Throughout World War II, the race to build the fastest fighter planes was necessary to win the war in the air. Whichever side ...

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 ...

World War II saw a great deal of innovation ... These days, it's regarded as the U.K.'s worst WWII fighter, and there's little to disprove that assertion. German aircraft manufacturers worked ...

The fierce shark teeth on some warplanes have their roots in World Wars I and II, and they continue on today. Here's why ...

A coal-fueled flying triangle, a product of desperation, and a piece of history that questions the limits of wartime ...

While other theatres did have a call on the fighter wings, by far and away the bulk of German day fighters in this period was employed in the air defence of Germany. The core of the day fighter ...

The Spitfire is the most famous plane of World War ... and German commander Herman Goering confidently predicted victory would only take a few days. Britain stepped up the production of fighter ...

By Richard Goldstein Col. Perry Dahl, an Army Air Forces fighter pilot who shot down nine enemy aircraft in the Pacific during World War II while surviving emergency landings, a runway crash ...