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 ...

This collection consists of 67 black and white captured German photographs from a variety of sources that Eisen removed from the Air Document Research Center, as they were going to be discarded. The ...

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 ...

Air power may have proved lethally effective during the First World War, but the technology was still in its infancy. By 1939, however, European air forces as well as North American and Asian powers ...

An American pilot captured during WW2 carried out an extraordinary escape by taking control of a German fighter aircraft from ...

"Some of this material has previously appeared in the Orbis reference set 'Airplane'."--T.p. verso. https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=liball ...

Punctuality, efficiency, and a Nazi past? As Lufthansa turns 100, here’s a look at the German national airline’s brush with ...