The haunting wail that echoed across Europe during World War II often meant only one thing, the arrival of the German Junkers Ju 87 Stuka. Designed in the mid-1930s, this dive bomber became one of the ...

The Spitfire was a nimble fighter built on an all-metal airframe that gave a resounding British answer to the German fighters that had been dominating the war effort. Spitfires destroyed 529 enemy ...

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 — a ...

Combat is chaotic. Identifying friend from foe was critical in historical hand-to-hand fighting and continues to be so in the modern age. From the earliest standing militaries in the Middle East's ...

In the opening hours of World War II, in the early morning skies over Poland, both the Axis and the Allied side had aerial victories and aerial “firsts”, some involving unlikely and obscure aircraft ...