World War II: The bloody war spreads around the globe, 1940-1941
On April 9, 1940, Germany simultaneously invaded Norway and occupied Denmark, an…
Tag: Aviation
The Allied Invasion of Europe, 1943-1945
Starting with the Invasion of Sicily in July of 1943, and culminating in the Jun…
Flying first class in the 1960s
Life was once simpler. There was only one class for passengers on airline flight…
The forgotten era of the Airships, 1900s-1940s
The history of airships begins, like the history of hot air balloons, in France.…
Attack on Pearl Harbor in pictures, 1941
The Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor began just before 8 a.m. local time S…
MiG-21 crashed into an East German apartment block, 1975
On January 14th, 1975, Major Peter Makowicka, aged 33, was on a training mission…
Battle of Britain in rare pictures, 1940
In the summer and fall of 1940, German and British air forces clashed in the skies…
Loading passengers onto an airship from a mooring mast, 1930s
In the 1920s and 1930s airship mooring masts were built in many countries. A moo…
Aerial warfare of First World War, 1914-1918
Aerial warfare was by no means a First World War invention. Balloons had already b…
First flight with the Wright Brothers, 1902-1909
On December 17, 1903, Orville Wright piloted the first powered airplane 20 feet ab…
The final moments of a Japanese dive bomber, 1945
A Japanese plane caught squarely by antiaircraft fire leaves a trail of smoke and …
Manfred von Richthofen “The Red Baron” petting his dog on an airfield, 1916
Manfred von Richthofen earned widespread fame as a World War I ace fighter pilot…
Mathias Rust, the teenager who flew illegally to Red Square, 1987
It all began in May of 1987. Mathias Rust was fed up with the Cold War tension bet…
The grave of an Allied pilot buried by Germans during the North African Campaign, 1941.
This photograph was taken by George Rodger of No. 1 Section Army Film & Phot…
Boeing B-17F bombing through clouds over Bremen, 1943
The B-17s (Boeing Flying Fortress) are members of the 384th Bombardment Group ("…
The British Concorde fleet in one picture, 1986
First flown in 1969, Concorde entered service in 1976 and continued commercially f…
Austro-Hungarian aircraft gunner with an arranged anti-aircraft gun made out from Mausers C-96, 1917
The Austro-Hungarian aircraft gunner in the picture is seen using a Mauser C96 p…
Pilots of American 8th Bomber Command wearing high altitude clothes, oxygen masks and flight goggles, 1942
During World War II, the now-legendary VIII Bomber Command (often referred to as t…