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

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 ...

As the ground forces of Nazi Germany swept into Poland and precipitated World War II, bombers of the Luftwaffe, the German air force, conducted the war’s first air strikes. This German Blitzkrieg led ...

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 ...

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 ...

On Tuesday, four Tornado combat aircraft of the German Luftwaffe were deployed to the Turkish airbase at Incirlik to support the war against ISIS in Syria. According to the official web site of the ...