One night in November 1944, a Bristol Beaufighter crew—pilot Edward Schlueter ... “Smokey Stover” firefighter cartoon: “foo fighters.” Reports kept coming in. The objects flew alongside ...

A Beaufighter gets worked on by a maintenance ... quickly caught on as the sobriquet for America’s first dedicated night fighter: Black Widow. Six months later, the first combat-ready P-61s ...

around 850 B17s flew over Europe during the daytime hours while the RAF Bomber Command flew at night. Another fighter aircraft with a nickname was the Bristol Beaufighter. Also known as the ...