Nazi Germany was thankfully on the losing end of the ledger during World War II, and as such, the Luftwaffe’s bombers didn’t reach the heights of fame that Allied bombers, such as the American B-17 ...

But the German re-armament began again in the 1930s, attracting the attention of aircraft designer Ernst Heinkel. Heinkel ...

During the war, he had a mid-air crash after he shot down a Heinkel bomber near the German border and the tail of his Hurricane was clipped by a French plane and he crash-landed. He continued to ...

However, also in common with its Heinkel counterpart, the Junkers bomber crews paid a terrible price in the skies over Britain; between July and October 1940, 303 of these planes were sent ...