READ MORE: Former RAF base near Cambridgeshire that played vital role in WW2 and Cold War READ MORE: Former Cambridgeshire RAF base that has also been the site of a racetrack and flight school ...

A wildlife trust says it hopes to create a memorial garden at a former World War Two airfield. Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust ...

More than 117 Junkers JU88 night-fighters were sent to intercept Allied bombers which has been hitting targets in Germany, with instructions to attack as they landed back at their bases in the ...

But in World War II, that was precisely what was done, as pigeons were raised on RAF bases so that crews could take them along on bombers and release them to take back messages if the need arose.

The RAF lost 1,023 planes. The tide of the war started to turn. Britain was now a launch pad for future attacks on Germany. Malta was a key strategic Allied base in World War Two. Axis forces laid ...

Located over the Cambridgeshire border is a former RAF base which was used during the Second World War and beyond. RAF Debden, near Saffron Walden, first opened in April 1937. The airfield was ...