Flying high over Berlin on April 17, 1945, Ivan Kozhedub maneuvered his La-7 with the precision that had made him the Soviet ...

The Hawker Hurricane was not as attractive or streamlined as the Spitfire, and it failed to capture the public’s respect in ...

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 ...

The priority became fighters, and that was reflected in training, aircraft development, factory output, and allocated resources. Irrespective of how important it was, for the Luftwaffe ...

And now another aerial warrior has just joined the ranks of his comrades in Fighter Pilot’s Heaven: Lt. Col. (USAF, ret.) Ed ...

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 ...

By the time Raymond K. “Duke” Deamer joined his bomber unit in February 1944 at RAF Knettishall, Suffolk, England, the ...

Piloting a Hawker Hurricane in Fighter Command's famous "11 Group ... In the end, the RAF inflicted so much damage to the Luftwaffe that Hitler shelved his invasion plan buying the Allies ...

But he postponed it indefinitely when the R.A.F. — vastly outnumbered at the height of battle, with 749 fighter aircrafts compared with the Luftwaffe’s 2,550 — beat back German bombers and ...