LIKE many young boys, Eric Richomme was fascinated by planes. Leaving Jersey aged just 16 during the early days of the Occupation to join the Allied forces in the Second World War, the former De La ...

A Lancaster Bomber fly-past has been cancelled due to 'high winds'. The aircraft had been scheduled to fly over North Staffordshire on its way to Smallwood Vintage Rally and then on its return to its ...

A Lancaster Bomber fly-past has been cancelled due to ... Vintage Rally and then on its return to its Lincolnshire RAF base. But the fly-past was cancelled at 1.05pm this afternoon due to the ...

He was the only survivor of a seven-man crew whose RAF bomber was shot down over France in August 1943. He spent the next three months making his way back to Britain via Switzerland ...

The RAF casualties were Pilot Officer R D Richard Blackley, Pilot Officer D R Cameron and Sgt C G W Mawby. Pause in remembrance. A service is held on the 80th anniversary of the Wellington Bomber ...

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It was home to RAF Bomber Command in World War Two and became redundant in 2004. Image caption, Many people gathered in Garth Park on Sunday to remember those who lost their lives Bicester Town ...

The combination of aircraft and radar proved so formidable that, by early 1944, Royal Air Force bomber losses were as high as 12 percent on some raids. A British-captured Heinkel He 219 bearing ...

Under the aegis of FEAF Bomber Command, the Superforts began chipping away at the advancing North Koreans. Back in the United States, mothballed B-29s were refurbished and aircrews recalled.

Bits of an engine from a wartime Spitfire involved in a fatal 1940 crash have returned home to the site of the former RAF Hornchurch airbase where the plane took off from. The engine pieces are ...

Players: Britain: 617 Squadron of Air Marshal Sir Arthur Harris's RAF Bomber Command, commanded by Wing ... The idea for the Dambusters raid originated in 1940, when aeronautical designer Dr ...