Nazi engineers developed some of the most ambitious and unconventional aircraft concepts of World War II. This countdown ...

In 1943, when Nazi field marshal Hermann Göring demanded that the Luftwaffe’s next bomber aircraft be able to carry a 1,000-kilogram bomb load 1,000 kilometers into enemy territory at a speed ...

This aircraft would go on to play a vital role in the German Luftwaffe’s campaigns across Europe, North Africa, the ...

Near the end of World War II, the Luftwaffe designed a bomber that could carry out transatlantic missions, putting New York ...

A critical advantage to the Mosquito’s wooden construction was its relatively light weight—giving it a fantastic top speed of ...

German term for an air force. It was also the official name for the Nazi air force founded in 1935. Led by Hermann Goering, it became the largest and most powerful in Europe by the start of World War ...

They even found out what time the Luftwaffe commandant was due ... was almost completed when one of the retreating bombers was struck by anti-aircraft fire. The Mosquito crashed some 50 miles ...

In 1940 Hitler sent 2,600 Luftwaffe fighters and bombers to destroy the Royal Air ... the summer hundreds of Spitfires were shipped in by aircraft carriers. These improved Spitfire Mark Vs had ...

But the Spitfire’s fond remembrance has obscured the feats of another aircraft ... was tasked with the bombers was because it was slower than both the Spitfire and the Luftwaffe’s ...

They were built as fake WWII factories, airfields and towns to fool Luftwaffe night ... "Every single one of these bombers was going to do damage - so you have aircraft shooting other aircraft ...

Ministers felt it unlikely that the bombers could reach Belfast from ... Belfast had been lit up by hundreds of flares as the Luftwaffe aircraft dropped a barrage of incendiaries, high explosive ...