Air Forces & Warfare

The Boeing B-17 was the first American heavy bomber to see action in World War when it was supplied to the RAF. The design originated in 1934 when ...

Allied air power made a major, arguably decisive, contribution to victory in The Second World War both in the European and Pacific theatres. The c...

During the Second World War, 55,573 RAF Bomber Command aircrew were killed, a shocking 44.4% death rate. A further 8,500 were wounded and 9,800 bec...

Much has been written about the Royal Air Force during the Second World War-memoirs, biographies, histories of Fighter and Bomber commands, technic...

The events of 1942 marked a pivotal year in the history of British air power. For more than two decades the theory that long-range bombing could wi...

Air Marshal Sir Geoffrey Salmond and his brother Jack joined the Royal Flying Corps during the Great War and both were to have a major influence on...

If one aircraft was to represent the First World War, it could be the distinctive red Fokker Triplane of Manfred von Richthofen. With an astonishin...

Germany was never able to match the power of the Allied air forces with their great four-engine bombers, the Lancasters, Liberators and Flying Fort...

General Amos Amir's autobiography tells the story of the man, the warrior and the commander and the story of the struggling, newly-born, Israeli Ai...

This is no ordinary memoir. Moving back and forth through time, two stories with fascinating parallels gradually unfold. One is of a Second World W...

Douglas Bader was a legend in his lifetime and remains one today 100 years after his birth. A charismatic leader and fearless pilot he refused to l...

On 1 June 1943 Flight 777, a Douglas DC-3, en route from Lisbon to Britain, was shot down over the Bay of Biscay by German aircraft. Among the dead...

Long before the start of the Second World War it had been believed that strategic bombing would be the deciding factor in any future conflict. Then...

Bomber Command's campaign started on the very first day of the Second World War and ended within a few hours of the final victory in Europe five an...

William Gregory, Greg, to all, was born into a sharecropper's life in the hills of northcentral Tennessee. From the back of a mule-drawn plow, Greg...

The support provided by the Allied air armies to the preparations for the invasion of France and the Normandy campaign is overshadowed by the drama...

Rodney Scrases life in the RAF began in an old airship shed where he took the Kings shilling in May 1941. He learnt to fly at a BFTS in America and...

As part of the Aviation Heritage Trail series, the accomplished military author and former RAF Officer Peter Jacobs takes us to the county of Yorks...

On 9 August 1941, one of the greatest icons of the Second World War, Douglas Bader, was shot down, captured and later incarcerated. But by whom, an...

2017 marks the 80th anniversary of the remarkable Hawker Hurricane formally entering service. The RAF''s first monoplane fighter, it dragged the Ai...

Operation Diver is the story of a battle: its action, people, landscapes, and remains. The battle was Anti-Aircraft Commands attempt to defeat the ...

1943 was the turning point in the Battle of the Atlantic, when the balance of forces, technologies and tactics turned irrevocably against Germanys ...

The Lockheed C-130 Hercules has been in continuous production for over six decades, longer than any other military aircraft in the world, and no en...

The Bristol Blenheim entered Bomber Command service in 1937 and became one of the Command's most important aircraft. On its inception, the Blenheim...

On 10 May 1940, the French possessed one of the largest air forces in the world. On paper, it was nearly as strong as the RAF. Six weeks later, Fra...

610 (County of Chester) Squadron was formed in February 1936 as a bomber squadron. With personnel recruited from the local area for the expanding A...

The biggest success of the Focke Wulf company during the Second World War was the choice of a radial engine for the Fw 190 fighter, in this way avo...

806 Squadron was formed in early 1940 and was equipped with Skuas and Rocs, both outdated as fighters and dive-bombers, the latter hampered by a gu...

Twenty-four aircrew who flew the iconic aircraft with the Fleet Air Arm, the Royal Air Force and the South African Air Force (SAAF) relate their ex...

The United Kingdom and the United States governments made a series of signed agreements in the early part of 1941 which allowed for the American Na...

During the Second World War, thousands of young men volunteered for service with the Royal Air Force. Some of these became fighter pilots, but a gr...

Karel Kuttelwascher may have had a German surname, but he was a Czech who became the scourge of the Luftwaffe bombers operating from France and the...

From the lessons of the First World War, the RAF developed a fleet of modern monoplane aircraft in time for hostilities in 1939; a force that consi...

In October 1943 Jack changed from Liberators to Beaufighters having been selected for Torbeau training in Scotland. He joined a Strike Wing at Nort...

Cela fait 70 ans que le bruit des moteurs et le fracas des bombes ne résonnent plus dans le ciel de France. Après avoir effectuéde nombreuses reche...

In this riveting critique of the Fleet Air Arm''s policy across two world wars, former FAA Fighter Pilot Henry Adlam charts the course of its histo...

This is a comprehensive reference to the structure, operation, aircraft and men of the 1st Tactical Air Force, or Desert Air Force as it became kno...

THE HISTORY OF THE RAF AND THE LANCASTER BOMBER celebrates and commemorates over 100 years of the Royal Air Force. With access to rare RAF archives...

The Royal Air Force is the world's oldest independent air arm, yet little has been written about its logistics. This ground-breaking book, which dr...

de Havilland Mosquito: The Original Multirole Combat Aircraft covers the creation, design and development of the beloved Mosquito that was built in...

Jimmy Sheddan was one of the many New Zealanders who joined the RNZAF, then left his native land to come to England to fight the enemies of Great B...

We visualise dashing and daring young men as the epitome of the pilots of the Second World War, yet amongst that elite corps was one person who fle...

During the plunging temperature of the early Cold War years the RAF found itself increasingly in need of a truly all-weather high performance fight...

Into the Swarm: Stories of RAF Fighter Pilots in the Second World War is a collaborative work by Christopher Yeoman (Rise Against Eagles) and Tor I...

Royal Air Force Fighter Command's brief was to provide an effective aerial barrier to any attempt at domination of British skies. The aircraft and ...