Air combat, or “dogfighting,” has been a defining element of modern warfare since World War I. Pilots who mastered aerial combat and achieved significant numbers of enemy kills are remembered as some ...

The last time Willie Schludecker saw this northeastern England village he was in the cockpit of a German bomber during World War II. On May 1, 1942, his plane damaged by British fighters during a ...

When the hastily built Lavochkin La-5 fighter first soared into the aerial arena in July 1943, German pilots waved it off as inconsequential. They even condescendingly nicknamed it 'Neue Rata,' as if ...