When war broke out in September 1939, none of the combatants were prepared to fight in the way that they wanted. The British lacked the heavy bombers that interwar doctrine suggested that would be ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The strategic bomber offensive over Europe pitted some of the world’s most advanced bombers against some of its most advanced fighters. When war broke out in ...

The Heinkel He 111, one of the best-recognized German bombers of World War II, was developed in the early 1930s by Siegfried and Walter Günter at Heinkel Flugzeugwerke as Germany's secret project ...

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 ...

In WW2, the British made destroying German dams a key strategic target in order to kneecap the German industrial effort. To accomplish this, they needed a special plane to deliver the payload: the ...