In the summer of 1941, British pilots began reporting encounters with an unfamiliar German fighter that seemed faster, ...

The Fw 190 hit the skies over France in 1941 and triggered what RAF pilots later called the “Fw 190 Scourge.” It was faster ...

Empathy is under attack lately. The all-important ability to see the world through another person’s eyes is now being recast as something corrosive. The argument goes like this: if you’re empathetic, ...

John H. Luckadoo, the last surviving pilot from the storied 100th Bombardment Group, a war-battered unit of B-17 heavy bombers that flew missions deep over German-held territory during World War II, ...

Of the 61 missions that Racine native Robert Goebel flew over Italy and southern Europe during World War II, one of them left a particularly vivid memory in the P-51 Mustang fighter pilot's mind. As ...

Part I. The War to End all Wars : 1914 -1918 -- From Flight to Fight -- Killer Scouts : 1914-1916 -- The Crucible -- The Year of the Fighter : April 1917-April 1918 -- Darkness Crumbles -- Part II. In ...