In April 1940, Britain had a second chance to finish what Jutland began. As Nazi warships entered the fjords of Norway, Royal ...

Friday marks the 85th anniversary of the Coventry Blitz and the city has organised a number of events to remember everything ...

Two years into World War 2, the tide changed as the United States joined the conflict. Knowing that their powerful U-boats ...

Previously published in two vols as: Fighters of the Luftwaffe. 1993 - Bombers of the Luftwaffe. 1994. Omnibus ed. first published: 1997.

On Sept. 7, 1940 — 80 years ago tonight — the German air force launched a massive series of attacks on London that would go on for 56 of the next 57 days and nights. The plan was to destroy the Royal ...

Because of its ability to attack targets that were hundreds of miles away from its airbases in England, the bombers of World War II were vital assets to the Allied war effort. Tasked with the ...

The Yak-9 performed more anti-tank missions, in particular, the Yak-9T variant with a 37mm cannon, in this case the ...

The He 111 made its maiden flight on February 24, 1935, and entered into the official operational service of “die Vaterland” later that year. The Heinkel wielded a payload of 4,400 lbs. of bombs in ...

September 19th, 1942. Oberleutnant Wilhelm Johnen pushes his Messerschmitt Bf 109G to its absolute limit, engine screaming at maximum power,[...] ...

Humanity achieved flight a mere decade before the outset of World War I in 1914, and pioneers did not take long to press the revolutionary new science into service. The first fighter pilots fought in ...

The massive preparation for invasion thundered through its 16th straight day into a new month of fantastic statistics of destruction. In April, U.S. and R.A.F. planes from Britain and Italy had ...

Bolton was in blackout as a police officer went about his rounds in the pitch-dark of Saturday, November 16, 1940. Two nights ...