German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Friday took part in a wreath-laying ceremony in Coventry, a central English city ...

Whether the German Luftwaffe could have won the Battle of Britain in 1940 has been a matter of debate almost from the time the first shot was fired. Now, a team of mathematicians at the University of ...

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 ...

How successful the R.A.F. offensive against Germany is in keeping the German air force away from Russia is anybody’s guess. But one reasonably informed guesstimate came last week from Peter Masefield, ...

This story is a selection from the September issue of Air & Space magazine In his new book, Shadow Over the Atlantic: The Luftwaffe and the U-Boats: 1943–45, Robert Forsyth sheds light on the ...

Building an air force -- The Nazis and Eaker -- Spaatz and Eaker go to England -- First mission and the move to North Africa -- Casablanca and fighters in North Africa -- Romance, submarines, and ...

Britain’s Air Ministry claimed last week that British air operations on the Western Front were keeping 50% of the Luftwaffe’s fighter strength away from the Eastern Front. Without offering facts to ...

Although the German Air Force of WWII, the Luftwaffe, was almost exclusively a battlefield air force, the historical footnote of German long-range, strategic aircraft is covered in a solid fashion by ...