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 ...

Germany invades Poland, leading Great Britain and France to declare war against Germany. May 15, 1940 In the first large scale “bombing war,” Britain’s Royal Air Force (RAF) bombs the Ruhr area of ...

THE FIRST AND THE LAST: THE RISE & FALL OF THE GERMAN FIGHTER FORCES, 1938-1945 (368 pp.]—Adolf Galland—Holf ($4.95). War memoirs fall generally into two classes—front-line yarns and headquarters ...

A lack of orthodox aircraft saw the Luftwaffe fall short in its challenge for WWII air superiority At the start of the Battle of Britain in July 1940, Germany’s Luftwaffe had 1,100 Messerschmitt 109 ...

On January 1, 1945, the skies over Western Europe erupted in one of the most intense air battles of World War II. The German Luftwaffe launched Operation Boden Plata, a high-risk attack against ...

Flying high over Berlin on April 17, 1945, Ivan Kozhedub maneuvered his La-7 with the precision that had made him the Soviet ...

German airmen who crashed in Ireland during the Second World War and survived were interned here, becoming objects of great curiosity among local people who encountered them, as Ryle Dwyer discovers.

A refurbished wartime pillbox has been opened up for the first time since 1945 to commemorate the Filton Blitz, which killed more than 140 people. Bristol Aeroplane Company's works and airfield were ...

3 colour charts in pocket inside back cover of vol. 1. 2 colour charts and an appendix inside back cover of vol. 2. v. 2 written also with J. Richard Smith and Tom Willis. v. 1. Pre-war development, ...