Discover the extraordinary combat career of Ivan Kozhedub, the highest-scoring Allied fighter pilot of World War II, whose ...

The Ta 183 combined boldly swept wings, a compact fuselage, and Heinkel’s HeS 011 turbojet, though prototypes were to rely ...

The Luftwaffe’s Arado Ar 196 pictured off the British coast, c 1930-40 - Prisma by Dukas Presseagentur GmbH / Alamy Stock Photo “The appearance of the bombers in mass was the turning point in the ...

Summary: During World War II, the strategic bombing campaign evolved as both the Axis and Allies adjusted tactics and technology. Initially, both sides lacked the resources they theorized would be ...

A group of Luftwaffe-marked plates and matching belt-buckle components were uncovered in a woodland dump used during World War II. The artifacts show how damaged or surplus military equipment was ...

Whoever conjured up the proverb “The pen is mightier than the sword” didn’t bother commenting on how the pencil fit into that discussion. Granted, a pencil isn’t generally thought of as a warfighting ...

In the opening hours of World War II, in the early morning skies over Poland, both the Axis and the Allied side had aerial victories and aerial “firsts”, some involving unlikely and obscure aircraft ...

Britain’s Air Ministry claimed last week that British air operations on the Western Front were keeping 50% of the Luftwaffe’s fighter strength away from the Eastern Front. Without offering facts to ...

Translation of Markierungen und Tarnanstriche der Luftwaffe im 2. Weltkrieg https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=liball&source=~!silibraries&uri ...