The German Luftwaffe entered World War II in September 1939 employing as its main day fighter the Messerschmitt Bf109 one of the classic fighter aircraft designs of all time When war broke out it ...

A service is being held to remember the last German aircraft to be brought down over British soil during World War Two. On 4 March 1945, a German aircraft crashed at Elvington near York killing ...

The RAF called for reinforcements and over the summer hundreds of Spitfires were shipped in by aircraft carriers ... to carry out attacks on German ground forces. WW2: What was the secret to ...

At the outbreak of war, she continued to work as a seamstress in the city, witnessing first hand the damage wrought by the German bombing campaign of "The Blitz" on her journeys to and from work.