When British pilots first encountered Luftwaffe planes like the Messerschmitt Bf 109 (one of the iconic Axis aircraft that dominated World War II) bearing these yellow markings, they initially ...

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.

The wreck of the German World War II Dornier Do-17 plane is transported on a barge to a harbor near Ramsgate, England, on Tuesday, June 11. The bomber was shot down during the Battle of Britain in ...

Bf 109 fighters over the English Channel, 1940. The Messerschmitt Bf 109 was the main German fighter of World War II and the most produced fighter of the war.

HONOR IN WARTIME: American WWII pilot Charlie Brown (left) was struggling to keep his damaged bomber airborne in the skies over Germany in 1943 when Luftwaffe ace Hanz Stigler (right) flew alongside.

Nicknamed the “Flying Jug,” the P-47 weighed 14,500 pounds — nearly twice the weight of some of the German Luftwaffe planes it would face in combat — and was heavily armed with eight .50 ...

As the ground forces of Nazi Germany swept into Poland and precipitated World War II, bombers of the Luftwaffe, the German air force, conducted the war’s first air strikes. This German Blitzkrieg led ...

World War II aircraft were painted in a wide assortment of colors, from shades of gray to olive drab, blue, and camouflage patterns. British planes were painted Dark Earth, Dark Green, and Night ...