Great Battles of World War II

World War II raised the stakes as the skies over Germany and the South Pacific raged with deadly air combat. Great air battles thundered as the Axis and Allies waged a menacing race of arms. Faster and more lethal planes from the Nazi Focke-Wulf 190 and Messerschmitt 109G to the Allies P47 Thunderbolt and P51 Mustang and Spitfire MK24 protected the around-the-clock bombers. The air battles of the Pacific had been going the Allies way, but the Japanese Kamikazes were the killers that left the U.S. Navy reeling. The final air battles culminated with the first combat jet fighters and the B29 Superfortress and the Atom Bomb. These battles set records of air combat that still stand today.