A bonfire society in East Sussex has been forced to explain why it burnt an effigy highlighting 100 years of the RAF. Hastings Borough Bonfire Society (HBBS) created the structure for its event ...
Superficially, Max Hastings’s Operation Biting is a typical ... parachute out at night through a hatch cut in the floor of the RAF Whitley bombers; the firefight with the Germans on the snowy ...
Tony Hill, a daring RAF photographic reconnaissance unit pilot ... Most of the men of C Company Second Parachute Battalion were Scots, Mr. Hastings writes, including “a commercial artist ...