The Messerschmitt Bf 109, often mistakenly referred to as the Me 109, was one of the most iconic fighter aircraft of World War II, designed by Willy Messerschmitt and produced initially under ...
Even to this day, three quarters of a century after the end of the Second World War, the name Messerschmitt sends shivers down the spines of many. Aircraft wearing this name flew across the world’s ...
From wartime combat reports and Luftwaffe documents to Allied intelligence files and the designer’s own opinion this episode ...
I was flying in my Spitfire M.k 5. It was in 1940. I was escorting bomber planes to bomb the Reichstag. A messerschmit ME-109, and a Focke-Wolf engaged me. The pilot of the ME-109, an ace german pilot ...