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The final aerial victory of the European Air War on May 8, 1945
There are multiple reports of the aerial combats between American and Soviet aircraft on May 8 and thereafter.
After Adolf Hitler died by suicide on...
Ex-Pakistan Air Force pilot, awarded for claiming 3 alleged victories during the Six-Day War, passed away
In the June 1967 War, Saif ul-Azam claimed and received credit for shooting down three Israeli jets. But his statements continue to be "unclear."
Saif...
Crossbows, Big Bens and Divers: a quick look at Allied Operations against Hitler’s V-Weapons
In July and August 1944 approximately 30 percent of RAF Bomber Command sorties and tonnage was directed against V-1 and V-2 sites, as was...
Luftwaffe fighter pilot Werner Mölders, who developed the finger-four formation
His innovative strategies had such a profound effect that eventually all of the participating air forces in World War II adopted his pair system,...
Why Hitler’s bombardment of Guernica in the Spanish Civil War was his greatest success
The world believed that the Luftwaffe could easily burn down entire cities as a result of the greatly inflated tales of the bombing, which...