The backbone of the Luftwaffe's air superiority rested with the Messerschmitt Bf 109, a single-engine fighter plane that saw combat from the start of the war in 1936 until the bitter end in 1945.

Spanish Airmen in German Service. Juan Arráez Cerdá and Eduardo Manuel Gil Martínez’s ‘The Blue Squadrons’: The Spanish in the Luftwaffe, 1941-1944 provides a valuable look at the Spanish experience ...

It was 11:20 a.m. on Dec. 17, 1944, when 19-year-old German Luftwaffe pilot Karl-Heinz Bosse's Messerschmitt ME 109 fighter plane was shot down by an American pilot south of Bonn, Germany.

German Luftwaffe pilot Willi Schludecker visits WW2 graves. A German Luftwaffe pilot yesterday returned to the English city he blitzed to apologise for bringing death and destruction. By.