History and Operations
Articles, papers, memories about the Spitfire, people who flew it and World War II in the air
Added during 2011
2011-03-30
Advanced Landing Ground (ALG) – B.88 near the town of Heesch, in Noord-Brabant, the southern part of Holland, was the 88th airfield on the ...
2011-03-23
Here is one of those wartime photographs which at first glance raise more questions than answers. What we have here is a very anonymous photo-reconnaissance Spitfire, unidentified machine of an unidentified unit...
2011-03-07
Last weekend marked the 75th Anniversary of the Spitfire. On 5 March 1936, the yet unnamed prototype of Mitchell’s elegant new fighter took off ...
2011-01-28
An entirely new Spitfire squadron is to be formed in Enstone, Oxfordshire...
Added during 2010
2010-10-12
6 October 1940 Even under the best of circumstances, fighter operations of the 1940 would be a highly challenging business. Complexity of aircraft built ...
2010-10-05
30 September Monday, 30 September saw the last major daylight attack against London. Before noon, the Germans sent two large formations of between 200 ...
2010-10-01
27 September 1940 Seasalter is a small village located on the north coast of Kent, facing the Isle of Sheppey and the estuary of ...
2010-09-24
17 September 1940 On 17 September, following the decisive air battle over London and the South of England two days previously, Hitler summoned a ...
2010-09-16
15 September 1940. The weather was fine over south-eastern England on 15 September – commemorated annually ever since as the Battle of Britain Day.
2010-09-15
Describing the events of 15 September 1940, this letter by Sergeant Pilot G. D. Bushell of No. 213 Squadron, RAF provides a first-hand account of the grand air battle of that day.
