Spitfires in flight, circa 1940s. The Spitfire was designed by Reginald Mitchell and developed from a racing seaplane, the Supermarine S6B, which won...
Hawker Hurricanes flying in formation, Battle of Britain, World War II, 1940. Hawker Hurricanes of Fighter Command, a first line of defence against...
Supermarine Spitfire IIa P7350 , and a Hawker Hurricane IIc LF363 with markings as they appeared in Guy Hamilton's film 'Battle Of Britain', 1969....
Supermarine Spitfire Mark IAs, , of No 610 Squadron, Royal Air Force based at Biggin Hill, Kent, flying in three 'vic' formations, during the Battle...
Six RAF early Hawker Hurricane MK1 fighter aircraft with two blade fixed pitch propellers in flight over England. Circa August 1938.
Observer Corps watch the skies and report the movements of planes both friendly and enemy. Circa 1940.
Pilots of No.111 Squadron Royal Air Force Fighter Command make a practice scramble to board their Hawker Hurricane Mk.1 monoplane fighters with their...
Prototype Hawker Hurricane being test flown by Flight Lieutenant PWS Bulman, c1935 . PWS 'George' Bulman was Chief Test Pilot for Hawker Aircraft...
Fighter pilots Sgt Antoni Głowacki and Pilot Officer Stefan Witorzenc from Poland flying with No 501 Squadron Royal Auxiliary Air Force rest between...
Photograph of a Spitfire fighter plane, taken by an unknown photographer in about 1942. The Spitfire was designed by Reginald Mitchell and developed...
Lord Dowding revisits Battle of Britain Operations room. Air Chief Marshal Lord Dowding in the operations room of No, 11 Group RAF fighter command...
Members of the Home Guard and local workers examine the wreckage of a Messerschmitt Bf 109 of the German Luftwaffe, which was shot down in flames...
Royal Air Force Operations Room during the Battle of Britain. The Battle of Britain was the defence of the United Kingdom by the Royal Air Force...
Robert Stanford Tuck, fighter ace from WW2, standing next to a row of hurricanes and spitfires to be used in the film 'The Battle of Britain' 19th...
An English fighter plane shoot down in the Channel during the battle. The Battle of Britain or Air battle for England is the name given to the Second...
The first production Hawker Hurricane MkI monoplane fighters with the two-blade fixed pitch wooden propeller are lined up following delivery to...
Hawker Hurricane in flight, Battle of Britain, World War II, 1940. A Hawker Hurricane of Fighter Command on its way to intercept German bombers as...
Messerschmitt aeroplane is paraded outside the Houses of Parliament, London, after being shot down by Spitfire pilots.
Picture shows a group of Hawker Hurricanes fighter planes flying in formation during the Battle of Britain. Circa 1940.
Battle of Britain July 1940-May 1941: Children sheltering in a trench in hopfields in Kent, 3 September 1940, while Royal Air Force fighters engage...
London bus lies wrecked after being hit by a bomb during a German air raid on London, other buildings were severely damaged.
Young child is rescued by an air raid warden from a bombed out house following a German Luftwaffe bombing raid on London during The Blitz in World...
Squadron Leader Jan Zumbach stands with fellow pilot, Flight lieutenant Eugeniusz Horbaczewski beside a Supermarine Spitfire Mk VB of No 303 Polish...
Fire fighters fight the fires left burning as a result of the German Air Force attack in the Battle of Britain.
London and the Thames lie vulnerable below a German Heinkels 111 bomber, seen from an escort plane during a bombing raid on July 9, 1940. The Battle...
Children with their rescued toys, after their North London tenement homes were bombed during the night. London, 1940.
Lieutenant R. Davies, commander of a bomb disposal unit, carefully looks for the fuse of a 1200lb time bomb as it is hoisted from a crater in the...
Dogfight leaves white rings of vapour in the sky above the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral. London, 1940.
Royal Air Force pilot prepares to climb into his Spitfire on a British airbase to take part in the Battle of Britain in 1940 during World War II.
Royal Air Force fighter pilots of No. 601 Squadron based at RAF Tangmere scramble to their Hawker Hurricane MkI fighters circa November 1940.
The wreckage of a Junkers Ju88 B3+HH works number 7087 of the I/KG 54 after it hit a barrage balloon cable over Coventry and crashed in Withybrook on...
British World War Two propaganda poster featuring a photograph of RAF personnel and a quote from British prime minister Winston Churchill's 20th...
The large dome of St. Paul's Cathedral is wreathed in smoke from buildings burning after a German air raid in World War II.
Supermarine Spitfire Mk Vb, 1941. The iconic British Second World War fighter was designed by Reginald Mitchell. Powered by a Rolls-Royce Merlin...
Inhabitants of a London suburb gather to survey the damage to their houses after a World War II German air raid.
British policeman and soldier inspect the body of a fallen German Heinkel HE-111 bomber, which crashed during an air attack on Biggin Hill, Surrey....
Fighter pilot sitting in the cockpit of his Spitfire after returning from a battle with enemy aircraft, July 1940.
Hurricane is refuelled at a Royal Air Force Fighter Station and the pilot leaves the cockpit to report to the squadron intelligence officer during...
Two Luftwaffe Dornier 217 bombers flying over the Silvertown area of London's Docklands on 7th September 1940 at the beginning of the Blitz on...
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill , British politician, touring the blitz damaged streets in the City of London. He is accompanied by his wife...
Boy retrieves an item from a rubble-strewn street after German bombing raids in the first month of the Blitz, September 1940. Original publication:...
The Battle Of Britain 1940, Operations: Two Dornier 17 bombers over West Ham, London, 7th September 1940.
Supermarine Spitfire F22's, of RAF Ouston, in flight rehearsing for the 10th anniversary 'Battle of Britain' display. 27th August 1950.
Michael Caine, British actor, wearing a flying helmet and goggles as he sits in a cockpit of an aircraft in a publicity still issued for the film,...
