By comparison, Germany built just over 100,000, Great Britain 108,000, and Japan a mere 67,000. The furious speeds at which so many of these legendary WW2 planes were screaming through the air ...

something was often painted to personalize WW2 planes. In Germany, things regarding nose art were different from in the U.S., and more restrained. The most common characteristic of German fighters ...

Similarly, the German Focke-Wulf Fw-190 devastated ... (Here is a look at the cities destroyed by the USA in World War II.) Though cargo planes were widely used in WWII, transporting troop and ...

Six C-130J Super Hercules planes based at Ramstein Air Base in Germany have been given a fresh ... echoing the same patterns used on World War II planes for the invasion of Normandy.

The aircraft were sent to the Soviet Union by Britain after Nazi Germany invaded the country in 1941. They were part of a package of allied military support for the USSR, paid for by the United ...

The plane proved decisive in gaining air superiority ... adapted to be fighter-bombers to carry out attacks on German ground forces. WW2: What was the secret to winning the Battle of Britain?

Clarence E. “Bud” Anderson Jr, a military pilot whose aerial derring-do spanned from World War II, when he personally shot down 16 German planes in dogfights over occupied Europe, to ...

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 ...