German engineers and scientists created some exceptional and novel military designs during WWII. Granted, not everything they created was an instant success, and they even created one fighter jet ...

My father, Mel Bragman, at Wattisham, England during World War II. He was a member of the 479th Squadron, also known as Riddle's Raiders, circa 1945.The vehicle is an ammo carrier.

It was the spring of 1943, at the height of World War II. Two pilots, members of the Soviet Air Force, were flying their planes — Polikarpov Po-2 biplanes, built mainly of plywood and canvas ...

Toward the end of World War 2, mission updates from the 415th Night Fighter Squadron took a mysterious turn. Along with details of dogfights over the German-occupied Rhine Valley, pilots began ...

World War II aircraft were painted in a wide assortment of colors, from shades of gray to olive drab, blue, and camouflage patterns. British planes were painted Dark Earth, Dark Green, and Night ...

Squadron Leader Bob Cowper, who has died aged 93, is thought to have been the last surviving Australian fighter "ace" of the Second World War. Flying night fighters, he was credited with ...

In the Nazi-occupied Soviet Union, German soldiers had a very real fear of witches. Namely, the “Night Witches,” an all-female squadron of bomber pilots who ran thousands of daring bombing ...

Frederic Sargent was studying economics at Colby College in Maine when the draft for World War II beckoned. In 1942, the 22-year-old joined the 415th Night Fighter Squadron of the Army Air Forces ...

German fighter planes were deadly in WWII, ... when Fw190 pilots went up against a squadron of Spitfires ... In response the Bf 110 was equipped with radar — making it a successful night fighter.

The first unit to take part in combat—on April 16, 1942, less than six months after its formation—was the 586th Fighter Aviation Regiment. It was equipped with a variety of aircraft in the ...