The Planes of Fame Air Museum in Chino, California, celebrated World War II airplanes and combat survivors at a recent event named Luftwaffe vs. the Eighth Air Force. The museum’s own Focke-Wulf ...
The last time Willie Schludecker saw this northeastern England village he was in the cockpit of a German bomber during World War II. On May 1, 1942, his plane damaged by British fighters during a ...
Not all heroes of the sky fought the same way. During World War II, two German pilots, Erich Hartmann and Hans-Joachim Marseille, rose above the chaos with unmatched skill and vision. While the war ...
The U.S. Air Force rates Lockheed’s needle-nosed F-104 as its finest interceptor. But in West Germany, the Starfighter has won a different label: “the flying coffin.” The Luftwaffe’s fleet of some 700 ...
Building an air force -- The Nazis and Eaker -- Spaatz and Eaker go to England -- First mission and the move to North Africa -- Casablanca and fighters in North Africa -- Romance, submarines, and ...
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World War II fighter Germany mocked until it destroyed the Luftwaffe
The Republic P-47 Thunderbolt entered World War II as an object of ridicule, dismissed by German pilots as slow, heavy, and ...
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