A fighter pilot has recalled drinking with German soldiers to celebrate the end of World War Two. Noel Grugeon from Reading, ...

Joe dived to attack a German fighter, which had just shot down a fourth US bomber. The German pilot, Walter Schuck, remembered being attacked from behind by a Mustang that hit his left wing and ...

In 1944, the skies over Europe were a deadly chessboard. Richard Peterson, part of the 357th Fighter Group, faced off against the Luftwaffe’s top pilots. Amid brutal air combat, Peterson made a ...

There is simply no time beforehand. Today's mission is an exercise, however: A Eurofighter pilot is simulating the interception of another German fighter jet with his aircraft. In the Baltic Sea ...

The strategies of Eddie Rickenbacker’s era live on today with pilots flying F-22 Raptors in the 94th Fighter Squadron. On October 28, 1916, German pilot Oswald Boelcke, in flight with five ...

What made Hartmann such a great fighter pilot? Hartmann was in the early cohort of German pilots who got exhaustive training before they were sent to the Front. The Germans couldn’t sustain this ...

Whether pilots and crews drew pinups or painted ... Messerschmitt Bf 109 and the Focke-Wulf Fw 190, two of the best German fighter planes of WW2. The spirals worked well to promote safety.

A World War Two American fighter pilot has been surprised with a flight in a Mustang aeroplane 80 years to the day after he was shot down. Joe Peterburs was escorting United States Army Air Forces ...

A fighter pilot has recalled drinking with German soldiers to celebrate the end of World War Two. Noel Grugeon from Reading, Berkshire, known by loved ones as Bunny, was 19 years old on VE Day.

The tactics of a German fighter pilot offend his aristocratic comrades but win him his country's most honored medal, the Blue Max. A General finds him useful as a hero, though his wife finds him ...