Navy pilot John Leppla was credited with shooting down five Japanese aircraft in aerial combat before he was shot down and ...

In the opening hours of World War II, in the early morning skies over Poland, both the Axis and the Allied side had aerial ...

However, Udet's affinity for dive bombing had its critics within the Luftwaffe, such as Walter Wever, who advocated for long-range heavy bombers, and felt that the strains of dive bombing would be ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Perhaps no weapon was as closely associated with the Nazi German in early in World War II as the Stuka dive bomber, infamous for howling,... Here’s What You ...

Also known as the Stuka, the plane consistently proved its worth as the most effective dive bomber in the German ... for destroying 17% of the Luftwaffe fighter fleet. The Japanese Mitsubishi ...

This aircraft would go on to play a vital role in the German Luftwaffe’s campaigns across Europe, North Africa, the Mediterranean, and the North Sea as a dive bomber, torpedo bomber, medium ...

Meanwhile, hard on O’Hare’s heels in Lexington lore was a Douglas SBD-3 Dauntless team whose activities seemed just as much devoted to fighters as to dive bombers. John Arthur Leppla was born ...