In the summer of 1940, the Luftwaffe sought to bomb Britain into surrender. For months, cities burned as Spitfires and Hurricanes battled German bombers above London, Coventry, and Portsmouth. This ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Luftwaffe’s Arado Ar 196 pictured off the British coast, c 1930-40 - Prisma by Dukas Presseagentur GmbH / Alamy Stock Photo ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. GettyImages 544987335 As Nazi Germany staggered toward its chaotic end, desperation drove it to embrace radical - and often ...

The Do 17 made its maiden flight on November 23, 1934, and was officially adopted into the operational service of “die Vaterland” in 1937. Classified as a twin-engine light bomber, it was initially ...

Experience aviation history come to life with the legendary Messerschmitt Bf 109E 'Emil,' famously marked as 'Red 12.' This meticulously restored warbird, one of the last of its kind, takes you ...

When war broke out in September 1939, none of the combatants were prepared to fight in the way that they wanted. The British lacked the heavy bombers that interwar doctrine suggested that would be ...

Because of its ability to attack targets that were hundreds of miles away from its airbases in England, the bombers of World War II were vital assets to the Allied war effort. Tasked with the ...

Britain’s Air Ministry claimed last week that British air operations on the Western Front were keeping 50% of the Luftwaffe’s fighter strength away from the Eastern Front. Without offering facts to ...

NASM copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. The aviation industry at war -- 2. The aviation industry and the air war -- 3. Reorganization of aircraft production -- 4. From ...

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War, what is it good for? This is a question with very few reasonable answers. However, war is undeniably a driver of technological advancement: The rapid evolution of combat planes during WWII is a ...