Few machines capture the imagination like the sleek silhouette of a German warplane carving through the sky. Whether you ...

The German Luftwaffe entered World War II in September 1939 employing as its main day fighter the Messerschmitt Bf109 one of the classic fighter aircraft designs of all time When war broke out it was ...

Summary: During World War II, the strategic bomber offensive tested the balance between bombers and fighters, evolving from the early limitations demonstrated in the Battle of Britain to the ...

It was April of 1945, and Germany was in flames. The bombing raids had decimated the cities, towns, and factories where the ...

The Second World War was in many ways an aerial war. While previous wars had taken place on land and sea, and thousands of fighter planes flew over the battlefields of World War I, the development of ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The strategic bomber offensive over Europe pitted some of the world’s most advanced bombers against some of its most advanced fighters. When war broke out in ...

John "Lucky" Luckadoo flew 25 bombing missions over Europe during the war, surviving some of the most intense air battles of ...

Longtime Bakersfield resident Marci Lingo, who retired to Boise, Idaho, in 2014, is returning home next month to complete an unusual but loving task. She is burying her uncle, U.S. Army Air Forces ...

After a decades-long effort to find and identify his remains, an Army bomber crewman — shot down over Nazi Germany during World War II — will soon be buried at the veterans cemetery in Killeen.