During World War II, air combat in Western Europe mostly took place at high altitudes, where German fighters like the Messerschmitt Bf 109 and the Focke-Wulf Fw 190 operated at maximum effectiveness.

A memorial for a U.S. B-17 bomber crew is unveiled in Épagne-Épagnette, France, Saturday, June 22, 2024, near the site where the plane crashed during World War II. (Phillip Walter Wellman/Stars ...

War museum's WW2 USAAF photo appeal identifies girls. Published. 3 January 2015. Share. close ... employed 450,000 Americans in Britain and the majority of them were not fighter pilots or bomber crew.

A Space Force guardian escorted the remains of her great-great-uncle Staff Sgt. Loring E. Lord, a U.S. Army Air Forces gunner ...

Message 2 - RAF Ground crew - Channel 4 Series on Bomber Crews in WW2 Posted on: 22 June 2004 by Bombergirl. I also read with interest your article about your service as Ground Crew.

2nd Lt. Thomas V. Kelly Jr. was buried beside his parents and sister in the California town he left in 1943. For many years after 2nd Lt. Thomas V. Kelly Jr. was killed in World War II, his parents ...