Archive for May, 2010
Added during 2010
2010-05-29
27 May 1940 is today regarded as the beginning of Operation Dynamo - the final evacuation from Dunkirk. Ironically, Operation Dynamo very nearly ended on that day.
2010-05-27
14-31 May, 1940. Dramatic developments in London during May 1940 included the beginning of one of the most peculiar government structures in modern British history - the Ministry of Aircraft Production.
2010-05-27
The famours Minister of Aircraft Production in Churchill’s government, Lord Beaverbrook. An influential media tycoon, industrialist and millionaire, Beaverbrook did miracles to the output ...
2010-05-23
20-25 May, 1940. Faced with the choice of evacuation or total destruction of the BEF, the evacuation from Dunkirk begins. Spitfires join the air battle.
2010-05-21
13-19 May, 1940. The news from the front is uniformly bad. Churchill gives his first broadcast as Prime Minister to the British People, but the tone is that of a looming disaster...
2010-05-21
Battle of Britain Beacon - a massive BoB monument is proposed to be erected at the site of RAF Museum London site in Hendon.
2010-05-18
One of the many useful things in my new publishing system is the various article statistics. It tells me that this is my 600th article ...
2010-05-17
Battle of Britain Memorial Fight's silver-coloured Spitfire LF Mk. IX MK356 was forced to make an emergency landing at Cranwell, Lincolnshire...
2010-05-17
Action Stations! is a Kent-based company which offers air-to-air Spitfire displays over the Dover area. See how close you can get in this promotional video issued by the company.
2010-05-17
This video documents a formation display by a Spitfire and Hawk during RAF Valley Family Day in 2008.
