Germany's blitzkrieg through France in June 1940 left the UK all alone against Adolf Hitler's Luftwaffe. It was also a wake up call for the U.S.- still on the sidelines of World War II - that its air ...

Hermann Göring dismissed Roosevelt’s 1940 call for 50,000 aircraft a year as fantasy. In 1940, that reaction seemed plausible ...

The Luftwaffe carried out raids on British urban targets for two months prior to the start of the Blitz, with the loss of over 1,000 civilian lives. Photo: Stukas in formation in April 1940. Stukas ...

Luftwaffe is a generic 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 first phase of the Battle of Britain focused on the English Channel, where the Luftwaffe attacked convoys and English ports. Photo: Soldiers at a defence post on the south-east coast anxiously ...

Adolf Galland understood air combat better than most senior Luftwaffe leaders because he had already seen range decide a ...