He is a German Luftwaffe ace with 81 confirmed victories on the Eastern front. Now a 103-year-old veteran, his talent[...] ...
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Defying the Luftwaffe: How Britain won the battle that changed World War II
In the summer of 1940, Britain stood alone against the might of the German Luftwaffe as Hitler sought to crush the Royal Air ...
Not all heroes of the sky fought the same way. During World War II, two German pilots, Erich Hartmann and Hans-Joachim Marseille, rose above the chaos with unmatched skill and vision. While the war ...
On July 1, 1943, the Soviet air force on the Eastern Front numbered 8,491 planes. Second-line air formations possessed an additional 2,662 aircraft. But organizational flaws in the Soviet training ...
Here’s What You Need to Know: It was history’s greatest air war. The Eastern Front was the decisive theater of World War II in Europe. German premier Adolf Hitler’s disastrous 1941 order to invade the ...
Two WWII ace pilots, Col. Clarence "Bud" Anderson and Cmdr. Dean "Diz" Laird, both over 100 years old, took a celebratory flight in a Boeing Stearman biplane. The flight was arranged by Dream Flights, ...
The U.S. Air Force rates Lockheed’s needle-nosed F-104 as its finest interceptor. But in West Germany, the Starfighter has won a different label: “the flying coffin.” The Luftwaffe’s fleet of some 700 ...
Building an air force -- The Nazis and Eaker -- Spaatz and Eaker go to England -- First mission and the move to North Africa -- Casablanca and fighters in North Africa -- Romance, submarines, and ...
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