Who really were the most dominant fighter pilots of the Second World War? Welcome back to History of War Elites![...] ...

Arthur Van Haren Jr. was one of the top fighter pilots of WWII. He also was my grandfather. I called him “Tata,” a nickname for grandfather in Spanish. He didn’t tell me much about World War II. Tata ...

Morane-Saulnier M.S. 406 was the most numerous French fighter aircraft at the beginning of WW2. Curtiss Hawk was the first ...

From the skies over Europe to the deserts of North Africa, the Luftwaffe claimed tens of thousands of Allied aircraft during ...

Neel Kearby became a hardcore “believer” in the P-47 and devoted himself to developing a doctrine for making the most of the ...

A World War II veteran from Nebraska, believed to be America’s last surviving “ace” pilot because he shot down five enemy planes, has died at age 103. Donald McPherson served as a Navy fighter pilot ...

"World News Tonight" anchor David Muir reported on a remarkable moment as a 100-year-old World War II fighter pilot returned to the skies over McKinleyville, California, taking the controls of the ...

Lt. Col. George Hardy, one of the original Tuskegee Airmen and the last of the group's World War II pilots, died Tuesday night, according to Tuskegee Airmen, Inc. He was 100 years old. “His legacy is ...

KERN COUNTY, Calif. – On Monday, the Department of Defense's POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced that the remains of U.S. Army Air Forces Captain Arthur M. Lingo of Fellows, California -who was killed ...

The F-35 Lightning II, the primary fighter jet of the U.S. military and its allies, can scream through the sky at up to Mach 1.6, or 1,200 miles per hour. It is literally impossible for today's pilots ...