A service is being held to remember the last German aircraft to be brought down over British soil during World War Two. On 4 March 1945, a German aircraft crashed at Elvington near York killing all ...

Major Erich Hartmann would fly 1,404 operational sorties during WW2, engaging the enemy over 850 times and scoring 352 victories while crashing 16 times (but not as a result of being shot down!). He ...

In the early hours of Sunday 80 years ago, the Luftwaffe came calling on Darlington. A lone raider strafed the streets, targeted a train and fired ...

In 1940 Hitler sent 2,600 Luftwaffe fighters and bombers to destroy ... bombers to carry out attacks on German ground forces. WW2: What was the secret to winning the Battle of Britain?

Its explosive sound describes the Luftwaffe’s almost continual aerial ... the Blitz on Britain was over. WW2: Could you be part of a Lancaster Bomber crew? documentWW2: Could you be part of ...

AT THE end of 1941, the German Luftwaffe were on the back foot. The Americans had joined WW2 after the attack on Pearl Harbour and the English had won the fight for aerial dominance in the Battle ...

It could be called fake news - but Britain's little known 'decoy' towns and airfields cleverly lured German night bombers away from their real targets.

The aim? To trick the WW2 Luftwaffe into bombing open countryside instead of high-priority industrial targets nearby, such as Shelton Iron and Steel Works, the Michelin Tyre Factory and the Meir ...

Yorkshire Air Museum marketing and communications manager Jerry Ibbotson said the attack had been "a last throw of the dice" by the German Luftwaffe. He said: "These were the dying weeks of the ...