German engineers and scientists created some exceptional and novel military designs during WWII. Granted, not everything they created was an instant success, and they even created one fighter jet ...

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 ...

The British government claimed that eating carrots helped its fighter pilots shoot down German planes at night. In truth, the ...

A service is being held to remember the last German aircraft to be brought down over British soil during World War Two. On 4 March 1945, a German aircraft crashed at Elvington near York killing ...

Ahead of Sky HISTORY's brand new series 'Commando Missions', learn the true story of four of the most audacious and high-risk ...

The Ilyushin Il-2 was a single-engine monoplane that was given the nicknames the "Hunchback" for its bulbous cockpit and "Flying Tank" for its heavy armor. The Ilyushin Il-2 was instrumental ...

Flags will be flown at half mast by the Danish royal palace on Wednesday to commemorate the 85th anniversary of Denmark’s ...

Greenville native Miles Richard "Dick" League, a colonel in the U.S. Air Force, fought in World War II. He was a prisoner of ...