In the summer of 1940, the fate of Europe hung in the balance as the Luftwaffe prepared to crush Britain from the air. Fresh from their lightning victories in France and the Low Countries, German ...

From the skies over Europe to the deserts of North Africa, the Luftwaffe claimed tens of thousands of Allied aircraft during ...

Who really were the most dominant fighter pilots of the Second World War? Welcome back to History of War Elites![...] ...

In World War II, America could produce the planes, bombs, machine gun bullets, and transport them to Europe, no question ...

Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels’ propaganda Luftwaffe (not to be confused with fat Hermann Göring’s bleached-out command) was doing radio and paper prodigies. On Jan. 22, the German propaganda machine ...

I flew 36 missions and every time I went up my overriding thought is will I come back, but we had a job to do to defeat the Nazis and it had to be done”.

When war broke out in September 1939, none of the combatants were prepared to fight in the way that they wanted. The British lacked the heavy bombers that interwar doctrine suggested that would be ...

How successful the R.A.F. offensive against Germany is in keeping the German air force away from Russia is anybody’s guess. But one reasonably informed guesstimate came last week from Peter Masefield, ...