The backbone of the Luftwaffe's air superiority rested with the Messerschmitt Bf 109, a single-engine fighter plane that saw combat from the start of the war in 1936 until the bitter end in 1945.

The bomb markings on World War II–era aircraft are "victory marks" and signify successful missions and defeated enemies, and ...

The heaviest single-engine fighter used by any country during the war, the P-47 Thunderbolt was also the most widely used American fighter aircraft, with nearly 15,700 units produced between 1941 ...

The Spitfire’s Surprising Role in World War II: More Than Just a Fighter Apart perhaps from the B-17 “Flying Fortress,” no other World War II aircraft is as famous as the Supermarine Spitfire.

Interwar development resulted in entirely new classes of planes such as bombers, night fighters, and ground ... The Messerschmitt Bf 109 was the main German fighter of World War II and the most ...

World War II witnessed tremendous growth in the size of American military aviation, from about 2,500 airplanes to nearly 300,000 by the war’s end. The Museum’s collection of 30 World War II-era ...

CLERMONT COUNTY, Ohio (WKRC) - Historic planes took flight at the Tri-State Warbird Museum Saturday. The museum held demonstrations of the B-25 bomber and P-51 fighter planes from World War II.

Two vintage aircraft that crashed midair Saturday at a Dallas air show once belonged to a massive arsenal of World War 2-era fighter planes. The aircraft, however, diverged entirely in their missions.

Dean “Diz” Laird, the only known Navy ace to shoot down both German and Japanese planes during World War II, has died, his daughter told CNN on Monday. He was 101.