The SAS commandos silently infiltrated the German air base at Bagush, removed the nearby guards with their knives, set up the ...

At first glance, it looks like a mistake—but the BV 141 was a real WWII reconnaissance aircraft with a cockpit offset from ...

The German Luftwaffe entered World War II in September 1939 employing as its main day fighter the Messerschmitt Bf109 one of the classic fighter aircraft designs of all time When war broke out it ...

The practice continues to influence the design of modern aircraft, some of which ... two of the best German fighter planes of WW2. The spirals worked well to promote safety.

The Japanese “Zero” fighter, for example, had a 12-to-1 kill ratio over enemy aircraft. Similarly, the German Focke-Wulf Fw-190 devastated the less capable Allied fighters in aerial combat.

Tolley Fletcher, at the time a 19-year-old Navy gunner's mate, remembers the rough seas and the treacherous landing troops made at Utah Beach.

The paints were initially produced by several German companies, and later in German-occupied territory. Aircraft manufacturers ... so many of these legendary WW2 planes were screaming through ...

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 ...