He is the greatest fighter ace of all time, bettered by none! It was just unfortunate he flew for the enemy! This piece of unique Luftwaffe fighter pilot history will be lost forever. Fortunately ...

While the numbers may be inflated, Luftwaffe pilots claimed that the Me 262 shot down 542 Allied aircraft during the war.

It was thanks to former WWI pilot Tommy Hitchcock that the P-51 entered U.S service — and changed the skies over Europe ...

During World War II, the Mustang destroyed 4,950 Luftwaffe aircraft in the air—the most of any U.S. fighter in the European Theater. The North American P-51 Mustang may well be the most iconic U ...

The last surviving Royal Air Force fighter pilot who fought in the Battle of Britain in 1940 during World War II has died. He was 105 years old.

A fighter pilot in a vastly outnumbered Royal Air Force — one of the “few” hailed by Churchill — he took to the skies to help ...

After the original designer RJ Mitchell died in 1937, his successor Joe Smith developed the fighter to make it faster and more powerful. In 1940 Hitler sent 2,600 Luftwaffe fighters and bombers to ...

The pilot's squadron shot down 90 enemy aircraft during an 11-day period in May 1940, and provided fighter cover during the ...

(Photo by John Thys / AFP) According to the German Air Force (GAF, or Luftwaffe), a Russian surveillance aircraft approached northeastern Germany on Thursday before it was escorted away by fighter ...

Hangers and runways were obliterated, but Polish fighter aircraft had been remotely deployed prior to this attack and escaped damage. Attacks in the north by the Luftwaffe had been slowed by the ...

We shall never forget them.” In 1940, Group Capt Hemingway was recorded as destroying a German airliner and the following day he downed a German Luftwaffe plane, but his Hurricane fighter was hit by ...

In 1940, he downed a German Luftwaffe plane but his Hurricane fighter was hit by anti-aircraft fire and he had to make a forced landing, according to the RAF. In the summer of that year, he then ...