The program to train World War II British pilots was launched in 1941 under the provisions of the Lend-Lease Act.

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Despite significant damage to the aircraft's propeller, the airframe remained intact, and both the pilot and passenger escaped unharmed. The aircraft is owned by Fly a Spitfire, a vintage flight ...

Picture: RAF Museum. Or, visitors can step into the shoes of an RAF pilot by trying on period uniforms and visit the museum’s lecture theatre that will feature original VE Day footage that ...

An eyewitness has revealed how a hero Spitfire pilot saved two lives with an emergency ... serving with the RAF. Its first operational sortie was flown on September 25, 1944.

Peter Knight was a Royal Navy radar mechanic (Richard Cannon/Blind Veterans UK/PA) RAF pilot Derrick Grubb ... Thomas Cuthbert (in naval uniform, standing front, centre left), beside his mother ...

RAF pilots such as Brian Latham, who had been sent to Texas, to learn to fly fighter planes, were among hundreds who "volunteered" for glider service. "If we didn't volunteer, we were told we'd ...