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This list covers aircraft of the German Luftwaffe during the Second World War from 1939 to 1945. Numerical designations are largely within the RLM designation system. The Luftwaffe officially existed from 1933–1945 but training had started in the 1920s, before the Nazi seizure of power, and many aircraft made in the inter-war years were used ...
Messerschmitt Bf 109. The Messerschmitt Bf 109 is a German World War II fighter aircraft that was, along with the Focke-Wulf Fw 190, the backbone of the Luftwaffe 's fighter force. [3] The Bf 109 first saw operational service in 1937 during the Spanish Civil War. It was still in service at the end of World War II in 1945. [3]
1947 (Turkey) 1949 (France) Developed into. Focke-Wulf Ta 152. The Focke-Wulf Fw 190, nicknamed Würger[ b ] (Shrike) is a German single-seat, single-engine fighter aircraft designed by Kurt Tank at Focke-Wulf in the late 1930s and widely used during World War II. Along with its well-known counterpart, the Messerschmitt Bf 109, the Fw 190 ...
The Messerschmitt Me 262, nicknamed Schwalbe(German: "Swallow") in fighter versions, or Sturmvogel(German: "Storm Bird") in fighter-bomber versions, is a fighter aircraftand fighter-bomberthat was designed and produced by the German aircraft manufacturer Messerschmitt. It was the world's first operational jet-poweredfighter aircraft and "the ...
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A captured Messerschmitt Me 262, the most numerous jet fighter of World War II. World War IIwas the first war in which jet aircraftparticipated in combat with examples being used on both sides of the conflict during the latter stages of the war. The first successful jet aircraft, the Heinkel He 178, flew only five days before the 1 September ...
The list of aircraft of World War II includes all the aircraft used by those countries which were at war during World War from the period between their joining the conflict and the conflict ending for them. Aircraft developed but not used operationally in the war are in the prototypes section at the end. Prototypes for aircraft that entered ...
Main types: Hurricane, Spitfire and Bf 109. The most famous fighter aircraft used in the Battle of Britain were the British Hawker Hurricane and Supermarine Spitfire Mk I, and the German Messerschmitt Bf 109 E variant (Emil) single-engined fighters. Although the Spitfire had attracted more attention from the public, [3] the Hurricanes were more ...