They had been enemies once, a long time ago. But as Horst Petzschler talked about what it was like to be a pilot in Germany’s Luftwaffe during World War II, the gray-haired men in the ...
But the passing of the years has turned former combatants into friends - and former Luftwaffe pilot Willi Schludecker came back to the region as a tourist. Now 87, he flew Dornier bombers in a ...
Many German pilots considered the FW-190 D the finest aircraft the Luftwaffe put into service. Though the A-8 variant had proven itself an excellent fighter when it entered service in 1941 ...
The Luftwaffe heavily outnumbered the RAF. During the Battle of Britain, they had 2,550 fighter planes available, while the RAF only had 749. British pilots were also less experienced that the ...
Britain ramped up factory production and by October had more fighter planes than the Luftwaffe Nearly 3,000 aircrew served with RAF Fighter Command The average age of a pilot was 20 The RAF lost ...