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Morane-Saulnier M.S. 406 was the most numerous French fighter aircraft at the beginning of WW2. Curtiss Hawk was the first ...
The top nine most destroyed Allied planes faced the full force of the Luftwaffe’s elite fighter aces. From the Hurricane and ...
He is a German Luftwaffe ace with 81 confirmed victories on the Eastern front. Now a 103-year-old veteran, his talent[...] ...
Air combat tactics developed by Russian fighter pilot Alexander Pokryshkin proved to be the decisive factor in the powerful Luftwaffe’s defeat, which ultimately ground down the German blitzkrieg. The ...
On May 12, 1944, Luftwaffe ace Gunther Rall, in a dogfight over Germany with American fighter pilots, had already shot down two P-47 Thunderbolts. Rall suddenly discovered he was targeted by four ...
A fighter pilot has fulfilled a lifelong dream of flying in a Spitfire - at the age of 95. Hugo Broch was among the most celebrated pilots in the Luftwaffe during World War II and is credited with ...
A German Second World War pilot has made his maiden voyage in a Spitfire seven decades after he flew for the Luftwaffe. Hugo Broch, 95, who last flew in 1960, took to the skies above Kent on Tuesday ...