Two daring German pilots didn’t just fly they rewrote the rules of air combat and changed the course of WWII forever.

THE FIRST AND THE LAST: THE RISE & FALL OF THE GERMAN FIGHTER FORCES, 1938-1945 (368 pp.]—Adolf Galland—Holf ($4.95). War memoirs fall generally into two classes—front-line yarns and headquarters ...

Adolf Galland, was a famous and influential German Luftwaffe general and flying ace who served throughout the Second World War in Europe. He flew 705 combat missions in the Defence of the Reich. Known ...

The appearance of the bombers in mass was the turning point in the aerial warfare of World War II. The era of sportsmanlike, ...

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 ...

On January 1st, 1945, the Allied Air Forces welcomed the New Year with an unexpected, low-level attack from the Luftwaffe. Named Operation Baseplate, or Operation Bodenplatte, the German attack ...