News correspondent Ed Murrow reports on what may be "Britain's first line of defence", an airfield on the south-east coast from where RAF fighter planes are dispatched to Dunkirk. He talks to some ...

2,945 RAF aircrew - now celebrated as "The Few" - held off repeated attacks from Germany's Luftwaffe over the skies of ...

Jack Waterfall, 75, from Ely, Cambridgeshire, who organised the event, had never heard of the battle until he was researching his uncle, who died while serving in the RAF in 1940. The event is ...

The United Kingdom is a country that owes its survival to many great aviation heroes of the Second World War. The Royal Air ...

Photo: A RAF fighter squadron 'scrambles' after receiving ... 6 months from Germany's advance through Europe, to the end of 1940 and Britain's continued resistance to German bombing.

A man is searching for the relatives of a Carlisle RAF Pilot Officer who was killed in a plane crash in North Norfolk in 1940. Archie Kerr of Long Sowerby lost his life aged just 19 in November ...

BBC Archive: Originally broadcast 2 June 1940. 1940: News - RAF fighter planes dispatched to Dunkirk. Video, 00:01:231940: News - RAF fighter planes dispatched to Dunkirk Up Next. 1978 ...