How did the most elite Luftwaffe fighter aces keep track of their high tallies against the allies during World War II? In ...

too late to compensate for Germany's fuel shortage and lack of experienced pilots. The backbone of the Luftwaffe's air superiority rested with the Messerschmitt Bf 109, a single-engine fighter ...

On March 1, 1945, the Bachem Ba 349 "Natter" made its first and only manned flight-a daring experiment born from Germany's ...

The Luftwaffe heavily outnumbered the RAF. During the Battle of Britain, they had 2,550 fighter planes available, while the RAF only had 749. British pilots were also less experienced that the ...

On Aug. 15, 1940, Royal Air Force pilot Gordon Cleaver scrambled into the cockpit of his Hawker Hurricane and lifted into the sky. A wave of Luftwaffe bombers was thundering across the English ...

Even in the face of discrimination, WWII fighter pilot Harry T ... Austria when suddenly they found themselves outnumbered by Luftwaffe planes. Deadly dogfights ensued, Stewart squeezing off ...

First organized as a “racial experiment,” a contingent of Black Americans began training to be aviators at Tuskegee, Alabama, during World War II. They would prove their worth — and then some — over ...

As part of the all-Black 301st Fighter Squadron ... Stewart and other P-51 pilots decided to hunt for Luftwaffe aircraft on their own. They encountered long-nosed Focke-Wulf Fw 190s near the ...

Not trained as fighter pilots, his men had spent only 20 hours in their planes. Most had fired only once at a moving target. Now they had to face the fearsome Luftwaffe during some of the fiercest ...