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Introduced in 1941, the Short Stirling was the Royal Air Forces first four-engine heavy bomber of the Second World War. However, early on, the Stir...

Royal Air Force Fighter Command's brief was to provide an effective aerial barrier to any attempt at domination of British skies. The aircraft and ...

Masquerading as a civilian airliner during the mid-1930s, the Heinkel He 111 medium-range bomber saw its first combat in 1936 with Germanys Condor ...

The 458th Bomb Group (H) entered combat with the 8th Air Force early in 1944. Based at Horsham St. Faith in England, the combat crews participated ...

This first of two volumes on the Supermarine Spitfire covers the design, testing, development, and early WWII combat use of the famed British fight...

This second of two volumes on de Havilland's Wooden Wonder covers the World War II bomber and photoreconnaissance variants of the deadly Mosquito. ...

The concept of strategic assault of a Nations industrial and military base by air was heralded by Britain as far back as the immediate period befor...

This first of two volumes on de Havillands Wooden Wonder covers the night-fighter and fighter-bomber variants of the deadly Mosquito. The developme...

The Avro Lancaster was the Royal Air Force's main four-engine bomber in World War II. Its superb design, overall performance, and load-carrying cap...

This is a study of one of the 8th USAAFs sub-units. The 1st Combat Bomb Wing (1CBW), created on 13 September 1943, was preceded first by the 1st Bo...

The Hawker Hurricane has rightly earned its place in military aviation annals. Although only preceding the Spitfire by four months in its prototypi...

The B-24 Liberatorequipped organization that evolved from its original 2nd Bomb Wing status to a Divisional level commenced operations out of East ...

The concept of a twin-engine fighter that could accompany bomber formations and effectively drive off defending fighters was the rationale behind t...

The Interim LSM(R) or Landing Ship, Medium (Rocket) was a revolutionary development in rocket warfare in World War II and the U.S. Navy's first ...