Dogfights

During World War II, Japanese kamikaze pilots fly suicide missions against American Navy ships, and German pilots use their aircrafts as dangerous battering rams against American bombers.

In the face of the destruction of their homeland during the latter stages of WWII, German pilots are motivated to destroy Allied bombers by any means possible.

Fighter jets engage in dogfights for the first time in the skies over North Korea with the US F-86 Sabre going up against communist MiG-15; Captain James Jaraba goes into combat despite a malfunctioning aircraft on May 20, 1950.

America's P-47 Thunderbolt has a reputation as the most rugged fighter of WWII. Robert S Johnson is jumped by 16 German planes, and George Sutcliffe tries to elude 40-plus enemy fighters.

The missile age dawns in the fight for Vietnam, changing the rules of dogfights and making agility the key to success in the air.

The Israeli Air Force master the use of the Mirage III over decades of intense air combat with neighbours like the Egyptian MiG-21.