A father and son have paid tribute to the memory of Battle of Britain pilots by staging photographs which aim to recreate the ...

AeroTime looks back at the World War II Allied ace pilots from the US, UK, France and Soviet Union who became legends of the ...

When the hastily built Lavochkin La-5 fighter first soared into the aerial arena in July 1943, German pilots waved it off as inconsequential. They even condescendingly nicknamed it 'Neue Rata,' as if ...

In 1940, as the Luftwaffe rained destruction on Britain, more than 30 Australian fighter pilots - some flying for the RAF - joined “The Few” to help defend the skies. Men like Flight Lieutenant Pat ...

The World War II veteran survived 25 perilous B-17 missions over Nazi Germany and later became a voice for remembering the ...

The 119th Fighter Squadron at the Atlantic City Air National Guard Base has a new flagship: a jet that bears the tail insignia of the Jersey Jerk, the name of the planes that hero pilot Donald J.

Blue plaques to honour two brothers who fought in the Battle of Britain have been unveiled at their former home in Barnsley.

Last week marked the 85th anniversary of the Battle of Britain, that fierce aerial battle, when hundreds of airmen took to the skies to defend the U.K. from Hitler’s Luftwaffe.

Kept under a veil of civilian airlines, glider clubs, and civil aviation clubs, the Luftwaffe emerged as a military force while the rest of Europe slept, and the He 51 was the backbone fighter of the ...

A National Air and Space Museum researcher solves a World War II mystery Richard Whittle Melitta von Stauffenberg was an engineer who insisted on flying her own tests of aircraft modifications she had ...

In 1944, an American bomber was separated from its formation after making a bombing run over airplane factories in the heart of Nazi Germany when one of its engines began to fail. Luftwaffe pilots ...

The massive preparation for invasion thundered through its 16th straight day into a new month of fantastic statistics of destruction. In April, U.S. and R.A.F. planes from Britain and Italy had ...