Eighty years after a pivotal battle of the Second World War, few of those who fought there are alive to describe what it was ...

Marshall of the RAAF. Eighty years ago, he played a crucial role in the D-Day airborne landings on Normandy, France.

A Halifax aircraft from RAF 518 Squadron airborne over Tiree during World War II. (Photograph from Mike Hughes/An Iodhlann) ...

Tom Davidson, 100, has been recalling his time in the RAF during WWII. One of those to perish during the conflict ... Tom ...

WWII Fighter Aircraft At RAF Museum Aircraft ... fighter aircraft that outperformed some contenders. Handley Page Halifax The aircraft was lost during its first mission to attack the Tirpitz.

The Halifax bomber missions Ron Houghton took part in as a pilot were mainly raids over targets in the Ruhr Valley in Germany, chiefly munition factories and fuel dumps. One particular mission ...

The Halifax bomber, with the callsign A, simply vanished. The operations book from RAF North Creake, between Fakenham and Wells-next-the-Sea, records: “171/’A’ is missing, nothing being ...

Thursday 6 June is exactly 80 years since the Allied troops landed on the beaches on Normandy in the first stage of reclaiming Europe from the Nazis Though they were expecting an invasion, German ...

When the D-Day invasion landed over 150,000 allied troops on the beaches of Normandy, France, things would have looked a lot ...

Key takeaways from the article: The Avro Lancaster, Vickers Wellington, and de Havilland Mosquito were important and widely ...

AN aviation museum in Balcombe is marking the anniversary of a crashed World War Two plane by running its restored engine to visitors. The Wings Museum acquired one of four Rolls Royce Merlin Mk ...

It was the Allies' first glider-borne attack of World War Two, but it ended in disaster when three of its four aircraft crashed ... Freshman as part of a new WW2 trail. Mr Tocher said the mission ...