German engineers and scientists created some exceptional and novel military designs during WWII. Granted, not everything they created was an instant success, and they even created one fighter jet ...

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 ...

What made Hartmann such a great fighter pilot? Hartmann was in the early cohort of German pilots who got exhaustive training before they were sent to the Front. The Germans couldn’t sustain this ...

Eight decades after a Dutch Fokker D.VII Fighter was looted by Nazis ... of Jewish assets and those of countries occupied by German forces. He was the second most powerful official in Nazi ...

That meant a German fighter attacking a formation was taking ... That was particularly important for the Messerschmitt 262 jet fighters that were developed late in the war and were most vulnerable ...

Toward the end of World War 2, mission updates from the 415th Night Fighter Squadron took a mysterious turn. Along with details of dogfights over the German-occupied Rhine Valley, pilots began ...

It was a major break from Germany's defence policy, which has prevented the permanent deployment of troops abroad since the end of WWII. At present, there are 150 German troops stationed in the ...