They made a dash for freedom while the PoW orchestra, conducted by legendary legless pilot Sir Douglas Bader, played to distract the prison guards. Bader had a full view of the guards and ...

One hundred per cent luck isn’t good enough,” wrote Lieutenant Commander William “Billie” Lawson Stephens of the Royal Naval ...

An Afghanistan veteran is on course to become the first pilot without legs since Sir Douglas Bader. Learning how to fly became a hobby for Luke Sinnott after he lost his legs above the knee in an ...

World War Two fighter pilot ace Douglas Bader discusses his fame and why it is so important to mark anniversaries of major historical events such as the Battle of Britain. He defends the attitude ...

Facebook bans RAF heroes charity which teaches disabled to fly - but web giant is content to run vile videos of IS beheadings ...

Here are seven examples of pubs across the county that have been turned into houses. The Three Horseshoes pub closed its doors in Scottow in 2011. It had previously been known as the watering hole of ...

Military historian Ted Barris considers Duncan Hewitt to be the first Canadian casualty of the Battle of Britain. And, as is repeatedly the case with Barris’s new book on a seminal event of the Second ...

The name for the steam train derives from a Second World War ace Douglas Bader's RAF base and will be able to host over 200 passengers. Bill Nighy the actor once described the train on Channel 5 ...

He co-founded the Douglas Bader Foundation, of which he is also chief executive, in honour of Sir Douglas Bader who was a pilot in World War Two rising to the rank of group captain. Douglas Bader ...

The two eldest justices — Clarence Thomas, 76, and Samuel Alito, 74 — could consider stepping down knowing that Trump, a ...

Douglas as the longest-serving justice ... “But it would be foolish of him to risk repeating Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s mistake — ...

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