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Almost out of fuel and ammunition, Me262s of JV44 returning to base in southern Germany, have been caught in a surprise attack by P-51 Mustangs of the 353rd Fighter Group as they attempt to land. At this point the P-51 has been forced to break away from the damaged Me262 as covering Fw190s arrive in the area.
Despite their superior speed, the Me262s...
For two years following the Italian Declaration of War against Britain in the summer of 1940, the tiny island of Malta became one of the most heavily bombed places on earth as the Axis air forces fought to force it into surrender. They hadn’t reckoned on the island’s resolve.
German High Command had long recognised that control of Malta, with its naval dockyards and RAF...
This is the first time we’ve ever seen an edition featuring an original 'Sailor' Malan signature!
On 7 September 1940 Adolf Hitler, in league with his deputy and Luftwaffe chief Herman Goering, made an irrational blunder, a miscalculation of such magnitude that it would unwittingly lead RAF Fighter Command to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. Fighter...
Commemorating the 80th Anniversary of the Battle of Britain 1940 – 2020
From the day they’d moved down from Scotland in early August, 602 Squadron had been in the front line of the air fighting over southern England, bearing the brunt of the Luftwaffe’s increasing attacks. Based at Westhampnett, a satellite of nearby...
It was the foundation upon which the Luftwaffe was built and flew throughout WWII. It was flown by some of the greatest fighter Aces of all time, and credited with more air victories than any other fighter in history. It was the Messerschmitt Bf109.
One of the finest fighter aircraft ever to take to the skies, the Bf109 was flown by the Luftwaffe’s greatest Aces - men like Hartmann,...
When Luftwaffe bombers first appeared in force in the night skies over London in September 1940 they heralded the beginning of The Blitz - the most sustained period of concentrated bombing aimed at British cities during WWII.
Robert Taylor’s evocative painting brings to life the frightening scenario of the Luftwaffe’s night bombing campaign. It is December 1941, and London is once...
Me109’s from 1./JG51 and Spitfires of 54 Squadron clash head-on over Kent as the unit dives into a formation of Me110s from KPRG210. It is 54 Squadron’s third and final sortie of the day, early evening on Sunday 18 August 1940, at the end of the hardest week of fighting during the Battle of Britain. In the distance a group of Hurricanes tear in to a formation of Do17s from KG76 as they too...
Commemorating the 80th Anniversary of the Battle of Britain
Just 2,936 fighter pilots and aircrew flew against the mighty Luftwaffe during the Battle of Britain and were entitled to wear the rare ‘Battle of Britain Clasp’ to their war medal. To earn that right and become one of ‘The Few’, they had to fly at...
TUESDAY 17 AUGUST 1943
Exactly a year after the Eighth Air Force had completed its first ‘official’ mission of the war, 17 August 1943 saw them undertake their most ambitious raid to date – a two-pronged ‘double strike’ deep into the heart of Bavaria. The Eighth’s B-17s were going deeper into the Reich than ever before and, like the raid on...
Throughout the long hot summer of 1940 the destiny of the British Isles, indeed the future of Europe, laid in the hands of a small band of young RAF fighter pilots. Against them stood the vast aerial fleets of an all powerful Luftwaffe, gloating and confident from its victories in Poland, France and the Low Countries. Lying in wait across the Channel, anticipating an easy victory by its air...
