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Mieczysław Adamek. Les Adams (rugby league) Jack Agazarian. Noel Agazarian. Napier Sturt, 3rd Baron Alington. Geoffrey Allard. Charles Allberry. John Allen (RAF officer) Michael Anderson (cricketer, born 1916)
1940s. 1945. On 29 September PD343 an Avro Lancaster B.1 of No. 550 Squadron RAF went missing on a flight from Italy to the United Kingdom with 26 on board. [ 1] On 2 October KH219 a Consolidated Liberator GR.6 of No. 203 Squadron RAF went missing in the Bay of Bengal returning to Singapore on a supply flight, 12 on board.
Edward Addison. John Aiken (Royal Air Force officer) Frederick Alan Aikman. Cyril Aldred. Michael Aldridge. Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia (1924–2016) Kenneth Alexander (economist) Nicholas Alkemade.
British military personnel killed in World War II. British military personnel killed in action in the Second World War (1939-1945). Pages in this category should be moved to subcategories where applicable. This category may require frequent maintenance to avoid becoming too large. It should directly contain very few, if any, pages and should ...
32,138 civilians wounded [ 12] The Battle of Britain ( German: Luftschlacht um England, "air battle for England") was a military campaign of the Second World War, in which the Royal Air Force (RAF) and the Fleet Air Arm (FAA) of the Royal Navy defended the United Kingdom (UK) against large-scale attacks by Nazi Germany 's air force, the Luftwaffe.
Operation Chastise, commonly known as the Dambusters Raid, [ 1][ 2] was an attack on German dams carried out on the night of 16/17 May 1943 by 617 Squadron RAF Bomber Command, later called the Dam Busters, using special "bouncing bombs" developed by Barnes Wallis. The Möhne and Edersee dams were breached, causing catastrophic flooding of the ...
During World War II, 1.2 million African Americans served in the U.S. Armed Forces and 708 were killed in action. 350,000 American women served in the Armed Forces during World War II and 16 were killed in action. [342] During World War II, 26,000 Japanese-Americans served in the Armed Forces and over 800 were killed in action. [343]
This is a list of fighter aces in World War II from the United Kingdom and the British Empire (Country names as per name at the time of World War II). For other countries see List of World War II aces by country. For "turret fighters" such as the Boulton Paul Defiant, the pilot put the aircraft into position with the enemy and it was the gunner ...