The Yak-9 performed more anti-tank missions, in particular, the Yak-9T variant with a 37mm cannon, in this case the ...

Remains of the Junkers Ju 88 aircraft found in Sicily. Credit: Elio Nicosia / Soprintendenza del Mare In a recent discovery that adds yet another piece to the complex mosaic of World War II in the ...

The He 111 made its maiden flight on February 24, 1935, and entered into the official operational service of “die Vaterland” later that year. The Heinkel wielded a payload of 4,400 lbs. of bombs in ...

The frigid and oxygen-poor water of Norway's Kilsfjord preserved a rare Junkers Ju 88, which salvagers hoisted last August. Douglas Hinton On August 31, 2000, the vertical fin of a Junkers Ju 88A-5 ...

Born from the Ju 88 bomber, the Ju 388 was Germany’s desperate answer to high-altitude B-29s. With BMW 801 engines, heavy cannons, and night-fighter radar, it flew to 43,000 feet, but entered service ...

National Air and Space Museum Technical Reference Files: Aircraft, NASM.XXXX.1183.A, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution. National Air and Space Museum Technical Reference Files: ...

Nazi Germany was thankfully on the losing end of the ledger during World War II, and as such, the Luftwaffe’s bombers didn’t reach the heights of fame that Allied bombers, such as the American B-17 ...