The Heinkel He 111, one of the best-recognized German bombers of World War II, was developed in the early 1930s by Siegfried and Walter Günter at Heinkel Flugzeugwerke as Germany's secret project ...

The He 111 made its maiden flight on February 24, 1935, and entered into the official operational service of “die Vaterland” later that year. The Heinkel wielded a payload of 4,400 lbs. of bombs in ...

This story was submitted to the People’s War site by Bill Ross of the ‘Action Desk — Sheffield’ Team on behalf of Michael Isherwood, and has been added to the site with the author’s permission. The ...

The historic black-and-white photograph shows crowds gathered to see the crumpled Luftwaffe Heinkel He 111 wreckage after it was downed during a tense fight. Two surviving German crew, the plane's ...

After recovering from my accident it was getting towards Christmas. I went back to Debden, and for about a month, six weeks I was on ground duties. One night I was put on in the control tower, in ...

I was in school in Llandudno in 1940/41 prior to going on HM traning ship Conway and then to sea in the MN at 17 years of age in 1943. On Easter Sunday , after a raid on Liverpool a Heinkel 111 ...

Translation of: Die He 111. https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=liball&source=~!silibraries&uri=full=3100001~!144391~!0#focus ...

Nazi Germany was thankfully on the losing end of the ledger during World War II, and as such, the Luftwaffe’s bombers didn’t reach the heights of fame that Allied bombers, such as the American B-17 ...