On Sept. 7, 1940 — 80 years ago tonight — the German air force launched a massive series of attacks on London that would go on for 56 of the next 57 days and nights. The plan was to destroy the Royal ...

What aircraft are being sent out by commanders like Hermann Göring and Arthur Harris to blitz and firebomb enemy cities?

Because of its ability to attack targets that were hundreds of miles away from its airbases in England, the bombers of World War II were vital assets to the Allied war effort. Tasked with the ...

Keele University researchers have investigated three World War II Allied aerial bombing decoy sites in North Staffordshire, ...

Previously published in two vols as: Fighters of the Luftwaffe. 1993 - Bombers of the Luftwaffe. 1994. Omnibus ed. first published: 1997.

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 ...

The He 111 made its maiden flight on February 24, 1935, and entered into the official operational service of “die Vaterland” later that year. The Heinkel wielded a payload of 4,400 lbs. of bombs in ...

Across the country, towns banded together to support the war effort. However, one Surrey town is believed to have ...

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