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

Who really were the most dominant fighter pilots of the Second World War? Welcome back to History of War Elites![...] ...

The top nine most destroyed Allied planes faced the full force of the Luftwaffe’s elite fighter aces. From the Hurricane and ...

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

He is a German Luftwaffe ace with 81 confirmed victories on the Eastern front. Now a 103-year-old veteran, his talent[...] ...

The Do 17 made its maiden flight on November 23, 1934, and was officially adopted into the operational service of “die Vaterland” in 1937. Classified as a twin-engine light bomber, it was initially ...

I flew 36 missions and every time I went up my overriding thought is will I come back, but we had a job to do to defeat the Nazis and it had to be done”.

In six days U.S. and British bombers dropped 20,000 tons of bombs on Nazi targets. The heavy attacks brought Luftwaffe fighter planes out in force and that was exactly what the Allies, and ...

They were given in a wartime speech (now known as “The Few”) in the British House of Commons 85 years ago on Aug. 20, 1940.

Seit dem Jahr 2024 gedenkt die Luftwaffe am 24. September ihrer Geschichte. Im zweiten Jahr dieser Tradition beging man die Feierlichkeiten in Kaufbeuren. Kaufbeuren – Am 24. September gedenkt die ...