The Heinkel He 111, one of the best-recognized German bombers of World War II, was developed in the early 1930s by Siegfried and Walter Günter at Heinkel Flugzeugwerke as Germany's secret project ...

This story was submitted to the People’s War site by a volunteer from Northumberland on behalf of Don Simcock. Mr. Simcock fully understands the site’s terms and conditions, and the story has been ...

These words of the Battle of Britain pilot Group Captain Hugh “Cocky” Dundas (Telegraph obituary, July 1995) sum up the most remarkable aircraft of the Second World War – the Supermarine Spitfire.

This story was submitted to the People’s War site by Bill Ross of the ‘Action Desk — Sheffield’ Team on behalf of Michael Isherwood, and has been added to the site with the author’s permission. The ...

A Supermarine Spitfire F.Mk.VB of RAF 243 Squadron in flight. NASM Photo SI-81-1431A The legendary Supermarine Spitfire gave the British a fighter that could compete with Germany’s Messerschmitt Bf ...

I was in school in Llandudno in 1940/41 prior to going on HM traning ship Conway and then to sea in the MN at 17 years of age in 1943. On Easter Sunday , after a raid on Liverpool a Heinkel 111 ...

Air Commodore Paul Webb, who has died aged 89, was one of the three Spitfire pilots who took part in the shooting down of the first German aircraft attacking a target on British soil. Webb was ...

Eighty years ago the first Spitfire took to the air for its maiden flight. Today, as part of the Mail's Spitfire Week, we reveal some of the facts about the plane that won the Battle of Britain... * ...