When war broke out in Europe in 1939, Britain urgently needed a bomber force capable of operating at night, and the Armstrong ...
The Halifax was built by the thousands and fought from the darkest nights of Bomber Command to coastal patrols, special operations, and postwar transport, yet it vanished from public memory behind the ...
Joe English learned to fly a Lancaster bomber before he could drive a car. During World War Two, RAF Bomber Command called upon young men barely out of their teens to fly some of the most dangerous ...
1819 - Commodore Oliver H. Perry, the hero of the Battle of Lake Erie, dies on board the schooner, USS Nonsuch, in Trinidad of a fever contracted during his successful efforts to suppress piracy while ...