
September 19th, 1942, 27,000 ft above Berlin, Oaloidnant Wilhelm Yornan’s gloved hand tightened on the throttle of his Messid BF109 G2 as he watched the…

On September 19th, 1942, 27,000 ft above Berlin, something happened that left the Luftwaffer confused for months. A Luftwaffer squadron leader in a Folk Wolf…

On the morning of June 19th, 1944, nearly 27,000 ft above the deep blue Philippine Sea, Japanese flight leader Lieutenant Yoshio may have been scanning…

The 48 hours that doomed Hitler’s last chance. How Allied air power destroyed Germany’s Panza counterattack before it began. You’ve probably heard that D-Day’s success…

Luftwaffe Aces Laughed At The ‘Flying Bathtub’ — Until 3,400 Rounds Per Minute Tore Them Apart The year is 1945. The sky over Germany belongs…

Voices from ground control. Unknown fighters. Silver aircraft approaching from the southeast. The veteran pilot furrows his brow. Southeast? That’s impossible. The nearest American fighter…

Voices from ground control. Unknown fighters. Silver aircraft approaching from the southeast. The veteran pilot furrows his brow. Southeast? That’s impossible. The nearest American fighter…

How a bomber pilot’s desperate act of physics rewrote the rules of aerial combat. August 1943, Solomon Islands. A B25 Mitchell bomber was already dead.…

The silence after the storm. The day American Hellcats erased an air force. Part one, the spectre in the sky. They called it the great…

4 miles above the Pacific, Lieutenant Commander Richard Best pushed his Dauntless into a near vertical dive. Below him, a Japanese carrier turned hard, her…




