Plane Tales

On the 18th of June 1940, Churchill stood in Parliament and gave a speech in which he stated that what General Weyland had called the Battle of France was over and that the Battle of Britain was about to begin. In the middle of this remarkable conflict was one Raymond Towers Holmes... Sir Winston Churchill   Hermann Göring   Preparations being made for the invasion of Britain   Joseph Kennedy, the US Ambassador to Great Britain   Adolf Hitler   The Me 110   The Supermarine Spitfire   The Hawker Hurricane   The Me 109   Battle of Britain pilots   The coverage of Chain Home   Chain Home operators   Arty Holmes in his fighter   Dog fights over London during the Battle of Britain   Dornier Do 17s   The secret weapon flamethrower   The Do17 without its tail plunges down towards Victoria Station   Wreckage of the Do17 that Arty brought down     Images under Creative Commons licence with thanks to BiblioArchives, Bundesarchiv, the RAF, Wide World Photos, ROC, Adrian Pingstone, I