As the Luftwaffe lost control of the air to the numerically superior Allies, the Stuka was one of the first aircraft to ...

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

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

On September 13, 1942, the skies over Stalingrad had been in chaos for over a year. Suddenly, a lone Yak-1 fighter, marked ...

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

Kept under a veil of civilian airlines, glider clubs, and civil aviation clubs, the Luftwaffe emerged as a military force while the rest of Europe slept, and the He 51 was the backbone fighter of the ...

The 119th Fighter Squadron at the Atlantic City Air National Guard Base has a new flagship: a jet that bears the tail insignia of the Jersey Jerk, the name of the planes that hero pilot Donald J.

A National Air and Space Museum researcher solves a World War II mystery Richard Whittle Melitta von Stauffenberg was an engineer who insisted on flying her own tests of aircraft modifications she had ...

A new conception of the warplane is emerging in Europe. Today it is the Flying Fortress (B17) and Liberator (B-24). Tomorrow it will be the air dreadnought —not only capable of bombing the earth below ...

In 1944, an American bomber was separated from its formation after making a bombing run over airplane factories in the heart of Nazi Germany when one of its engines began to fail. Luftwaffe pilots ...