Articles Tagged with "People"
Added in March 2012
2012-03-12
F/Lt Richard Jones joined No.64 Spitfire Squadron at Kenley in late July 1940. He was involved in heavy fighting over the Channel during the ...
Added in February 2012
2012-02-24
Among a handful of people which came to be intimately coupled with the development of the Spitfire is Jeffrey Quill, a RAF officer who ...
2012-02-22
A few weeks ago I was pleasantly surprised to receive an email containing a unique photos of various Spitfires. You can image my surprise when I found out that these were sent personally by one of the surviving Battle of Britain pilots...
2012-02-11
Desperately in need of modern fighters, France took a keen interest in the Spitfire as early as 1939. A single Spitfire Mk I was ...
2012-02-10
Vladimir Urbanek sent us his brand new drawing entitled “RAF Duty”, showing another Spitfire of No. 312 (Czechoslovak) Squadron. The scene depicts one of ...
Added during 2011
2011-12-23
In October 2011, a group of amateur aviation historians have unearthed the wreckage of a Spitfire in Northern France near the village of Hardifort. Its discovery was accidental: a film crew making a World War Two documentary was excavating what they believed was the wreckage of a downed Czech aircraft when they realised that they came across a different crash site...
2011-12-16
On Friday, December 2, 2011, Henry Lafont, the last veteran among the 13 French fighter pilots who participated in the Battle of Britain, passed ...
2011-12-09
Events commemorate death of World War II aviator and poet John Gillespie Magee, US citizen and RCAF fighter pilot who is said to have been inspired to his most famous verse after flying a high-altitude test flight in a Spitfire.
2011-12-07
Dad and the ride from Pearl Harbor – Bennington Banner Dad and the ride from Pearl Harbor Bennington Banner Even at that age, I ...
2011-11-26
Recognition for Wirral Spitfire pilot shot down in Battle of Britain -- Benson Spitfire Guardian rededicated to pilot -- and more news...
