Once hailed as the master of the skies, Hermann Goering watched his Luftwaffe crumble. By 1944, Allied bombers ruled over Germany, fuel was gone, and the air war was lost. This episode follows the ...

Hans Jeschonnek was 15 when he decided he joined the German army in the First World War. Early on he embraced militarism and ...

The German desire to attack New York City in WW2 is well-known. However, in 2005, a previously unknown plan to[...] ...

The Do 17 made its maiden flight on November 23, 1934, and was officially adopted into the operational service of “die Vaterland” in 1937. Classified as a twin-engine light bomber, it was initially ...

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 ...

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 ...

NASM copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. The aviation industry at war -- 2. The aviation industry and the air war -- 3. Reorganization of aircraft production -- 4. From ...

In the opening hours of World War II, in the early morning skies over Poland, both the Axis and the Allied side had aerial victories and aerial “firsts”, some involving unlikely and obscure aircraft ...

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