Greenville native Miles Richard "Dick" League, a colonel in the U.S. Air Force, fought in World War II. He was a prisoner of ...

Moreover, it was the only German fighter to use ... when Fw190 pilots went up against a squadron of Spitfires -- one of the most innovative planes of WWII -- the Butcher Bird proved itself to ...

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 ... with American bombers and fighter planes.

But it made him rather over-confident, and for the next few days he regarded the German Air Force rather ... His citation reads: 'An outstanding fighter pilot who has now destroyed 8 enemy ...

It was thanks to former WWI pilot Tommy Hitchcock that the P-51 entered U.S service — and changed the skies over Europe ...

In terse notations, the logbook kept by Royal Air Force fighter pilot John “Paddy” Hemingway in the summer of 1940 records ...

In the opening hours of World War II, in the early morning skies over ... A large amount of German bombers and fighter escorts (mostly Messerschmitt Bf 110s) were amassed for these strikes ...

For some soldiers confined in German POW camps during World War II, ‘Monopoly’ was so much ... history and became the world’s first Black fighter pilot—all before the age of 30.