The Second World War witnessed a completely new kind of warfare and was the first conflict in which the aircraft played a dominant role. The use of airpower was a key element of the German Blitzkrieg strategy that was unleashed on Poland in September 1939 and shortly after against France and the Low Countries. Britain responded with its own innovative use of air power by winning the Battle of Britain and then by taking the war to Germany with the strategic bombing offensive.

Once America came into the war the scale of aircraft employment rocketed as the skies over Europe and the Pacific witnessed countless air battles as each side strove for supremacy. In the end it was a knockout blow dropped by a single B-29 bomber that was to bring the conflict to a dramatic conclusion.

This special magazine, published to mark the 60th Anniversary of the end of World War Two, aims to tell the story of the air war, from both the Allied and German perspective and looks at some of the key developments made during the six years of World War Two. Technology took immense strides forward with huge advances being made in propulsion, weaponry, radar, countermeasures, blind bombing aids, aerodynamics, aircraft manufacture, materials and a host of other areas. At the end of the war the world of aviation was a much richer place and much of the new technology found its way in to commercial applications.

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