History and Operations
Battle of Britain
Added during 2010
2010-08-19
12 August, 1940 By the beginning of August, concentration of Luftwaffe forces in France had been fully accomplished, creating prerequisites for the next phase ...
2010-08-12
4 August 1940 In the late afternoon of 4 August 1940, Polish pilot Witold Urbanowicz arrived by car in front of the officers’ mess ...
2010-08-03
3 August 1940 During the first phase of the air battle in July, Dowding’s Fighter Command, although desperately short of pilots, had beaten the ...
2010-07-24
24 July 1940 Margate was a seaside town which for over a century had attracted crowds of Londoners by its wide beaches and amusement facilities. In the morning of ...
2010-07-23
19 June 1940 In the early afternoon hours of 19 June, No. 141 Squadron was sent out from Hawkinge to intercept a formation of ...
2010-07-22
22 July 1940 One of the legends of the Battle of Britain is that of the Home Guard – “Dads’ Army”, a force of ...
2010-07-16
12-16 July 1940 At Duxford, the largest and best equipped RAF station in No. 12 Group, the Czechs arrived. A new fighter squadron was ...
2010-07-14
13-14 June On these days, one could sit all day on top of the medieval walls of the Dover Castle and watch the steam ...
2010-07-12
10-11 July 1940 10 July 1940 is today recognized as the date when the Battle of Britain officially began. Or did it? Looking through ...
2010-07-06
5 July 1940. About the rise of heavily-armed fighters and the difficult development of a cannon-armed Spitfire.
