A hidden doorway leading to an underground bunker was uncovered by developers clearing an overgrown site in Cornwall. The ...

Beaufighter LZ314/P: Took off at 17:05 hrs for Rover patrol off Bommel Fjord, Norway. 30/03/1944 Beaufighter aircraft failed to return from an anti-shipping strike off Bommel Fjord, Norway. The ...

Beaufighter LZ136/"O": Four aircraft took off at intervals from 08:25hrs for targets at Kalawa and on the Thazi-Myingyan railway. Two of the crews were attacked enemy fighters but shook them off. ‘O’ ...

A Weston-super-Mare bridge originally built to support the war effort is set to be demolished on Christmas Day. The Winterstoke Road Bridge was built during the Second World War to access aircraft ...

It is being replaced with an £11m new bridge, which will stretch over a mainline railway between Bristol and Taunton, and is scheduled to open in spring 2027. Winterstoke Road Bridge closed to traffic ...

Have you ever heard of the Beaufighter, the heavy twin that enemies nicknamed “Whispering Death”? In this episode we trace its evolution from Beaufort bomber derivative to radar-equipped night fighter ...

The Whirlwind was a heavily-armed, single-seat, twin-engine fighter designed for high performance, with great attention paid ...

My Grandad, like many Grandparents to British people of my generation, lived through and fought in the Second World War. He was a Flight Sergeant and a Navigator during the War and remained in the RAF ...

With decades of natural ebb and flow, the sands on Cleethorpes Beach in Lincolnshire, England revealed the wreckage of a World War II fighter plane. According to Fox News, the Royal Air Force plane ...

Marguerite Weyer, air mechanic with the WRNS who worked on the Seafire and Bristol Beaufighter Marguerite was a promising art student when in 1946 she decided to volunteer for service as a Wren, and ...

Luke Diaz is a freelance military writer with experience with active duty experience in the US Navy as well as defense and industrial engineering. He is a former Naval Flight Officer who performed ...