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Joan Potts, WAAF who served with Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain – obituary She worked in the filter room, where inputs from radar units, Royal Observer Corps and patrols were analysed and passed to the plotting room Joan Potts Joan Potts, who has died aged 102, was an early volunteer for the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) in the Second World War; she served in a Fighter Command operations room during the Battle of Britain, before being commissioned and training others in fighter control. Born Winifred Joan Bishop on November 7 1918 in Winchester, she attended Palmers Gre...

An Australian fighter pilots committed a terrible act of violence against his baby son and now there is a push by that son to give him a war memorial.

A man whose WWII pilot father shot him in the head as a one-year-old has successfully campaigned for his late dad to get a $2,000 memorial plaque. The plate for WWII fighter pilot Robert Bungey, who took his own life shortly after shooting his baby son Richard, was granted by Holdfast council in Adelaide, South Australia. Councillor and family friend Rosemary Clancy opposed the plaque because she did not want to commemorate someone who had perpetrated domestic violence.   Richard Bungey's WWII fighter pilot father Robert (pictured) shot him in the head as a one-year-old, but has successfu...

JOHNNIE Johnson had just the right name for a Spitfire pilot. It simply oozed Old School derring-do. But that was just the start of it, because Johnson, son of a Leicestershire policeman, also possessed enormous courage, tactical nous and an invincibility that combined to make him the top scoring RAF fighter ace of the Second World War. Now two new books by acclaimed Worcester war historian Dilip Sarkar explore the man behind the legend and flesh out his amazing  aerial exploits. Johnnie Johnson’s Great Adventure (£19.95) and Johnnie Johnson 1942 War Diary: The War Diary of the Spitfi...

Move Over, Red Baron: This World War II Fighter Group Scored 500+ Kills The Thunderbolt’s extreme toughness and pulverizing firepower made it the obvious selection to send after the dwindling Luftwaffe on the ground. Here's What You Need To Remember: If his fate had been slightly different, Colonel Hubert Zemke could have been one of the most proficient flying aces in the Luftwaffe instead of the USAAF. On May 4, 1943, the U.S. Army Air Forces’ 56th Fighter Group was ordered to meet a formation of Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bombers returning from a run over Antwerp, Belgium. Colon...