The Battle of Britain ended 85 years ago today—closing a months-long air war with clear parallels to the ongoing fight in the ...
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Where the Battle of Britain Began

In this Then & Now episode, we revisit the quiet hills of Kent where, on July 8, 1940, the RAF scored its first fighter kill ...
Humanity achieved flight a mere decade before the outset of World War I in 1914, and pioneers did not take long to press the revolutionary new science into service. The first fighter pilots fought in ...
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