The story of the mostly 554 Anglo-Argentine pilots ... Force in World War II, of which 122 died in combat, will be published in a book to be launched next August titled “Thunder Wings ...

Off the coast of Japan 80 years ago, a U.S. naval captain ordered his battleship to hold a burial at sea for a kamikaze pilot ...

The wing failed, the airplane dropped ... scourge” in the hands of the best German pilots: Boelcke; Ernst Udet, later a World War II Luftwaffe general; and Max Immelmann, namesake of a maneuver ...

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 ...

"Silent Wings - The American Glider Pilots of WWII" narrated by Hal Holbrook, reveals the critical role gliders played in World War II offensives. Through rare archival footage and photographs ...

As Olson recounts: “The Focke-Wulf pilots were dumbfounded: never before had an Allied fighter challenged the Luftwaffe so far ... the Army Air Forces in World War II.” Yet, thanks in large ...

Stewart was one of two surviving combat pilots from the World War II-era 332nd Fighter Group, a segregated all-Black wing of the United ... he recalled. The Luftwaffe pilot followed suit but ...

"Bud" Anderson arrived in the European Theater of World War II in 1943, an experienced pilot at a time when many ... of the 355th Tactical Fighter Wing and its complement of F-105 Thunderchiefs ...

A fighter pilot in a vastly outnumbered Royal Air ... 3,000 pilots and crew who saved Britain in the early stages of World War II. Mr. Hemingway, who was known as Paddy, piloted Hurricane fighters ...