En el otoño de 1943, la defensa del Reich contra las incursiones de los bombarderos aliados, tanto de día como de noche, estaba desangrando a la Luftwaffe. Desde el verano del año anterior, los bombarderos norteamericanos B-17 Flying Fortress de la 8ª Fuerza Aérea habían estado bombardeando de...read more

After the fall of France in May 1940, the British Expeditionary Force was miraculously evacuated from Dunkirk. Britain now stood alone to face Hitler’s inevitable invasion attempt. For the German army to land across the channel, Hitler needed mastery of the skies—the Royal Air Force would have...read more

In the summer and fall of 1940, German and British air forces clashed in the skies over the United Kingdom, locked in the largest sustained bombing campaign to that date. A significant turning point of World War II, the Battle of Britain ended when Germany’s Luftwaffe failed to gain air...read more