WAPPINGERS FALLS, N.Y. (AP) — As the World War II bomber Heaven Can Wait was hit by enemy fire off the Pacific island of New ...

However, poor planning and inexperienced pilots would doom ... the attack on the airfield by Luftwaffe fighter-bombers in Operation Bodenplatte during World War II. (Royal Air Force) To make ...

As Milne and Stubbs flew to RAF Turnberry in Ayrshire with the Highball onboard, it is believed that the Mosquito suffered a ...

A rare watch worn by Luftwaffe pilots in World War II that spent 75 years gathering ... their perilous missions while fending off Allied bomber flights, the pilots had to return the watches ...

The program to train World War II British pilots was launched in 1941 under the provisions of the Lend-Lease Act.

Experience a meticulously recreated WWII aerial battle where RAF Spitfires intercept German Ju-88 bombers. Utilizing IL-2 Sturmovik's advanced simulation, this scenario mirrors the intense dogfights ...

Furthermore, the Bf109 continued to be a major part of the Luftwaffe ... cunning of RAF pilots made them a force to be reckoned with. Perhaps the most celebrated aircraft of WWII in Britain ...

After 16 months’ training, he was sent overseas with the 98th Bombardment Group, first to Casablanca, then Southern Italy, where Art piloted the B-24 Liberator, a slow, drafty bomber nicknamed ...

The first fighter pilots fought in cloth and ... part and claiming 80% of destroyed enemy aircraft between July and October 1940. Before the World War II, Germany, which was still under armament ...

By October 1944, Zeros were being used by kamikaze pilots, who made deliberate ... The Junkers Ju-88 was one of the primary aircraft used by the Luftwaffe in WWII. A multirole plane, the Ju ...

As the World War II bomber Heaven Can Wait was hit by enemy fire off the Pacific island of New Guinea on March 11, 1944, the ...