Major Erich Hartmann would fly 1,404 operational sorties during WW2, engaging the enemy over 850 times and scoring 352 ...

While serving in Germany’s Luftwaffe in World War II ... What made Hartmann such a great fighter pilot? Hartmann was in the early cohort of German pilots who got exhaustive training before ...

A World War Two American fighter pilot has been surprised with a flight in a Mustang ... they came running at me - and then I heard a rumbling noise and up came a Luftwaffe [German air force] sergeant ...

Its precepts would guide every subsequent generation of fighter pilots ... the hands of the best German pilots: Boelcke; Ernst Udet, later a World War II Luftwaffe general; and Max Immelmann ...

Ed’s fighter sustained a 20 mm cannon shell hit ... Cottrell was unexpectedly escorted back to friendly lines by two of the Luftwaffe pilots who, rather than shooting him down, flew alongside ...

Luftwaffe pilots chased the plane ... "And so he, like many young men, signed up to do his part, and he became a fighter pilot,” Hinnant said. Back outside Herxheim, Germany, bits of metal ...

Three years after West Germany founded its air force (the Luftwaffe), its first squadron of fighter aircraft was created. The ...

The Luftwaffe heavily outnumbered the RAF. During the Battle of Britain, they had 2,550 fighter planes available, while the RAF only had 749. British pilots were also less experienced that the ...

A World War Two American fighter pilot has been surprised with a flight ... at me - and then I heard a rumbling noise and up came a Luftwaffe [German air force] sergeant on a motor cycle who ...