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.

A fighter pilot, Mr. Hemingway was part of the aerial resistance in 1940 that was credited with forcing Hitler to call off a planned invasion of Britain.

John “Paddy” Hemingway, the last surviving pilot who flew during the Battle of Britain, has died at the age of 105