Join WWII P-51 ace Col. Joe Peterburs at the American Heritage Museum's Historic Aviation Weekend, September 13-14, 2025.

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 ...

John "Lucky" Luckadoo flew 25 bombing missions over Europe during the war, surviving some of the most intense air battles of ...

Summary: During World War II, the strategic bomber offensive tested the balance between bombers and fighters, evolving from the early limitations demonstrated in the Battle of Britain to the ...

The Luftwaffe produced the highest-scoring fighter aces in history, and their aircraft carried the marks to prove it. This ...

AeroTime looks back at the World War II Allied ace pilots from the US, UK, France and Soviet Union who became legends of the ...

The first day of 1945 did not go the way Royal Air Force air controller Sgt. Peter Crowest expected it to. Shortly after reporting for duty at 9:00 a.m. at the airfield at Ursel, Belgium, Crowest and ...

People don't intentionally set themselves up for failure, and things aren't deliberately built to malfunction. But when desperate times call for desperate measures, mechanical solutions that follow ...

If you missed World War II in Europe, Aug. 28-31 is your opportunity to see the world's first jet fighter on the ground for ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The strategic bomber offensive over Europe pitted some of the world’s most advanced bombers against some of its most advanced fighters. When war broke out in ...

After a decades-long effort to find and identify his remains, an Army bomber crewman — shot down over Nazi Germany during World War II — will soon be buried at the veterans cemetery in Killeen.

A World War II veteran who was a prisoner of war in Germany during the last few weeks of the war will be celebrating his 100th birthday soon — and will be returning to Germany for the first time since ...