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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A German Second World War pilot has made his maiden voyage in a Spitfire. Hugo Broch, 95, believes he was the first German pilot to ever fly in a Spitfire when he took off from the runway at Biggin ...

The scene is still one of the most evocative in this island's history: dashing young pilots in their fighter planes, defying the odds as they speed across blue summer skies towards the intruder above ...

Until a year ago, Oliver Freuen was playing soccer in Germany’s regional fourth league. He was on a path toward professional football in the Bundesliga, but it wasn’t meant to be. “My dream was over,” ...