Here’s What You Need to Remember: Acknowledging these factors isn’t to diminish the heroism of the RAF pilots who defended the United Kingdom. Fighter Command’s successful defense spared the UK more ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: On a purely military level, the RAF simply wasn’t the primary impediment to a German invasion of the U.K.; a large fleet of Royal Navy warships was. By June 1940, ...

Lieutenant Doug Gilling, who had died aged 101, was the last of the Dominion yachtsmen who volunteered to join the Navy during the Second World War. In July 1940, when the Admiralty extended to ...