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Neil Flanigan MBE was born in Jamaica and travelled to England in 1943

Wilbur “Web” Riley was the first class president at John Handley High School. He was a member of the Cadet Battalion, played both football and basketball, and was the editor-in–chief

Each bomber aircraft is appraised for its contribution to military strategy, versatility in various roles, and comparative performance, encapsulating their enduring legacy in aerial warfare history.

World War II was rife with tactical air raids and the indiscriminate destruction of civilian lives. It took years for the Allied Powers and their supporters to have second thoughts about their vicious tactics.

What events happened on 13 February in history? We round up the events, births and deaths…

Susie Kearley speaks to one of the former cartographers at Hughenden Manor, a WWII military base whose secrets have, until recently, remained hidden from th ...

SIR – As a churchwarden for 16 years, and with 20 years’ experience as an immigration judge, I would like to offer my thoughts regarding the granting of asylum on the basis of “conversion” to Christianity (report, February 5). My experience of hearing appeals was that the process of assessing whether conversion had truly taken place was not only extraordinarily difficult, but also wide open to abuse. Any testing on the basis of knowledge of the Bible or of Christian t...

Masters of the Air, the new Second World War drama from Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks whipping up a storm on Apple TV+, has all the virtues of a great American TV production. It is lush, lavish, and well-scripted with believable characters and gripping storylines and the air battle scenes convey starkly the claustrophobia and corrosive fear inherent in going to war over Germany in a B-17 Flying Fortress.

Did the USAAF really have top-secret bombing tech? And did pilots really carry talismans into the air? We break down what’s true and what’s invention.

It was just over 80 years ago that the Yanks arrived in Britain, Americas youth flooding across the Atlantic in their hundreds of thousands. Great swathes of eastern England became Little Americas.