Two Nazi soldiers stand guard at the grave of Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen, the most successful German fighter pilot during WWI with 80 downed planes, in Berlin, Germany, April 5, 1938.

Frank Luke, namesake for the famous Luke Air Force Base in Arizona, in May 1919 posthumously was awarded the Medal of Honor for his 40 days spent as a fighter pilot on the Western Front of World ...

The strategies of Eddie Rickenbacker’s era live on today with pilots flying F-22 Raptors in the 94th Fighter Squadron. On October 28, 1916, German pilot Oswald Boelcke, in flight with five ...

Peeling out of the sun came shining silver German fighter planes ... that Germany is desperately short of fighter planes. From a vantage point in the pilot's cabin Lt. Casey and his co-pilot ...