When the Focke-Wulf Fw 190, dubbed the 'Butcher Bird', first clawed its way into the skies over France during the Dieppe Raid in 1942, it marked a new chapter in aerial combat. The Luftwaffe's agile fighter swiftly wrested air superiority from the Royal Air Force, outclassing the then-dominant Spitfire Mk. V. With a rich combat…
A Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress of the 365th Bombardment Squadron of the 305th Bombardment Group flies over England in February 1944. The American bomber
A total of 2,259 F-100s were built between 1953 and 1959. The active-duty USAF and the U.S. Air National Guard (ANG) retired the aircraft in 1971 and 1979 respectively but they remained in service with the Royal Danish Air Force and Turkish Air Force as late as 1982.
The Consolidated B-24 Liberator was a bomber that truly lived up to its name as it helped “liberate” Europe from the Nazis but also went on to play a prominent role in the Pacific and Far East theaters of World War II.