WW2 fighter pilot's helmet snapped up for £50 in ... His war came to an end on June 24 1944 when he was shot down by a pair of single-engine German Focke-Wulf Fw 190 fighters and was ...

Swift Aire chief pilot John D. Hurst shot down nine German aircraft as a P-38 fighter pilot during World War II. His plane went down over Italy, and he was rescued by two brothers. Telegram ...

BILLINGS -- In a deadly dance over the farm fields of Luxembourg, eight American pilots stumbled upon 25 or more German fighters strafing ground troops during the Battle of the ...

Klaus Gerlach, a fighter pilot in Germany's Luftwaffe in World War II who shot down numerous U.S. and British planes and who was shot down three times himself, died Monday in a Pasadena hospital ...

When German pilot Hanna Reitsch was summoned to meet Adolf Hitler in February 1944, she found a führer who was too tired to lift his arm in salute. Germany’s declining fortunes in World War II ...

Sue Long, a widow of a World War II pilot, received this letter from a 90-year-old German fighter pilot who was shot down by Long's husband south of Bonn, Germany in 1944. (The Dallas Morning News ...