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Robert Stanford Tuck (2,692 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

gallantry. His combat successes continued into July and August as the Battle of Britain gathered pace, although he himself was forced to bail out on 18 August

Sailor Malan (2,144 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

the Royal Air Force (RAF) who led No. 74 Squadron RAF during the Battle of Britain. He finished his fighter career in 1941 with twenty-seven destroyed

No. 249 Squadron RAF (969 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

unit fought in the Battle of Britain. The only Victoria Cross awarded to an RAF Fighter Command pilot during the Battle of Britain, was won by James Brindley

Exeter Airport (1,982 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

RAF Exeter was an important RAF Fighter Command airfield during the Battle of Britain. RAF Exeter was used by the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF)

Freedom from Fear (painting) (1,186 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

commissioning of the series. It had originally been created to depict the Battle of Britain, but went unpublished by The Saturday Evening Post. The United States

Helmuth Ellgaard (423 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Luftwaffe he participated in many raids as a journalist, including the Battle of Britain in 1940. His works were published in the renowned weekly magazine

Sidney Robertson-Rodger (616 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

principally for his painting Bombers Escorted by Fighters on a Daylight Sweep over the Channel depicting the Battle of Britain. He was also known as

Hugh Riddle (346 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

2009) was a World War II Royal Air Force fighter pilot during the Battle of Britain. Hugh Joseph Riddle, known as "Huseph", was born in London on 24 May

Olive Snell (594 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

military subjects, including Battle of Britain pilots, as an unofficial war artist attached to the Royal Air Force. Her 1943 painting of pilots of 610 Squadron

Battle (3,556 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Some prominent examples of this would be the Battle of the Atlantic, Battle of Britain, and the Battle of France, all in World War II. Wars and military

Geoffrey Page (3,682 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Force who served during the Second World War. He participated in the Battle of Britain, and was shot down. He was badly burned when his aircraft was destroyed

Second Great Fire of London (1,324 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

haunted Rosoman for the rest of his life. He immortalised the scene in his painting A House Collapsing on Two Firemen, Shoe Lane, London, EC4. William Sansom

Bentley Priory (2,755 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

have been approved and construction commenced. The Bentley Priory Battle of Britain Trust has secured part of the building to be used as a museum and

Walter Bayes (1,129 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

painting on the subject of the air raids that had resulted in damage to parts of Buckingham Palace in 1940 and 1941. The resulting painting, Battle of

Stefan Knapp (1,006 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Lasdun. He also painted a mural for the Warsaw metro entitled The Battle of Britain. Between 1954 and 1968 he held at least one exhibition each year,

Ray Holmes (2,055 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

during the Second World War who is best known for taking part in the Battle of Britain. He became famous for an apparent notable act of bravery in which

Cuthbert Orde (2,390 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

is best known for his war art, especially his portraits of Allied Battle of Britain pilots. Orde was born on 18 December 1888 in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk

Gerald Coles (300 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

assisted Hugh Easton on many stained glass commissions, including the Battle of Britain memorial window in Westminster Abbey. Other commissions took him overseas

Stavanger Airport, Forus (2,356 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

time for the Battle of Britain to commence. Luftflotte 5 had a group at the airbase. From 10 April the Luftwaffe needed fifty men for painting, which a contractor

Battle of Racławice (637 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

of the RAF's 303 (Polish) Fighter Squadron, which took part in the Battle of Britain. The Battle of Racławice is commemorated on the Tomb of the Unknown

British anti-invasion preparations of the Second World War (13,142 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

became a vital piece of Britain's defensive capabilities during the Battle of Britain. By the start of the war, around 20 Chain Home stations had been built

Laura Knight (5,428 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

the original on 4 January 2018. Matt Brosnan. "7 Artworks of the Battle of Britain". Imperial War Museum. Retrieved 15 October 2016. Arifa Akbar (8 April

St Lawrence Ground (5,174 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

beer named Spitfire. The Supermarine Spitfire is associated with the Battle of Britain, much of which was fought in the skies above the county in 1940 and

Charles Cundall (865 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

subjects throughout Britain, worked on a major painting of the commemoration ceremony of the Battle of Britain for several months in 1943 and visited Quebic

No. 41 Squadron RAF (13,566 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Spitfire fighters, and saw action over Dunkirk and the during the Battle of Britain in the early years of the war. Combat operations were flown from Britain

Robert Towne (2,775 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

'Battle of Britain' for GK Films". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 10 August 2023. Fleming, Mike Jr. (4 October 2011). "GK Films Plans WWII 'Battle Of

Paddy Finucane (9,595 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Thomas Young Gilroy (1898–1985), hangs in the Battle of Britain Hall, Royal Air Force Museum, Hendon. The painting was commissioned after the war by public

No. 452 Squadron RAAF (1,919 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

the Battle of Britain, as were the flight leaders: Flight Lieutenants Paddy Finucane, an Irish flying ace who had also flown in the Battle of Britain, and

Elva Blacker (1,145 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

programme Antiques Roadshow, to mark the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Britain, by her great-niece. General Sir Jeremy Blacker was her nephew. "Blacker

Exeter Blitz (991 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

on Exeter took place on 7 August 1940, in the early stages of the Battle of Britain. A lone raider dropped a stick of five bombs on the St Thomas area

List of camoufleurs (1,232 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

to us both as fighting a war, we decided that perhaps our knowledge of painting should find some application in camouflage." Trevelyan later admitted that

Baedeker Blitz (2,492 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

fighter Big Wing formation People Organisation Campaigns and operations Battle of Britain The Blitz Baedeker raids Operation Steinbock Operation Crossbow Operation

Berghof (residence) (2,972 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Hitler's Headquarters", After the Battle, No. 19, Special Edition, Battle of Britain International Ltd, 1977, London, p. 2. Eberle, Henrik; Uhl, Matthias

Nazi plunder (8,492 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

currency, cultural items of great significance were stolen, including paintings, ceramics, books, and religious treasures. Many of the artworks looted

Vivian Pitchforth (618 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Intelligencer, 5 September 1932. Matt Brosnan. "7 Artworks of the Battle of Britain". Imperial War Museum. Retrieved 15 October 2016. Imperial War Museum

James Coward (RAF officer) (1,048 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

destruction of a German Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter aircraft. During the Battle of Britain, on 31 August 1940, his squadron was scrambled from RAF Fowlmere to

Aeronautica Imperialis (1,181 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

(the setting for Abnett's Gaunt's Ghosts novel series). It has a Battle of Britain flavour; many of the concepts elucidated in the Aeronautica rules

Feliks Topolski (1,165 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Topolski became an official war artist and painted scenes of the Battle of Britain and other battlefields. In 1941, Topolski travelled to Russia alongside

Sikorski's tourists (607 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Painting on a Hurricane of the Polish 303 Squadron during the Battle of Britain indicating 126 German airplanes shot down by the plane's pilots, some

Gerald Laing (1,145 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Ogilvie-Laing He grew up during World War II and experienced the Battle of Britain as young boy. He was educated at Berkhamsted School, an independent

Fire ship (2,743 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Littlefield. ISBN 9780842028684. Retrieved 6 March 2017. Kindell, Don. "Battle of Britain, September 1940". naval-history.net. Retrieved December 20, 2023.

John Yale (aviation artist) (1,482 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

fighters of the Air Force, who flew over London on Battle of Britain Day in 1940. The Battle of Britain featured the Royal Air Force defending Britain against

Leonard Rosoman (1,034 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

National Fire Service, and began making paintings based on his experiences as a fire-fighter during the Battle of Britain and the Blitz in London. One of these

Museum of Richmond (2,832 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

founding, in Richmond, of the first Star and Garter Home 2015–16 The Battle of Britain 75 years on – Richmond Remembers the Second World War 2014–15 1914–1918

Gremlin (4,809 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

several years, with later recollections of it having been told by Battle of Britain Spitfire pilots as early as 1940. This concept of gremlins was popularized

Alfred Egerton Cooper (7,380 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Marshal of the Royal Air Force Lord Portal (1893–1971) (c.1943), Battle of Britain pilot Group Captain Clair Grece, DFC, MA (Oxon) (1945), Sir Barnes

Trent Park (2,964 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

to extract information from captured German officers. During the Battle of Britain in 1940, captured Luftwaffe pilots were held initially at Trent Park

Hampshire Yeomanry (6,947 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

the Battle of Britain began, there were 44 HAA guns deployed in the Portsmouth GDA. The regiment was heavily engaged throughout the Battle of Britain. A

Isle of Wight (11,529 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

through the ages, having faced the Spanish Armada and weathered the Battle of Britain. Being rural for most of its history, its Victorian fashionability

Brighton railway works (2,856 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

built more than 100 Bulleid light pacifics of the West Country and Battle of Britain classes. The works also constructed the boilers and tenders for the

Winston Churchill (22,979 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Weygand called the "Battle of France" is over. I expect that the Battle of Britain is about to begin. Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this

Cloudbase (1,610 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

developing the series in 1966, Gerry Anderson remembered that during the Battle of Britain the RAF had found it difficult to counter the Luftwaffe due to the

Much Hadham (1,489 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

adorned with two sculptures by Henry Moore. Peter Townsend, a noted Battle of Britain pilot later romantically linked to Princess Margaret, married his

List of New Zealand military personnel (3,093 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

amphibian aircraft for rescuing downed British pilots during the Battle of Britain Leslie Andrew - senior officer who served with the 2NZEF in Greece

Berry Pomeroy Castle (2,399 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

(1942), set in late 1940 during the start of the Blitz after the Battle of Britain, imagined as still being occupied by the descendants of the original

David Gentleman (2,780 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

commemorating Shakespeare, Churchill, Darwin, British Ships, Concorde, the Battle of Britain, the Battle of Hastings, the BBC, Good King Wenceslas, The Twelve

Judy Pickard (906 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Swainson, Richard (23 March 2016). "Judy Pickard helped win the Battle of Britain". Waikato Times. Retrieved 13 December 2022. "E.J. Kain's DFC". Evening

1978 in film (2,919 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Down James Remar – On the Yard Jean Reno – The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting Eric Roberts – King of the Gypsies Diana Scarwid – Pretty Baby Gary Sinise

7th (City of London) Battalion, London Regiment (7,558 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Paul's Association, the Third Regiment of Loyal London Volunteers and a painting of the Duke of Clarence and Avondale presented by King George V. These

War novel (3,444 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Guernica, was bombed by the Nazi Germany's Luftwaffe. It inspired the painting Guernica by Pablo Picasso. For a critical overview of the different Vietnam

Wanstead House (1,890 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

& Fowkes, Reginald L. Epping Forest: Then and Now. Published by Battle of Britain Prints International Ltd., 1986. Wikimedia Commons has media related

1882 (3,776 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

24 – Hugh Dowding, commander of the RAF Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain (d. 1970) April 29 – Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman, Dutch artist, printer

Military history of France during World War II (21,725 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

June 17 "Airmen from France who took part in the Battle of Britain". Friends of the Battle Of Britain Monument. "The Airmen's Stories - Adjutant E F M

Airplane (6,348 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

military strategies of the period, such as the German Blitzkrieg, The Battle of Britain, and the American and Japanese aircraft carrier campaigns of the Pacific

Runcorn, Queensland (2,264 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Duke of Edinburgh Scheme, as well as raising horses and painting scenes from the Battle of Britain.[citation needed] Australian Bureau of Statistics (28

William Walton (8,032 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

1962). He was commissioned to compose a score for the 1969 film Battle of Britain, but the film company rejected most of his score, replacing it with

List of museums in London (1,321 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Barnet North Local Local history, costumes, domestic items, lace Battle of Britain Bunker Uxbridge Hillingdon West History Museum and restored underground

Fantasia (1940 film) (15,753 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

on the night went to the British War Relief Society following the Battle of Britain. Ticket demand was so great that eight telephone operators were employed

John Platt (artist) (856 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Art for nine years until 1919. Platt quickly developed his skills in oil painting, watercolours, woodcuts and engraved woodblocks and held his first exhibition

Joseph Gray (painter) (1,560 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

warnings, witnessing scenes which he would later immortalise in the Battle of Britain etchings series. During this time Gray's works still helped raise

Michael Sandle (1,222 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

every midday. Sandle also worked on an unrealised project for the Battle of Britain Monument with Theo Crosby and Pedro Guedes in 1987. The plans for

Emsworth (2,728 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

used as a Royal Air Force station, playing a role in defence in the Battle of Britain. The north of Emsworth at this time was used for growing flowers and

German bombing of Rotterdam (5,017 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

1st Alps Haddock Force Britain Kanalkampf Adlertag The Hardest Day Battle of Britain Day Sea Lion 1941–1943 Cerberus Donnerkeil Baedeker Blitz Commando

Harold Ridley (ophthalmologist) (2,416 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

early years of World War II, when he saw injured pilots from the Battle of Britain. In the middle - to end-years of the war he was with the R.A.M.C (Royal

Avro Lancaster (15,106 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Lancasters known to exist, two are airworthy: PA474 is operated by the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, based at RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire, UK; FM213

George Rudolf Hanbury Fielding (824 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Bari-based Balkan Air Force asking them to show more of the "spirit of the Battle of Britain and less of the Bottle of Bari". The lack of success of the mission

Capture of Kufra (1,902 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

of the Scorpion. Stroud: Sutton. ISBN 0-7509-2481-0. Peter McIntyre, Salt Lake at Kufra Oasis, 1941–1943 (Painting) Real location of Kayouge rendezvous

Westminster Abbey (13,067 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

with a stained-glass window dedicated to those who died in the 1940 Battle of Britain. The RAF Chapel was the original burial site of Oliver Cromwell in

Bruce Ingram (726 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Journals of the Stuart Times (1936) Ingram organised and paid for the Battle of Britain Roll of Honour to the losses of the Royal Air Force which stands in

Battle of Gondar (1,155 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

of Luxembourg Netherlands Belgium France Battle of Zaoyang–Yichang Battle of Britain North Africa West Africa British Somaliland Hundred Regiments Offensive

Aerial bombing of cities (7,586 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

"The War In France And Flanders 1939–1940" Overy, Richard, "The Battle of Britain: The Myth and the Reality", p. 91 "Britain bombs Berlin (pictures

Henry VII Chapel (2,225 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

the men of the Royal Air Force and allied forces who died in the Battle of Britain between July and October 1940. Princess Amelia of Great Britain Anne

Organization of the Luftwaffe (1933–1945) (10,163 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

formation. This flexibility became apparent to the RAF during the Battle of Britain. Luftwaffe controlled the bulk of German anti-aircraft artillery (commonly

Adolf Hitler (19,001 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

failed to defeat the Royal Air Force in what became known as the Battle of Britain. By the end of September, Hitler realised that air superiority for

July 10 (5,518 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

against British maritime convoys begin, in the leadup to initiating the Battle of Britain. 1941 – Jedwabne pogrom: Massacre of Polish Jews living in and near

Bombing of Lübeck in World War II (2,416 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Ploiești Soviet Union Gorky Leningrad Minsk Stalingrad United Kingdom Battle of Britain Baedeker Blitz The Blitz Barrow-in-Furness Bath Belfast Birmingham

Museum of Transport and Technology (2,199 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

the 'Sir Keith Park Memorial Airfield', named after Keith Park, the Battle of Britain and Battle of Malta hero, MOTAT's aviation collection is on a separate

Love on a Branch Line (TV series) (1,294 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

been working since 1940 when the Hall was commandeered during the Battle of Britain. The Office has been overlooked for closure for a number of years

Hendon (4,099 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

defence of a city. It is believed that the first casualty in the Battle of Britain was an RAF Hurricane pilot from Hendon. It closed to flying in 1968

Hugh B. Cott (2,648 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

including countershading. For example, in August 1940, with the Battle of Britain imminent, he painted two rail-mounted coastal guns, one in conventional

Captain Tom Moore (8,839 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

birthday, a Hawker Hurricane and a Spitfire from the Royal Air Force's Battle of Britain Memorial Flight performed a flypast over Moore's house. In the afternoon

Rambai Barni (1,999 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Prince Jirasakdi, would later serve as a RAF fighter pilot during the Battle of Britain. He died on duty in 1942.) Due to active bombing by the German Luftwaffe

Chartwell (8,972 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Churchill's deepening interest in painting; "Sickert arrived on Friday night and we worked very hard at various paintings ... I am really thrilled ... I

Vera Lynn (7,295 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Army, the Royal Navy, and the Royal British Legion, as well as the Battle of Britain Spitfire flypast, which followed the cortege and passed over Ditchling

British official war artists (2,406 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

commissioned artists to make portraits of its personnel, including Battle of Britain pilots, as well as of the machinery of war – the aircraft – not with

Heritage Minutes (2,435 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

one of the main fighters flown by Canadian and Allied airmen in the Battle of Britain. This Heritage Minute follows Elsie MacGill in her role as chief engineer

Heritage Minutes (2,435 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

one of the main fighters flown by Canadian and Allied airmen in the Battle of Britain. This Heritage Minute follows Elsie MacGill in her role as chief engineer

Jersey (14,086 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

(Christmas festival), La Faîs'sie d'Cidre (cidermaking festival), the Battle of Britain air display, Weekender Music Festival, food festivals, and parish

Thomas Cantrell Dugdale (622 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

War Museum. Retrieved 2 June 2016. Matt Brosnan. "7 Artworks of the Battle of Britain". Imperial War Museum. Retrieved 15 October 2016. "Artist: Amy Katherine

Poland (23,616 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Campaigns and Netherlands and are particularly remembered for the Battle of Britain and Battle of Monte Cassino. Polish intelligence operatives proved

Warlingham (2,804 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

century. During the Second World War, Warlingham was witness to the Battle of Britain, much of which was fought in the skies above this part of Surrey.

Liverpool John Lennon Airport (4,007 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

what is thought to be the fastest air-to-air combat "kill" in the Battle of Britain and possibly of all time. Flight Lieutenant Denys Gillam took off

Henry Allingham (4,859 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

guest of honour at a luncheon at the college. During the day the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight performed a flypast which was followed by an aerobatic

History of Europe (22,789 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Countries, and France. Britain defeated Germany's air attacks in the Battle of Britain. Hitler's goal was to control Eastern Europe but the attack on the

6th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment (7,636 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

CO on 6 July. Although most of the Luftwaffe air raids during the Battle of Britain and the early part of The Blitz concentrated on London and the South

Tower Bridge (6,424 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

A Short Sunderland of No. 201 Squadron RAF moored at Tower Bridge during the 1956 commemoration of the Battle of Britain

Swastika (17,957 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

University Press, 2017), p. 28. Prynne, Miranda (14 April 2014). "Battle of Britain hero's medals to go under the hammer". Archived from the original

Spanish Armada (12,653 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

again faced a substantial danger of foreign invasion. During the Battle of Britain RAF fighter pilots attracted world attention as the "new Elizabethans"

Netherlands in World War II (9,069 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

German war efforts. In any case, despite the British victory in the Battle of Britain, many considered a German victory a realistic possibility and that

January 1913 (7,157 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Unwin, British air force officer, noted fighter pilot during the Battle of Britain, commander of the No. 84 Squadron post-World War II, recipient of

John O'Brian (2,575 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

2020. Langan, F.F. (May 15, 2007). "Peter O'Brian: One of the Last Battle of Britain Pilots". Globe and Mail. Elizabeth Lumley, Canadian Who's Who (Toronto:

White South Africans (7,034 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

World War ace fighter pilot Squadron Leader John Dering Nettleton VC, Battle of Britain Major Oswald Reid VC, 1st World War Captain Clement Robertson VC,

Shrewsbury (16,863 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

of 21. He was the RAF's most successful British-born pilot in the Battle of Britain. One Victoria Cross recipient is known to have lived in Shrewsbury;

Brian Urquhart (1,901 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

part of the coastal defence forces in and around Dover during the Battle of Britain. He later transferred to the 1st Airborne Division as an Intelligence

Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima (7,256 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Felix de Weldon. De Weldon was an Austrian immigrant schooled in European painting and sculpture. De Weldon could not take his eyes off the photo. In its

Eudoxis (684 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

huddled together in fear in London's many air raid shelters during the Battle of Britain. Rick "Raz" Raczko (bass) and Stephane Rioux (drums) founded Eudoxis

Guinea Pig Club (2,563 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

the Royal Canadian Air Force and at Canadian expense. During the Battle of Britain, most of the patients at East Grinstead were fighter pilots, but by

Scotland in the modern era (12,397 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

invention of radar by Robert Watson-Watt, which was invaluable in the Battle of Britain, as was the leadership at RAF Fighter Command of Air Chief Marshal

Blockade of Germany (1939–1945) (30,894 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

cross-channel guns shelled the Kentish coast in the opening stages of the Battle of Britain. On 17 August, following his inability to convince the British to

Battle of Moscow (8,060 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

of Luxembourg Netherlands Belgium France Battle of Zaoyang–Yichang Battle of Britain North Africa West Africa British Somaliland Hundred Regiments Offensive

Radar (11,751 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

vital advance information that helped the Royal Air Force win the Battle of Britain; without it, significant numbers of fighter aircraft, which Great

Schweinfurt (5,636 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

beginning of the 15th century and the baptismal font, with its original painting of 1367. The Ebracher Hof is a renaissance building, acquired in 1431 from

Hampton, London (11,231 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

houses in Hampton, and public shelters constructed, prior to the Battle of Britain. The first bomb to fall on Hampton fell the night of 24 August 1940

Battle of Crete (14,457 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

regain prestige after their defeat by the Royal Air Force (RAF) in the Battle of Britain the year before, may also have played a role in their thinking, especially

Mi Amigo memorial (1,490 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The ten aircraft involved were, in order: Dakota ZA947 of the RAF's Battle of Britain Memorial Flight (flying from RAF Coningsby) MC-130J Commando II and

Handley Page Victor (9,409 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

(450 kg) bombs or 1× Yellow Sun free-fall nuclear bomb A 1964 Gerhard Richter painting titled XL 513 depicts Victor K.2, which was lost in a 1976 accident at

Derby Litchurch Lane Works (3,364 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

John Murray Gardner, Laura (8 November 2011). "Unsung hero of the Battle of Britain". Institution of Mechanical Engineers. "August : The Railways Act

Hamburg (14,449 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Ploiești Soviet Union Gorky Leningrad Minsk Stalingrad United Kingdom Battle of Britain Baedeker Blitz The Blitz Barrow-in-Furness Bath Belfast Birmingham

Canterbury Roman Museum (1,872 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

explains the end of the Roman occupation of the town, and the time-view painting displays Roman Canterbury as it was in later periods. An interactive screen

Enemy at the Door (545 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Winston (1981). The War in the Channel Islands: Then and Now. London: Battle of Britain Prints International. ISBN 978-0900913228. Grandle, Jane (8 April

Bombing of Stuttgart in World War II (3,672 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Stuttgart on 7 October 1943. Schaefer used the date in the watercolor painting Marshalling Lancasters Against Stuttgart, 7 October 1943, though he most

Barrow-in-Furness (15,807 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

from the original on 28 September 2011. Retrieved 2 May 2010. "The Battle of Britain – Diary – 2 September 1940". RAF. 16 February 2005. Archived from

Evacuation of the Louvre museum art collection during World War II (732 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

sealed to keep the humidity constant (the official who accompanied the painting arrived nearly asphyxiated from the lack of circulation in the sealed vehicle)

Battle of the Sittang Bend (2,402 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

making an armed patrol deep in flooded paddy fields during the battle. Painting by Leslie Cole A Supermarine Spitfire Mark VIII of No 607 Squadron is prepared

Branse Burbridge (4,358 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

France. RAF Fighter Command had prevailed against the Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain but British cities were suffering in The Blitz—a sustained aerial

India in World War II (6,261 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

of Luxembourg Netherlands Belgium France Battle of Zaoyang–Yichang Battle of Britain North Africa West Africa British Somaliland Hundred Regiments Offensive

War film (10,677 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

all-star epics filmed in Europe such as Battle of the Bulge (1965), Battle of Britain (1969), The Battle of Neretva (1969), Midway (1976), and A Bridge

R. J. Mitchell (5,823 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

connection to Reginald Mitchell. Southampton City Art Gallery holds an oil painting of Mitchell, painted in 1942 by Frank Ernest Beresford. Mitchell was by

History of Swansea (3,375 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

1822 the Cambrian made fine porcelain with excellent overglaze enamel painting, mostly of flowers. Examples of Swansea pottery can be seen today at the

List of honours of Winston Churchill (7,193 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Winston Churchill. In September 1947, the Southern Railway named a Battle of Britain class steam locomotive, No. 21C151, after him. Churchill was offered

Operation Barbarossa (21,155 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

of Luxembourg Netherlands Belgium France Battle of Zaoyang–Yichang Battle of Britain North Africa West Africa British Somaliland Hundred Regiments Offensive

HMS Terror (I03) (6,094 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Books. ISBN 978-1-84415-677-1. Wynn, Kenneth G. (2015). Men of the Battle of Britain: a Biographical Dictionary of the Few. Havertown: Pen & Sword Books

George Orwell (24,326 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Orwell managed to recruit Fredric Warburg to his unit. During the Battle of Britain he used to spend weekends with Warburg and his new Zionist friend

Manly Wade Wellman (4,553 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

where the family stayed in Torrington Square (obliterated during the Battle of Britain). When he was still a young boy, his family moved to the United States

Beaney House of Art and Knowledge (2,437 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Frederick de Zoete (1850-1932) in 1906. The museum originally had a Van Dyck painting of James I's daughter and a Burne-Jones Wheel of Fortune in oils. It has

Frank Capra (9,821 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

War (1942), The Nazis Strike (1942), Divide and Conquer (1943), The Battle of Britain (1943), The Battle of Russia (1943), The Battle of China (1944), and

List of British films of 2016 (4,069 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

June 2018. "On The Road". Lorton Entertainment. Retrieved 12 March 2018. "Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse". Exhibition On Screen. Retrieved 7

List of Antiques Roadshow episodes (6,734 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Special (10 May 2020) The Best of the Summer (6 September 2020) The Battle of Britain and the Blitz (13 September 2020) The Best of the Summer, part 2 (27

Blackout/All Clear (5,655 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

field to find a bus, they witness in the sky the beginning of the Battle of Britain. Alf (who fancies himself a plane spotter) and Binnie are delighted

Social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom (15,512 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Archived from the original on 30 April 2020. Retrieved 24 July 2020. "Battle Of Britain Commemorations To Take Place Online". forces.net. 7 April 2020. Archived

List of Old Shirburnians (1,600 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

KCMG, WW1 Commander Flight Lieutenant Carl Raymond Davis DFC RAF, Battle of Britain flying ace General Sir Charles Monro Bt GCB CMG GCSI, Commander in

Epping Forest (8,150 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Winston G, ed. (1986). Epping Forest then and now: An anthology. Battle of Britain Prints International. ISBN 978-0900913396. Qvist, Alfred (1971). Epping

Philip Bujak (2,597 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

This painting was the second of what was a commitment to restore two such artworks a year and followed the restoration of the iconic Battle of Britain painting

Philippine resistance against Japan (10,971 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

of Luxembourg Netherlands Belgium France Battle of Zaoyang–Yichang Battle of Britain North Africa West Africa British Somaliland Hundred Regiments Offensive

July 1917 (8,675 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

(d. 2009); Luigi Gorrini, Italian fighter pilot, flying ace in the Battle of Britain with 19 credited kills, recipient of the Gold Medal of Military Valour

Military history of Canada (27,477 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

abroad. These squadrons participated in key campaigns such as the Battle of Britain and the Combined Bomber Offensive over the European theatre. By the

Battle of Mersa Matruh (4,355 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Publications Branch. OCLC 504337535 – via New Zealand Electronic text Collection. Painting: The breakthrough, Minqar Qa'im, 27–28 June 1942 (Peter McIntyre)

Lockheed P-38 Lightning (18,796 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

earlier aircraft specifications based on experience gathered in the Battle of Britain and The Blitz. British displeasure with the Lockheed order came to

List of Royal Military College of Canada memorials (1,486 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Drocourt-Quéant, Canal du Nord. World War II battles: Battle of the Atlantic, Battle of Britain, Burma, Dieppe, Hong Kong, Lombardy Plain, Normandy. Active service

Eddie Rickenbacker (10,815 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

relentless air attacks" from the Luftwaffe's campaign during the Battle of Britain in 1940, writing: "Should these gallant British withstand the terrific

Bunce Court School (6,239 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

week) to evacuate when the area was determined to be too near the Battle of Britain to tolerate an entire school full of "enemy aliens", who were viewed

Hawker Tempest (10,269 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

speed, high altitude flight would be discovered during combat in the Battle of Britain, where the Spitfire's thinner wing gave it an advantage at higher

Love on a Branch Line (novel) (1,801 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

of Flamborough. The unit had been established in 1940 during the Battle of Britain when the ministry requisitioned the Earl's house, and has largely

Military history of Asian Americans (15,861 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Squadrons that served with the Royal Air Force shortly after the Battle of Britain; U.S. forces also provided logistic support through the cash and carry

Gabby Gabreski (5,051 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

that the unit began to receive. He closely followed reports on the Battle of Britain and the role played in it by Polish RAF squadrons, especially by the

Actions along the Matanikau (5,684 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

of Luxembourg Netherlands Belgium France Battle of Zaoyang–Yichang Battle of Britain North Africa West Africa British Somaliland Hundred Regiments Offensive

Bengal famine of 1943 (22,534 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

of Luxembourg Netherlands Belgium France Battle of Zaoyang–Yichang Battle of Britain North Africa West Africa British Somaliland Hundred Regiments Offensive

List of historical films set in Near Eastern and Western civilization (567 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

the German invasion of Poland during World War II Battle of Britain 1969 1940 The Battle of Britain The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and

Airborne Interception radar (5,284 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Introduction Survey of Radar, Part II (PDF). Air Ministry. 1946. The Battle of Britain; August - October 1940. Ministry of Information on behalf of the Air

Franz Stampfl (1,881 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Finest Hour, the source of figures given here. Patrick Bishop (2009) Battle of Britain: A Day-by-Day Chronicle Maier, Andreas (2022), Franz Stampfl: Genius

Sunderland Rifles (9,393 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Infantry) Searchlight Regiment, RA. During the early part of the Battle of Britain, German day and night air raids and mine laying began along the East

2018 in the United Kingdom (24,297 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

academic (University of Oxford). Tom Neil, 97, English fighter pilot (Battle of Britain), member of The Few. 12 July J. A. Bailey, 88, English cricketer and

Sissinghurst Castle Garden (12,961 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

tower. During the Second World War, Sissinghurst saw much of the Battle of Britain, which was mainly fought over the Weald and the English Channel. Nicolson's

German resistance to Nazism (23,760 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

of Luxembourg Netherlands Belgium France Battle of Zaoyang–Yichang Battle of Britain North Africa West Africa British Somaliland Hundred Regiments Offensive

November 1918 (11,648 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

officer, member of the No. 242 Squadron during the Battle of France and Battle of Britain in World War II, recipient of the Distinguished Flying Cross, in Edmonton

Timeline of events preceding World War II (7,650 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

of Luxembourg Netherlands Belgium France Battle of Zaoyang–Yichang Battle of Britain North Africa West Africa British Somaliland Hundred Regiments Offensive

History of South Africa (21,321 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

pilots served with distinction in the Royal Air Force during the Battle of Britain, including Group Captain Adolph "Sailor" Malan who led 74 Squadron

Battle of Edson's Ridge (8,508 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

of Luxembourg Netherlands Belgium France Battle of Zaoyang–Yichang Battle of Britain North Africa West Africa British Somaliland Hundred Regiments Offensive

History of the United Kingdom (29,705 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

achieve air supremacy but were defeated by the Royal Air Force in the Battle of Britain in late summer 1940. Japan declared war in December 1941, and quickly

History of Western civilization (30,810 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Hitler attempted to defeat the British using only air power. In the Battle of Britain, German bombers destroyed much of the British air force and many British

Liberation of France (20,316 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Review October 14, 2020 The Vulnerable Ferocity of Chaim Soutine: His painting process could seem like something between a mud-wrestling match and a fight

April 1917 (8,308 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Flying Cross and Distinguished Service Cross for actions during the Battle of Britain during World War II, in London (d. 1944, killed in a plane crash);

List of GURPS books (8,152 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Commonwealth forces. GURPS WWII: Their Finest Hour - Scenario detailing the Battle of Britain. GURPS WWII: Dogfaces - United States. GURPS WWII: Leyte Gulf - Scenario

Theo Crosby (3,548 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

refurbishment of the building); NMB Bank interiors, Amsterdam, 1983–7; Battle of Britain Monument (project, with Pedro Guedes and Michael Sandle), 1987; Barbican

United Kingdom commemorative stamps 2010–2019 (991 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Grenadier. Silk Pearce 514 2015.07.16 The 75th Anniversary of the Battle of Britain 1st Class: Pilots scramble to their Hurricanes, 1st Class: Supermarine

March 1918 (9,560 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

15 February 2018. Fredette, Raymond H., The Sky on Fire: The First Battle of Britain 1917–1918, New York: Harvest, 1976, ISBN 0-15-682750-6, pp. 192-193

May 1917 (9,380 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

British air force officer, commander of No. 92 Squadron during the Battle of Britain, recipient of the Distinguished Flying Cross and Distinguished Service

100th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (3,326 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

were some night raids on Scottish cities, the main action in the Battle of Britain and the early part of The Blitz was over Southern England and there

American women in World War II (4,452 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

chose more traditional female jobs such as sewing aircraft upholstery or painting radium on tiny measurements so that pilots could see the instrument panel

Great British Railway Journeys (1,453 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

end this journey, he travels inland to RAF Coningsby, home to the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight which maintains heritage aircraft in airworthy condition

October 1917 (9,367 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

ISBN 978-1-84342-641-7. Fredette, Raymond H., The Sky on Fire: The First Battle of Britain 1917–1918, New York: Harvest, 1976, ISBN 0-15-682750-6, pp. 135, 146-147

List of works by Terence Cuneo (47 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

at Bournemouth Shed view view Scene: British Railway rolling stock—Battle of Britain Class No.34051 Winston Churchill—flanked by Southern Railway rolling

List of Wild Cards characters (20,029 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

country. Once in Canada, he joined the RCAF, and later fought in the Battle of Britain, in the aftermath of one battle being offered tea by Beatrix Potter

Roy Campbell (poet) (13,871 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

wrote several similar poems in favour of the Allied cause. During the Battle of Britain, Campbell served as an Air Raid Precautions warden in London. During

List of Private Passions episodes (1995–1999) (285 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

co.uk. Retrieved 23 April 2017. Henry, Marilyn (28 March 2006). "Munch painting sought". Articles.latimes.ocm. Retrieved 23 April 2017. List of Private

List of film director–composer collaborations (43,558 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Calls (1954) The Colditz Story (1955) Charley Moon (1956) Ron Goodwin Battle of Britain (1969) Force 10 from Navarone (1978) John Barry Man in the Middle

List of places of interest in Essex (79 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

aerodrome established in 1916, which played an important role during the Battle of Britain in the Second World War, when it acted as an RAF station. It is now

Rolling stock of the Bluebell Railway (1,408 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

10-year rebuild from Barry condition. 34059 was the first rebuilt Battle of Britain Class locomotive to steam in preservation. After only 2 years of service

Clan Ostoja (Moscics) (12,088 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

(1910–1965) – major pilot of the Polish Air Force, participant in the Battle of Britain in the 609th RAF Fighter Squadron, captain (flight lieutenant) of

List of Equinox episodes (39,663 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

the Battle of Britain would survive the war; it took a year to train a British fighter pilot, and many pilots were not officers; the Battle of Britain Memorial

Timeline of London (20th century) (23,669 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

injury and inspect the damage. 15 September: Battle of Britain Day, the climax of the Battle of Britain, in which the Royal Air Force (RAF) resists a

List of 1960s films based on actual events (10,753 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

the life of Anne Boleyn Battle of Britain (1969) – British historical war film documenting the events of the Battle of Britain, when in the summer and

List of 2010s films based on actual events (28,045 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

group of Polish pilots of No. 303 Squadron RAF (Dywizjon 303) in the Battle of Britain in the Second World War I Can Only Imagine (2018) – Christian biographical

Varèse Sarabande albums discography (47,685 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Page VSD-6577 Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius - James Horner VSD-6578 Battle of Britain - Ron Goodwin / Sir William Walton VSD-6579 The Very Best of Peggy

Erich Raeder during World War II (13,693 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

because the Luftwaffe had failed to obtain air supremacy during the Battle of Britain, and the Royal Navy had significantly greater power over the German