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 ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The strategic bomber offensive over Europe pitted some of the world’s most advanced bombers against some of its most advanced fighters. When war broke out in ...

German crews gave the Heinkel He 177 one of the most damning nicknames of the war: the Luftwaffe’s Lighter. Built as ...

In the opening hours of World War II, in the early morning skies over Poland, both the Axis and the Allied side had aerial victories and aerial “firsts”, some involving unlikely and obscure aircraft ...

For many in the opening years of the Second World War, the vision of the menacing, gull-winged Stuka dive bomber, plunging vertically earthwards, its sirens wailing ...

In WW2, the British made destroying German dams a key strategic target in order to kneecap the German industrial effort. To accomplish this, they needed a special plane to deliver the payload: the ...

When Tom Metcalfe left for England to fly bombers in World War II, he took a watch given to him by his parents for his 18th birthday in 1941.

Among the trees of a national forest park near Frankfurt, Germany, survey lines, pin flags and neatly aligned squares of excavation dotted the ground in precise rows. With ground-penetrating radar, ...