In this rare firsthand account, a German veteran who served on an 88mm flak gun describes what it was really like behind one of World War II’s most feared weapons. But this is not just a story about ...

When people think of the air war over Western Europe in WWII, they usually picture savage dogfights between Allied fighters ...

The Martin B-26 Marauder Flak-Bait survived two years of the most intense aerial combat of World War II, taking every punch German gunners and fighter pilots threw at it. Though bullets and shell ...

Neighbour Kristin Schroeder told the local newspaper that the man had even fired up the tank during the particularly bad winter of 1978-79 and helped plow others' snow You can save this article by ...

Just because World War II ended some 67 years ago, doesn’t mean you shouldn’t keep one eye on the sky for air raids with a pair of authentic German flak binoculars. You can just never be too sure.

Over Germany, Italy, Japan, “Flak” (anti-aircraft gun) was, along with enemy fighters, the main threat to Allied bombers. An Army Air Force training film explains FlaK (from the German word for ...