When the war begun, with the invasion on Poland on September 1939, the Allies air forces were unable to defeat the great Luftwaffe. In the Pacific, the Japanese air force was also stronger than the enemy. In this conditions, the Reich conquest the continental Europe and North Africa, and Japan was the owner of Pacific.
To turn up this situation, the American, Bristish, Australian and Russian engineers begun to create and develop new airplanes and technologies, improving their fight capacity. At the same time, the Reich warmachine was taken their first hit, with the defeats at El Alamein (Africa), in the Russian front and in the South Pacific.
By the end of the war, with the D-day invasion, the advance of the Red Army in the East front and the defeat of Italy, Germany began to reveal their superweapons, like jet and rocket propelled planes and pilotless bombs (V-1 and V-2). Despite having this superweapons, Germany was running out of fuel, as the allied Oil Raid was destroying their oil refineries with daily bombing raids. So too many planes were unable to fly, and the Allied forces conquest the skies gradually. In the Pacific, the Japanese were suffering successive losses, and the USA was making the Pacific free again.
On May 1945, Germany was surrendered. Japan fell down in August, after the explosion of two nuclear bombs, in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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