The first day of 1945 did not go the way Royal Air Force air controller Sgt. Peter Crowest expected it to. Shortly after reporting for duty at 9:00 a.m. at the airfield at Ursel, Belgium, Crowest and ...
The Planes of Fame Air Museum in Chino, California, celebrated World War II airplanes and combat survivors at a recent event named Luftwaffe vs. the Eighth Air Force. The museum’s own Focke-Wulf ...
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World War II fighter Germany mocked until it destroyed the Luftwaffe
The Republic P-47 Thunderbolt entered World War II as an object of ridicule, dismissed by German pilots as slow, heavy, and ...
Frankfurt, West Germany, May 1953: World War II veterans of the Luftwaffe’s Werner Moelders wing inspect an F-84 Thunderjet during a visit to Rhein-Main Air Base, where some of them were stationed in ...
On July 1, 1943, the Soviet air force on the Eastern Front numbered 8,491 planes. Second-line air formations possessed an additional 2,662 aircraft. But organizational flaws in the Soviet training ...
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The collapse of the Luftwaffe: Galland’s struggle in World War II
The Collapse of the Luftwaffe Galland’s Struggle in World War II follows General Adolf Galland, one of Germany's top fighter ...
Here’s What You Need to Remember: The 56 th, better known as Zemke’s Wolfpack after its legendary first ace commander, was the only unit in the strategic-bombing-focused 8 th Air Force not to trade ...
The U.S. Air Force rates Lockheed’s needle-nosed F-104 as its finest interceptor. But in West Germany, the Starfighter has won a different label: “the flying coffin.” The Luftwaffe’s fleet of some 700 ...
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