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 ...

The last surviving pilot who fought in the Battle of Britain has died aged 105. Group Captain John 'Paddy' Hemingway became one of the young pilots who fought in the Battle of France. Mr Hemingway, ...

Once a Nazi stronghold, now a ghostly enigma, this island's haunting history and hidden dangers make it one of Germany's most ...

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 ...

In the study, "Multi-disciplinary site investigations of WW2 allied aerial bombing decoy ... large enough to be seen by Luftwaffe bombers, simulating the scene of a bombed target.

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 ...

Parke, who has died at the age of 99, completed his milestone 40th operation - one that many airmen never reached - before he turned 20. He left the RAF in 1947, but he would spend the rest of his ...

German Luftwaffe planes were occasionally allowed ... the D-Day landings in these short films for secondary schools. WW2: How close did D-Day come to failure? documentWW2: How close did D-Day ...

Eventually the ship was discovered by the German Luftwaffe and despite a brave fight the ship was ... mainly women and children were saved and progressed to the newly-built WW2 camp in Neilston to see ...