Article: Our Finest Hour.(The Battle of Britain and the Royal Air Force Museum)(Brief Article)

Article: Minister snubs Finest Hour service.
The Daily Mail (London, England);  September 18, 2007 ;     459 words ... ... Minister Rev Ian Paisley were the only MPs present. Tony Hirons, of the Royal Air Force Association, said: 'I cannot remember aservice in recent Finest Hour years where a Government representative hasn't been present. It's an astonishing ...

Article: Their finest hour // The Battle of Britain, a ...
Chicago Sun-Times;  October 22, 1989 ;     700+ words ... ... to our duties," continues to ring true: "Men will still say, `This was their finest hour.' " If the badly outnumbered fighter pilots of the Royal Air Force had not prevailed over the Luftwaffe, Nazi Germany most likely would have invaded ...

Article: `FINEST HOUR' DETAILS BRITS' WARTIME BRAVERY
Herald-News (Joliet, IL);  July 10, 2000 ;     700+ words ...THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Finest Hour contains the personal ... on WTTW-Channel 11. Finest Hour is also unsettling ... in 1940 when the Royal Air Force and Luftwaffe clashed ... say, `This was their finest hour,'" Churchill exhorted ...

Article: Cinema: Hollywood updates history of Battle of Britain: Tom ...
The Independent on Sunday;  April 11, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... version of what Churchill called our "finest hour". Fiske was a remarkable character ... German fighters had decimated the Royal Air Force to the point that there weren't enough ... chairman of the 601 Squadron Royal Auxiliary Air Force Old Comrades' Association. "They gave ...

Article: THIS EUROPE: Recording their finest hour: last ...
The Independent - London;  March 8, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... who died fighting with the RAF, and later the Free French air force, in 1940-45. M. Lafont, who changed the spelling of his ... lives in a Paris penthouse, retired as a colonel in the French air force and became director of the international aeronautical and space ...

Article: THEIR FINEST HOUR; The 16 people on this page are ...
The Daily Mail (London, England);  November 28, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... a total of 23 VCs was awarded during the short-lived Zulu War of 1879 (11 for Rorke's Drift alone) whereas the Royal Air Force has received just 32 in its entire history. This disparity, though, is down to many factors, not least the shift away from ...

Article: WEEKEND LIFE: The day air ace Jock Cunningham became a Battle of ...
Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland);  September 9, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... on to the huge map table, just in time to see the first markers being placed down by the female plotters showing the German Air Force, the Luftwaffe, starting to stir. The largest air battle in history was about to be played out before his eyes. The actual ...