Sales of German tanks and ships have also outstripped those of the Allies. Analysis by the model maker Airfix has revealed that this year, German kits have made up around 55 per cent of the sales of ...

THE remarkable story of how a Spitfire Ace was given a German Iron Cross by a vanquished pilot before returning it to his old foe after the war has emerged. Group Captain Norman Ryder - one of The Few ...

On an October afternoon in 1939, German bombers launched a surprise raid over Scotland, met by the iconic Spitfire for the first time in combat. This is the true story of the frantic 10-minute window ...

A long-lost Second World War spitfire flown by a pilot who was part of the “Great Escape” has been found almost entirely intact on a Norwegian mountain – 76 years after it was shot down by Nazis. Of ...

As German Ju-88 bombers, crewed by hardened Condor Legion veterans, swept into Scottish skies, they were hunted by a chaotic swarm of Spitfires flown by weekend enthusiast pilots. This is the ...

Lieutenant Hugo Broch, 95, known as one of the 'aces of the Luftwaffe', flew the Messerschmitt 109. He braved 324 missions on the Eastern Front and later won the German Cross in Gold and the Iron ...