Real-life veterans of the battle depicted in Christopher Nolan ... caught on the beaches of the tiny French town in the middle of World War II with only the English Channel separating the men ...

Scrub back and forth below to see a Battle of Britain dogfight in action. WW2: Did the war change life for women? documentWW2: Did the war change life for women? When WW2 broke out, the women of ...

John “Paddy” Hemingway, an Irishman who served in the British Royal Air Force (RAF) during the 1940 Battle of Britain, died ...

Group Captain John "Paddy" Hemingway often referred to himself as the "Lucky Irishman" and, despite his sacrifice, often told audiences about moments he shared with his peers ...

Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk is a very solid film, but the classic French film that helped inspire his approach to the story ...

and Dunkirk (2017) audiences have been exposed to almost every facet of WW2 on the big screen. But you’d be unwise to believe everything these movies present as the truth. Sometimes films about ...

The 105-year-old veteran was the last known survivor of the Battle of Britain - which saw pilots take to the air to defend Britain from German air attack ...

London: Pen & Sword Frontline / Philadelphia: Casemate, 2014. Pp. xx, 252. Illus., maps, gloss., appends., notes, biblio., index. . $39.95. ISBN: 1848327331. Although ...

In May 1945, nearly 5 years after his capture, Corporal Jack Soden arrived back to his home in High Wycombe. At that time his family were living at 224 Desborough Road. With him he had his “War-time ...

March 18 (UPI) --The last surviving Royal Air Force fighter pilot who fought in the Battle of Britain in 1940 during World War II has died ... from the beaches of Dunkirk in what became known ...