It was thanks to former WWI pilot Tommy Hitchcock that the P-51 entered U.S service — and changed the skies over Europe ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

It’s a thrilling WW2 aircraft dogfighting game that pits squadrons of British RAF and German Luftwaffe pilots against each other in a beautifully designed dance of death where every plane is a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

Outcome: Extensive damage to German aviation factories and attrition of Luftwaffe fighters. 'We must get the USAAF to wade in with greater force ... We can wreck Berlin from end to end if the ...