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 ...

Despite to horridness of their cause, the pilots of the Luftwaffe were among the most successful of the Second World War. The most storied was Erich Hartmann, who scored 352 aerial wins during the ...

all our fighter pilots had parachutes - and as our pilots knew that Luftwaffe pilots had parachutes, the psychological effect of even seriously considering parachuteless Battle of Britain pilots ...

A GERMAN airman who bombed York during the Second World War has returned to the city 65 years later "to say sorry". Willi Schludecker was a 21-year-old pilot with the Luftwaffe during the 1942 ...

The stained glass window, by Hugh Easton, contains the badges of the fighter squadrons that took part ... On the opposite side a panel shows a sergeant pilot kneeling before the Crucifixion (a symbol ...

So much so that one of his treasured possessions is a fascinating book of aerial reconnaissance pictures of the UK – including many of Dorset and Hampshire, taken by Luftwaffe pilots.

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 ...

THE naming of new RNLI lifeboat revealed the story of how a German Luftwaffe fighter pilot ended up making a bequest to help keep the charity afloat. Redcar's volunteer crew took delivery of their ...

Carol Gluck - Columbia University ‘Claire Andrieu’s magisterial book examines how local civilian populations in the Second World War reacted to the unexpected presence amongst them of pilots who had ...

He had his first flight, in an Avro Avian light aircraft in about 1934 – when the family encountered a pilot doing joy flights ... His job was to emulate Luftwaffe fighters, undertaking an ...

Daredevil RAF pilot Zillessen, the last man in the tunnel ... he was instrumental in the escape from the Luftwaffe-run PoW ...