Known to many as the 'Mossie,' the British Mosquito was a multipurpose aircraft that saw widespread deployment during World War II. It was built mostly of plywood with a balsa wood core, and it ...

The British government claimed that eating carrots helped its fighter pilots shoot down German planes at night. In truth, the Royal Air Force relied on top-secret radar ...

Eight British-made Hurricane fighters from World War II were discovered buried in a forest in Ukraine, the BBC reported on July 2. The U.K. sent the planes to the Soviet Union in 1941 after the ...

-It claimed over 600 enemy aircraft and 600 V-1 rockets in the night-fighter role. -Notably, in Operation Jericho, Mosquitos bombed a German prison, enabling 255 Allied POWs to escape. -Of the ...