Hans-Joachim Marseille shot down 17 aircraft in one day over Egypt. Known as the “Star of Africa,” he was the Luftwaffe’s top ...

Explore the forgotten heroes of the Soviet Air Force who turned the tide of WWII from the skies above Moscow to the fields of ...

French fighter pilots intercepted and shot down one of the Luftwaffe’s rising stars - Leutnant Wilhelm Schilling. This video revisits the first combat success for the French Air Force in WWII ...

The colors for German Luftwaffe planes ... that dominated World War II) bearing these yellow markings, they initially thought the color might identify them as German aces who had shot down ...

According to Russian educators and state-controlled media, the Soviet Union defeated Nazi Germany single-handedly.

Victory in Europe Day, or VE Day, marks the moment on May 8, 1945, when the Second World War came to an end in Europe as Nazi Germany ...

A collage of the flying aces from New Hampshire and Maine.

The program to train World War II British pilots was launched in 1941 under the provisions of the Lend-Lease Act.

The literal, physical fight to protect American bombers against the ravages of Nazi German Luftwaffe fighter planes, which saved the lives of many a B-17 Flying Fortress and B-24 Liberator crewmembers ...