It was April of 1945, and Germany was in flames. The bombing raids had decimated the cities, towns, and factories where the ...

Image Credit: TSgt. Brad Fallin - Public Domain/Wiki Commons. Few machines capture the imagination like the sleek silhouette of a German warplane carving through the sky. Whether you remember catching ...

The Allied bombing campaign against Romanian oil refineries was bleeding the U.S. 15th Air Force dry. By August 1944, nearly half the bomber fleet, 350 aircraft, had been shot down over the Balkans.

Every country that participated in the World War II air war had more than a few types of airplanes, but their design schemes could be distinguished throughout the conflict. The Americans liked to ...

The German Luftwaffe entered World War II in September 1939 employing as its main day fighter the Messerschmitt Bf109 one of the classic fighter aircraft designs of all time When war broke out it was ...

German engineers and scientists created some exceptional and novel military designs during WWII. Granted, not everything they created was an instant success, and they even created one fighter jet that ...