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.

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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.