The Bf 110 looked like the future—a long-range, cannon-armed “destroyer” built to dominate the skies—until it met modern single-engine fighters. This is the turbulent story of the 110 and its troubled ...

The Messerschmitt Bf 110 was not the best or the worst of the combat aircraft to see service during the Second World War. It had been one of the German Luftwaffe’s great hopes at the start of the war, ...