Shot down, captured, and held in a Nazi POW camp - this Allied pilot had every reason to give up. Instead, he took the ultimate gamble and stole a German bomber to make his escape. This unbelievable ...

Maj. Donald K. Willis crash-landed his plane in Nazi-occupied Holland then stopped at cafes for beers — all while evading the ...

In period between 1940 and 1943, the North African Campaign was a proving ground for some of WWII’s fiercest air combat. Among the chaos, one Allied pilot stood out - not for the number of kills ...

Some bombers like the B-17 had eating in the cockpit, but that didn't help the rest of the plane. Flight crews and pilots ...

In “Spitfires” by Becky Aikman, the saga of wartime American women pilots comes vividly to life.

Banned from flying in the U.S., these 25 American women headed to Britain to help ferry military aircraft—and fascinated the ...

Witnesses saw the brave pilot, from Leeds ... Operation Market Garden was an Allied military operation during WW2 fought in German-occupied Netherlands from September 17 to 25 1944.

These groups of female pilots were responsible for ferrying ... Andrée de Jongh founded and led the Comet Line during World War II, helping over 800 Allied soldiers escape occupied Europe to ...

How did radar play a crucial advantage for the Allied forces’ victory in WW2? AeroTime takes a look at how radar was deployed ...

According to the National WWII ... of Allied ships supporting the invasion. By the end of the war, 36 ships were sunk and another 368 damaged, according to the museum. Some 4,000 pilots died ...

Enclosed cockpits and increasingly powerful engines boosted aircraft capability in addition to the stress on pilot's bodies ... the only one it built for World War II. A Daimler-Benz DB601 ...