The Messerschmitt Bf 109 is the most famous German fighter of WWII, but its origin story is full of bizarre twists. We ...

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 ...

The German Bf 109 Became Infamous During the Battle of Britain – The Messerschmitt Bf 109 is the most famous German aircraft of the Second World War. In many ways, the aircraft mirrored Nazi Germany’s ...

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 ...

Once World War I ended, Germany was forced to sign the Treaty of Versailles, which forbade the nation from maintaining an air force. But when Hitler rose to power in the early 1930s, he began to ...

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 ...