Wednesday, 19 March 2025

John “Paddy” Hemingway, Last Surviving Pilot of the Battle of Britain, Dies at 105

A fighter pilot in a vastly outnumbered Royal Air Force — one of the “few” hailed by Churchill — he took to the skies to help stave off a Nazi land invasion of Britain.

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