The Ta 183 combined boldly swept wings, a compact fuselage, and Heinkel’s HeS 011 turbojet, though prototypes were to rely ...

The Luftwaffe’s Arado Ar 196 pictured off the British coast, c 1930-40 - Prisma by Dukas Presseagentur GmbH / Alamy Stock Photo “The appearance of the bombers in mass was the turning point in the ...

Objects begin appearing in the snow before digging even starts. A forgotten wartime dump yields porcelain marked by the Luftwaffe gas masks railway items and military badges. Together these relics ...

Whoever conjured up the proverb “The pen is mightier than the sword” didn’t bother commenting on how the pencil fit into that discussion. Granted, a pencil isn’t generally thought of as a warfighting ...

There is no shortage of books on the Battle of Britain, but Victoria Taylor, a young British historian, promises readers something different: looking at the battle from the German side, and ...

Hans Jeschonnek was 15 when he decided he joined the German army in the First World War. Early on he embraced militarism and showed much potential. As he rose through the ranks of the German army, he ...

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 ...

Translation of Markierungen und Tarnanstriche der Luftwaffe im 2. Weltkrieg https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=liball&source=~!silibraries&uri ...

Britain’s Air Ministry claimed last week that British air operations on the Western Front were keeping 50% of the Luftwaffe’s fighter strength away from the Eastern Front. Without offering facts to ...

Because of its ability to attack targets that were hundreds of miles away from its airbases in England, the bombers of World War II were vital assets to the Allied war effort. Tasked with the ...