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A flight of Spitfire MK IXs return to their base at RAF Kenley in July 1942 after a dog-fight with German Fw190s over France. The 611 Squadron pilots make the high speed run for home above the distinctive patchwork fields of southern England and the Channel coast visible in the distance.
Released in 1994 this outstanding portrait of the Spitfire by the worlds leading Aviation...
Adolf Galland and a group of his JV-44 Wing Me262s as they make a high-speed rocket assault on a formation of B-26 Marauders. Diving from a 6000 ft. height advantage to 1500 ft. below and behind the bomber formation, the 262s made a fast approach, climbing to the level of the bombers before loosing off their 24 R4M rockets in one salvo at 600 yards; a long burst of cannon fire followed...
Robert Taylor relives General Adolf Galland's personal account of the combat at noon on 21 June 1941 over northern France.
With his wingman Bruno Hegenauer, Galland powers his Me109 through the fighter escort to attack Blenheim bombers of No. 21 Squadron, raking the lead aircraft with cannon fire. ...
A massive plume of water erupts as the bouncing bomb from Sqn Ldr ‘Dinghy’ Young’s Lancaster scores a direct hit on the Möhne Dam, at 00.40 hours on the night of 16/17 May, 1943. Having already made their attacks, Flt Lt Micky Martin and W/Cdr Guy Gibson bravely circle the flak positions with navigation lights on, drawing enemy...
Led by Wing Commander J.B. Nicolson VC, CO of 27 Squadron (the Flying Elephants) based in north-east India, a pair of Mosquito FBVIs power their way home across jungle-covered hills of northern Burma. They have just completed the squadron’s first combat operation, a successful strike against Japanese ground targets along the vital railway link near Mandalay, Christmas Day 1943. ...
Me109’s from 1./JG51 and Spitfires of 54 Squadron clash head-on over Kent as the unit dives into a formation of Me110s from KPRG210. It is 54 Squadron’s third and final sortie of the day, early evening on Sunday 18 August 1940, at the end of the hardest week of fighting during the Battle of Britain. In the distance a group of Hurricanes tear in to a formation of Do17s from KG76 as they too...
In early July 1943, a few days after landing in Scotland aboard the liner Queen Elizabeth , the 352nd Fighter Group arrived at their new home – the former RAF airfield at Bodney. Originally equipped with P-47 Thunderbolts, in April 1944 they transitioned to P-51 Mustangs, and their distinctive blue painted noses soon became familiar sights in the Norfolk skies. ...
Led by their Commanding Officer Major George Preddy, highest scoring ace in the 8th Air Force, P-51 pilots of the 328th FS, 352nd Fighter Group engage in a bitter struggle with Fw190s in the cold winter air high over Merseburg, eastern Germany. Above, B-17s of the Mighty Eighth turn for home after delivering yet another heavy blow to the enemy’s infrastructure, Tuesday 21 November...
The date is February 16, 1944. Intelligence has reported enemy shipping in the region of New Hanover, a large island west of New Ireland, and 41 strafers from the 345th have joined three squadrons of the 38th Bomb Group to hunt them down. In the foreground the 500th Squadron's B-25, 'Rita's Wagon' having raked the 420-ton Japanese Subchaser No.39 with machinegun fire, has released a...
On 5 March 1944 the B-24 bombers of the 448th Bomb Group took off from England, their mission - to destroy the Luftwaffe facilities at Limoges aerodrome in western France. But waiting for them were the Bf-109s of JG2, ready to rip into the attacking force at the first opportunity. Luckily for the bomber crews they had one of the finest fighter escorts...
