Just days after Germany invaded Poland, French fighter pilots intercepted and shot down one of the Luftwaffe’s rising stars - Leutnant Wilhelm Schilling. This video revisits the first combat success ...

Ed’s fighter sustained a 20 mm cannon shell hit from one of ... Cottrell was unexpectedly escorted back to friendly lines by two of the Luftwaffe pilots who, rather than shooting him down, flew ...

While serving in Germany’s Luftwaffe in World War II ... What made Hartmann such a great fighter pilot? Hartmann was in the early cohort of German pilots who got exhaustive training before ...

Its precepts would guide every subsequent generation of fighter pilots ... the hands of the best German pilots: Boelcke; Ernst Udet, later a World War II Luftwaffe general; and Max Immelmann ...

You might expect a warplane to be pained in drab, neutral colors that fade into the background. But that's not what Germany ...

Luftwaffe pilots chased the plane ... "And so he, like many young men, signed up to do his part, and he became a fighter pilot,” Hinnant said. Back outside Herxheim, Germany, bits of metal ...

Three years after West Germany founded its air force (the Luftwaffe), its first squadron of fighter aircraft was created. The ...

Essentially, the Battle of Britain might be portrayed as a “David versus Goliath” struggle as the pilots of RAF Fighter Command wrestled against daunting odds to deny the Luftwaffe air ...

The heavy attacks brought Luftwaffe fighter planes out in force and that was exactly what the Allies, and particularly the day-fighting U.S. Strategic Command, wanted to see. The air battles were ...