John 'Paddy' Hemingway joined the RAF at the age of 19 and became one of the airmen Winston Churchill described as 'The Few' ...

Irl Mitchell, left, swaps war stories with former German Luftwaffe pilot Horst Petzschler Sept. 22 in Wichita. Petzschler spoke to members of the Wichita chapter of the Distinguished Flying Cross.

At 21, he was a fighter pilot in the Battle of Britain, a three-month period when air force personnel defended the skies ...

HERO Battle of Britain pilot Group Captain John “Paddy” Hemingway — the Last of the Few — died yesterday aged 105. He was the ...

Lightweight. Simple. Fast. The F-104 Starfighter was designed, in a time of increasing aircraft complexity and size, to be a straightforward, single-engine rocket ship, capable of intercepting and ...

Two pilots and five technicians make up the «Alarmrotte Nord,» also known as «Quick Reaction Alert,» or QRA for short. Their task is to secure the airspace over the German Baltic coast ...

In the opening hours of World War II, in the early morning skies over Poland, both the Axis and the Allied side had aerial victories and aerial “firsts”, ...

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The siege of Leningrad started on September 8, 1941 and lasted 872 days. On September 10, German Luftwaffe pilots bombed and burnt the city’s warehouses, as a result of which Leningrad was left ...

The RAF’s ranks were also boosted by pilots from Poland and Czechoslovakia, who had escaped capture by the German military. By September 1940, the Luftwaffe was not able to sustain the losses it ...

Fly with World War II's finest pilots: The 357th Fighter Group ... in a classic fight for the sky against the deadly German Luftwaffe. Become a member of the 357th. Advertisement Heroes Of ...