The German Luftwaffe was one of the most dreaded organizations of the Second World War. Its machines dominated the skies over Europe for years before the Allied forces were able to put up a notable ...

In the three years preceding the start of the Second World War, another major conflict was raging in Spain. Taking advantage of the fighting between the country's Republicans and Nationalists, Nazi ...

The Messerschmitt Bf 109, often mistakenly referred to as the Me 109, was one of the most iconic fighter aircraft of World War II, designed by Willy Messerschmitt and produced initially under ...

Over 80 years after its crash, Hans Pills’ Messerschmitt BF-109 has been rediscovered beneath a Maltese construction site.

Use the controls at the bottom of the frame to navigate, zoom in and out, or view full-screen. The Messerschmitt Bf 109 was the spearhead of the German fighter force in World War II, unchallenged ...

https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.11033237.2 https://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.11033237.2 Willy Messerschmitt was the managing director of the Bayerische Flugzeugwerke A.G ...

Andrea Lusini, a non-commissioned officer belonging to the 37° Stormo, sent me the following interesting pictures of the remains of a Messerschmitt Bf 109 (a chunk of fuselage, from the seat to the ...

In the mid-1930s, Nazi Germany had a problem. Its twin-engined medium bombers, such as the Heinkel 111, had a range of perhaps 1,500 miles. However, the Luftwaffe’s single-engined fighter plane, the ...

First conceived by Messerschmitt as a carrier-borne fighter, the Me 155 morphed into a high-speed attack plane and later a high-altitude interceptor known as the Blohm & Voss BV 155. An agreement on ...