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 ...
National Security Journal on MSN
The P-51 Mustang Was the Best WWII Fighter
Pre-war air doctrine claimed massed, gun-bristling bombers could penetrate enemy airspace without escorts. Reality hit hard ...
By far the best American fighter of 1939, and by far the shiniest aircraft on this list, the Curtiss Hawk 75A scored the ...
The Anxious Adult on MSN
How Two German Pilots Changed the Course of Air Combat in WWII
Two daring German pilots didn’t just fly they rewrote the rules of air combat and changed the course of WWII forever.
World War II aircraft were painted in a wide assortment of colors, from shades of gray to olive drab, blue, and camouflage patterns. British planes were painted Dark Earth, Dark Green, and Night — a ...
OSHKOSH, Wis. (WBAY) - A classic plane will make its AirVenture debut next week: the German ME 262, the first jet fighter plane in the world. It hit the skies late in World War II, too late to reverse ...
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 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 ...
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