Not surprisingly, both nations produced some very impressive warbirds to help them defeat the Axis powers, and one ...

Probably the most famous fighter-bomber ever flown by any military ... face of the air war over Europe and the Pacific during ...

The P-51 Mustang, often hailed as the best operational piston-engined fighter of WWII, was rapidly developed by North ...

AeroTime looks at three pivotal events from World War II when aircraft and aerial battles reshaped the conflict and turned ...

The pilots of the RAF, who became known as "The Few", stood up to wave after wave of German fighters and bombers sending a ... of Britain dogfight in action. WW2: Did the war change life for ...

In 1940 Hitler sent 2,600 Luftwaffe fighters and bombers to destroy the Royal ... have what it takes to be part of the crew. WW2: How did the British plan to celebrate VE Day?

Sgt Leonard Shrubsall was part of the seven man crew of a Short Stirling Bomber The son of a crew member ... after it was shot down by a German night fighter. "I am so pleased they found the ...

The former Second World War RAF air base near York, Yorkshire Air Museum, has fired up the iconic British bomber engine The Hercules for the first time in 79 years. The Hercules engine ...

At the end of the 1962 film, The Longest Day, a young American paratrooper shares a cigarette somewhere in Normandy with a British fighter pilot ... of traumatised WW2 veterans, but one 1986 ...

If Russian bombers fly near Ireland ... Despite Ireland's neutrality in World War II, an estimated 80,000 of its citizens joined the British military, and its government allowed British anti ...

For the day fighters of the Luftwaffe ... combinations and employing new tactics to force down the U.S. heavy bombers.