EXCLUSIVE: In the week we honour Battle of Britain Day, the peak of our 1940 air defence of the UK, we stepped into the boots of our flying heroes.

The city of Ploiești, Romania, was better known during World War 2 as Hitler's gas station. The country produced a third of ...

Under the haunting glow of a pale moon, the massive Vickers Wellington Bomber from the 75th Squadron ascended over the Zuider ...

EXCLUSIVE: Hitler wanted the seaside town to be his 'Pleasure Palace' so being ignored by the Luftwaffe meant 840,000 RAF personnel could train in peace.

THIS neat three-bedroom 1930s home on an estate in Southampton does not look anything out of the ordinary. But it is the ...

Hitler earmarked Blackpool as his 'pleasure palace' and go-to holiday resort for weary Nazi troops with a swastika flying on ...

"Lucky" was just a wide-eyed 21-year-old lieutenant when he manned the B-17 controls and took to the sky for his first ...

A commemorative flypast to mark the 85th anniversary of the end of the Battle of Britain has been rescheduled after bad ...

The daughter of a “kind” man killed in a daytime factory bombing has spoken out 85 years later. A dark shadow was cast over Southampton on September 11, 1940, as German bombers targeted the city in a ...

The World War II veteran survived 25 perilous B-17 missions over Nazi Germany and later became a voice for remembering the ...

History is littered with possibilities. The only thing historians love more than bickering among themselves is speculating ...

On the night of December 29th 1940, my grandmother, Dorothy, reported for duty as a wartime volunteer fire-watcher in the ...