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A new book chronicles how the RAF pilot fled across France, Switzerland and Spain after his Halifax bomber crashed ...
The 80th anniversary of the final Coastal Command patrol departing from Castle Archdale in 1945 was marked by a poignant tribute held on Tuesday, ...
Kate donned a white boucle jacket and wearing a five-strand pearl ... admits that her late grandad who served with the RAF in World War II played a major part in the plans. Minister for ...
In a touching moment, seven year old Louis brushed lint off father William's RAF uniform jacket ... Nearby were World War II veterans and Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, with crowds lining ...
One of these stations is the WW2 bomber station RAF Warboys just outside Huntington. Originally built in 1940 as a satellite station for RAF Wyton, it started life as a conventional bomber station.
It might seem hard to imagine now, with duty-free shops and modern passenger jets on the tarmac, but the airport's original use was as an RAF base in WW2. It was built in August 1942 by American ...
In September 1945, Corporal Margaret Higgins was alone on duty as a teleprinter operator with the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force when a historic message came through that World War II was over. She was ...
Oscar-winning costume designer Colleen Atwood had to make between 200 and 300 leather bomber jackets for AppleTV+’s World War II series “Masters ... the U.K., such as RAF Abingdon in ...
The U.S. Army Air Corps A-2 flight jacket was among the most iconic and treasured items of military apparel ever issued to American military personnel during World War II. Based upon “Bomber ...
Chennault was a U.S. major general who commanded the U.S. Army Air Forces in China during World War II and created the American ... and as high as $2,000 for an RAF bomber jacket.