Still, not every WWII fighter plane can be as successful as Japan's Mitsubishi A6M "Zero," the North American P-51 Mustang, or the German Messerschmitt Bf 109. The unfortunate reality of airplane ...

But as Horst Petzschler talked about what it was like to be a pilot in Germany’s Luftwaffe during World War II, the gray-haired ... attacking the formation in a Messerschmitt 109.

At the outbreak of World War II 20 years later ... faster and more maneuverable than its primary opponent, the legendary Messerschmitt BF-109. Spitfires accounted for 529 aerial kills during ...