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ARTEFACT WAR
Sub Lieutenant Arthur Blake’s broken armo
When Buckingham Palace was hit by bombs on 15 September 1940, it brought the war to the very front door of King George VI and his wife Elizabeth, the Queen consort. Just over two weeks later, the war
Fritz Kosmahl, destined to become one of Germany’s most highly decorated two-seater pilots, was born in Leipzig on 5 September 1892. His early interest in aviation led him to undertake pilot training
Sunday 18 June 1944 was a fine day. The morning service at the Royal Military Chapel (the Guards’ Chapel) in Birdcage Walk in the City of Westminster, Central London, was officially commemorating the
On a muggy night in late August 1940, Hinnerk Waller’s fraying tether had finally snapped. Relentlessly deployed in the Battle of Britain as part of the Luftwaffe fighter wing JG 52, Waller was paying
This fantastic plan, which led the then Deputy Chief of the Air Staff (DCAS), Air Vice-Marshal Arthur T Harris, to remark ‘the story, that appears too fantastic for words, might have a fortunate outco
Flight’s glamorous beginnings