One of the strangest dogfights—involving three four-engine ... Berlin transferred some of the anti-convoy work from U-boats to the Luftwaffe, increasing the chances that Allied airplanes would ...

German term for an air force. It was also the official name for the Nazi air force founded in 1935. Led by Hermann Goering, it became the largest and most powerful in Europe by the start of World War ...

During fierce dogfights in August 1940 ... In the end, the RAF inflicted so much damage to the Luftwaffe that Hitler shelved his invasion plan buying the Allies time to regroup, rearm and ...

World War II hero, RAF flyer. Born Dublin, July 17, 1919; died Dublin, March 17, aged 105. The Few are no more. The last of ...

Pilot and Air Force officer Lt. Col. Matt Ziemann rates eight World War II dogfight scenes in movies for realism. He discusses the accuracy of real World War II-era dogfights portrayed in ...

In 1940, Hemingway downed a German Luftwaffe plane but his Hurricane ... which became known as the Battle of Britain. During intense dogfights in August 1940, Hemingway was forced to bail out ...

At 21, he was a fighter pilot in the Battle of Britain, a three-month period when air force personnel defended the skies against a large-scale assault by the German air force, the Luftwaffe ... During ...

John “Paddy″ Hemingway's death severs the last living link to the few thousand young men who fought the Nazi air force to a standstill.