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Why did the Germans lose the Battle of Britain? | WW2 in numbers | Timeline

Hitler's bid to launch his full-scale invasion of Britain hinged on the Germans acheiving air superiority. In this episode of WWII In Numbers we take a look at the figures and see why this was never ...
The Economist

Britain’s second-world-war veterans are dying out

Winston Churchill was clear. “My dear friends,” he said on May 8th 1945, standing on a balcony in Whitehall to address the cheering crowds below. “This is your hour.” Victory, he said, did not belong ...
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Britain's oldest WW2 veteran dies aged 110: Donald Rose survived D-Day and liberated Belsen

Britain's oldest Second World War veteran, also believed to be Britain's oldest man, Donald Rose, has passed away aged 110. The D-Day veteran was born on Christmas Eve in 1914, the same year that ...
The National Interest

America Trained British Pilots for War Against the Nazis in World War II

The inspiration for this article came from an April 21, 2025, piece by guest author Kevin Wilkins for Vintage Aviation News titled “The American Airfields Where British Pilots Learned to Fly.” To wit: ...
UPI

Last surviving RAF fighter ace from the Battle of Britain dies at 105

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. He was 105 years old. Announcing the death of John "Paddy" ...
The New York Times

John A. Hemingway, Last Survivor of the Battle of Britain, Dies at 105

A fighter pilot in a vastly outnumbered Royal Air Force — one of the “few” hailed by Churchill — he took to the skies to help stave off a Nazi land invasion of Britain. By Richard Goldstein Addressing ...