However, poor planning and inexperienced pilots would doom Bodenplatte as the last stand of the Luftwaffe, despite the raid’s successful surprise attack on the Allies’ airfields.

The top hat commemorates a joke played by a Luftwaffe pilot who had recently left the army to fly, and showed up in a top hat instead of a service cap. It became a running joke and found its way ...

A rare watch worn by Luftwaffe pilots in World War II that spent 75 years gathering dust in a desk drawer in Coventry, England, is set to sell for up to $12,000 at an auction... A rare watch worn ...

If you buy from a link, we may earn a commission. Learn more Made for the German Luftwaffe, the Beobachtungs-Uhren (B-Uhren), or “Flieger” watch (“pilot” auf Deutsch), were intended only as flight ...

A former Luftwaffe fighter pilot may have ended the 64-year-old mystery surrounding the death of French writer and aviator, Antoine de Saint-Exupery. The author of The Little Prince disappeared during ...