The appearance of the bombers in mass was the turning point in the aerial warfare of World War II. The era of sportsmanlike, ...

A World War II German bomber, likely the last of its kind, has been raised from the bottom of the English Channel and will be restored for display in a British museum. “It has been lifted and is now ...

December 31, 1944. Exhausted Luftwaffe pilots, some veterans, some terrified rookies, were denied their final night of ...

Morane-Saulnier M.S. 406 was the most numerous French fighter aircraft at the beginning of WW2. Curtiss Hawk was the first ...

Sue Long, a widow of a World War II pilot, received this letter from a 90-year-old German fighter pilot who was shot down by Long's husband south of Bonn, Germany in 1944. The Dallas Morning News / ...

It’s hard to say which part of Joe Moser’s story is most amazing: Is it the fact that he bailed out of a flaming fighter plane over France in World War II and survived not only being shot down by ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The 56 th, better known as Zemke’s Wolfpack after its legendary first ace commander, was the only unit in the strategic-bombing-focused 8 th Air Force not to trade ...

World War II aircraft were painted in a wide assortment of colors, from shades of gray to olive drab, blue, and camouflage patterns. British planes were painted Dark Earth, Dark Green, and Night — a ...

Key Point: Some historians argue the UK likely could have ‘lost’ the Battle of Britain— i.e., relinquished air superiority to the Luftwaffe—while remaining safe from invasion due to its overwhelming ...