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Just four weeks after the St Pauls Cathedral fundraising drive was launched, it reached the milestone last night thanks to the incredible support of Mail readers and a string of donors.

The 27-year-old RAF Hurricane pilot was ambushed during a raid on enemy supply vessels at Le Touquet in northern France, on August 17, some 80 years ago.

Flight Lieutenant Peter Hood, Lancaster pilot shot down and captured during a raid over Nuremberg – obituary He was held in Stalag Luft I on the Baltic coast and after the German guards left on April 30 1945 the Soviet troops arrived to take over Peter Hook Flight Lieutenant Peter Hood, who has died aged 98, was the pilot of a Lancaster bomber shot down during a raid on Nuremberg which resulted in Bomber Command’s heaviest loss of the war. With the moon almost full, the bomber crews were n...

In the late fall of 1940, a troopship loaded with new pilots fresh out of primary flight school arrived in Vancouver, Canada. Porokoru Patapu “John” Pohe, first Māori trained as a pilot to serve in the Royal New Zealand Air Force, was amongst them. Captured as a prisoner of war, Pohe became involved with the plot for a mass escape from prison camp Stalag Luft III in Żagań, Poland. The 1963 epic film, “The Great Escape,” immortalized the event.

Families and younger fans can enjoy Flying Days: Showtime at IWM Duxford. - Credit: IWM Ahead of this weekends first Flying Day of the year, IWM Duxford has announced the final six air displays of the season. Tickets have gone on sale for the themed aerial display events at the historic Cambridgeshire airfield and a host of other events.  Flying days at Europe’s largest air museum this summer include events devoted to model aircraft and the Spitfire heroes of Squadron 19. A Supermarin...

MOST people who think about RAF Elvington during the Second World War associate it with the French heavy bomber squadrons that were based there…

Published: May 17, 2021 at 9:25 am It’s not much to look at: a cluster of 34 tin-roofed one-storey huts, hunkered down on the agricultural flatlands of Ryedale, halfway between York and the coast. The flags surmounting a redbrick tower in the middle of the complex snap in the wind beneath a blustery blue sky. Advertisement Eden Camp is an award-winning museum of the Second World War – ‘the people’s war’, as the museum calls it. There are exhibits here covering everything fro...

The 5 Greatest Bombers of All Time It takes a lot of work and money to make a good bomber. Here are some countries that pulled it off. Heres What You Need to Know: Not every warplane is first-in-class, but these ones stand above the pack. Bombers are the essence of strategic airpower. While fighters have often been important to air forces, it was the promise of the heavy bomber than won and kept independence for the United States Air Force and the Royal Air Force. At different points in time, ...

World War Two Hub Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people please be aware that this resource contains images and names of deceased persons. After the invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939, France and Great Britain declared war on Germany. Two days later, Australian Prime Minister Robert Menzies made the following radio announcement: “Fellow Australians, it is my melancholy duty to inform you officially that, in consequence of the persistence of Germany in her invasion of Poland, Great B...

One of Scotland’s best known cyclists has given his backing to a bike ride commemorating the daring Dambusters raid of the Second World War.