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“Your sole mission is to protect the bombers – not chase enemy aircraft for personal glory”
Colonel Benjamin O. Davis Jr. Group Commander 332nd Fighter Group
With the words of his Group CO ringing in his ears, a pilot of the 332nd Fighter Group returns to protect a crippled American...
The Möhne Dam - 17 May 1943 00.49hrs
The journey had been eventful, flying low they had crossed the Dutch coast and headed inland, skimming along canals and the countryside at tree-top heights and meeting heavy flak at various points along the route.
This dramatic scene depicts Guy Gibson engaging enemy flak positions whilst Lancaster AJ-J , with pilot David...
As the deck of the USS Hornet heaved under a mounting sea, sixteen B-25 Mitchell bombers under the command of Colonel James Doolittle lifted off into the wind.
It was the morning of Monday, 18 April 1942 and, taking a final look at the carrier rapidly disappearing into the distance, the B-25s headed west on what each of the five man crews knew was a one-way ride. With...
Operating from an ex-Luftwaffe base at Culot in Belgium, the Johnnie Johnson Canadian Wing were in combat most days the weather permitted. The Luftwaffe had staged a remarkable recovery after its Normandy defeat and by September 1944 was at operating strength from airfields east of the Rhine. Big formations of Fw190 and Me109 fighters were pitting themselves against the RAF’s ground...
JUNE 6th 1944
A specially commissioned limited edition released in conjunction with the WWII Foundation
It had been a rough ride in for the men of Easy Company. Their C-47s had run into heavy German flak as they crossed the French coast, their commanding officer had been killed and when they'd finally hit the silk they, like much of the 101st Airborne, had...
On the night of 23/24 August 1943, a lone Fw190 of the Luftwaffe’s crack unit JG300 Wilde Sau, defiantly engages a force of RAF Lancasters in the heavily defended, flak-torn skies over Berlin. With the heavy bombers illuminated by bursting flak and the fires of the burning city below, the Luftwaffe pilot engages his target, just one of over 700 RAF long-range bombers thrown into the...
Introduced into service in mid-1942, the average life expectancy of a newly operational Lancaster was just a few months. For the crews themselves, the outlook was bleak and losses for Bomber Command were staggering but their exploits of courage and persistence are legendary.
Crews continuously battled against enemy fighters, heavy flak and severe cold, succeeding against...
Once the largest and most powerful cruiser in the Royal Navy, HMS Belfast fought throughout World War II. As part of the Home Fleet based in Scapa Flow she took part in the Arctic convoys and, on Boxing Day 1943, fought with distinction in the Battle of North Cape, playing a pivotal part in the sinking of the German battleship Scharnhorst. In June 1944 she was off the coast of Normandy...
A Lancaster of No. 61 Squadron, RAF, piloted by Flt. Lt. Bill Reid, under attack from a German Fw190 en route to Dusseldorf on the night of November 3rd, 1943. Already injured in a previous attack, Bill Reid was again wounded but pressed on for another 50 minutes to bomb the target, then fly his badly damaged aircraft on the long journey home. The...
Flying a Bristol F.2b fighter, Lt. Andrew McKeever and his gunner Lt. Powell of 11 Squadron RFC, successfully engage German Albatross D.V fighters over the Western Front near Cambrai, 30 November 1917.
McKeever, a Canadian volunteer, was the squadron’s top Ace, scoring most of his 31 victories on the Bristol Fighter, or the “Biff” as it was affectionately known by...
