A World War Two American fighter pilot has been surprised with a flight in a Mustang aeroplane 80 years to the day after he ...

And now another aerial warrior has just joined the ranks of his comrades in Fighter Pilot’s Heaven: Lt. Col. (USAF, ret.) Ed ...

While serving in Germany’s Luftwaffe in World War II, Erich Hartmann flew more than ... What made Hartmann such a great fighter pilot? Hartmann was in the early cohort of German pilots who ...

But as Horst Petzschler talked about what it was like to be a pilot in Germany’s Luftwaffe during World War II, the gray-haired ... with American bombers and fighter planes.

German term for an air force. It was also the official name for the Nazi air force founded in 1935. Led by Hermann Goering, it became the largest and most powerful in Europe by the start of World War ...

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 Luftwaffe launched a large scale attack, intent on wiping out Britain's air defences. The pilots of the RAF ... of Britain dogfight in action. WW2: Did the war change life for women?

A Japanese pilot slammed his Zero fighter plane into the USS Missouri ... marking one of the more unusual and little-known episodes of World War II. The pilot received the same funeral that ...

The last surviving Battle of Britain pilot, John "Paddy" Hemingway, has died at the age of 105. Mr Hemingway, who was originally from Dublin, joined the Royal Air Force (RAF) as a teenager before ...

Fly with World War II's finest pilots: The 357th Fighter Group ... in a classic fight for the sky against the deadly German Luftwaffe. Become a member of the 357th. Advertisement Heroes Of ...