Adolf Galland understood air combat better than most senior Luftwaffe leaders because he had already seen range decide a ...

Hermann Göring dismissed Roosevelt’s 1940 call for 50,000 aircraft a year as fantasy. In 1940, that reaction seemed plausible ...

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 ...

This story is a selection from the September issue of Air & Space magazine In his new book, Shadow Over the Atlantic: The Luftwaffe and the U-Boats: 1943–45, Robert Forsyth sheds light on the ...

Germany Chancellor Angela Merkel visits Sydney during the G-20 summit in Australia in 2014. European nations recently started to formulate military cooperation angles for their strategies toward the ...

The West German Luftwaffe hated the Lockheed F-104 Starfighters. No, really, they couldn't stand the things. For so many well-documented and well-remembered reasons, the Luftwaffe Starfighters were ...