived through and fought in the Second World War. He was a Flight Sergeant and a Navigator during the War and remained in the RAF ...

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EIGHTY FIVE years after he suddenly came out of the clouds over Worcester and dropped two bombs on the Meco factory in Bromyard Road, killing seven people and injuring more than 60, the name of the ...

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Marguerite Weyer, air mechanic with the WRNS who worked on the Seafire and Bristol Beaufighter Marguerite was a promising art student when in 1946 she decided to volunteer for service as a Wren, and ...

Marguerite Weyer, who has died aged 96, was a Wren air mechanic who helped keep the Fleet Air Arm flying from remote coastal stations in the postwar years. Many young women who volunteered for the ...

Israel’s first air force pilots didn’t have an enviable fleet of aircraft, but they countered this disadvantage with aggressiveness. The volunteers came from multiple countries, including South Africa ...

An artist has saluted two painters who fired generations of youthful imaginations by creating art for Matchbox and Airfix model kit boxes. Mark Postlethwaite tipped his wings in tribute following the ...

We take class warfare to 300mph as we pit the aristocratic Mosquito against the no-nonsense proletariat muscle of the Beaufighter to find out who the real war-winning twin is. A well-born beauty with ...