Blood Red Skies

Hero of the Soviet Union Mariya Ivanovna Dolina enlisted as a volunteer in the 269th Fighter Regiment in 1941 and flew 200 combat special missions in an antiquated U-2 training aircraft carrying orders, mail and medical supplies for the hard-pressed...

Walter Borchers flew Me110s with ZG 76 in the early phases of the war, scoring 10 victories in the aerial battles over France and Britain in 1940. Borchers’ unit was made into a night-fighter squadron incorporating Ju 88C heavy fighters for the...

The introduction of the P-51 Mustang could be said to have changed the aspect of the air war in 1944. The P-51 Mustang would become the icon of air superiority toward the end of World War II, it was however first flown operationally by the RAF as a...