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The Rise of a Rare Fighter The Dornier Do 335 Pfeil was unlike anything else in the Luftwaffe arsenal. Powered by two in ...
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Germany's Forgotten Heavy Bomber - Dornier Do 19
A long-range strategic bomber of the interwar years, the Dornier Do 19 has now found itself as a mere footnote in history - ...
The bomber was originally part of a large enemy formation which was intercepted by RAF fighter aircraft on August 26, 1940, as they attempted to attack airfields in Essex.
The Dornier 17: salvaging a Nazi bomber. A British museum has begun the process of lifting the only Nazi bomber to survive the World War II Blitz on London out of its shallow grave -- under 60 ...
A Dornier 17 bomber, which Germany used in the first years of World War II, is lowered onto a salvage barge in the English Channel, 70 years after the craft was shot down.
Bomber which sank 71 years ago could be last of its kind; Expert hails 'one of the most significant aeronautical finds of the century' Shot down as the Battle of Britain raged, the German bomber ...
A British museum is about to haul 8 tons of history out of the English Channel -- the only remaining Nazi Dornier bomber from the World War II Blitz on London. The plane, one of a formation of ...
The Dornier- 17 – known as ‘the flying pencil’ on account of its slender shape – was a key work-horse of the Luftwaffe in the early years of World War Two.
** **The Dornier Do 17’s identity plate remained legible, enabling a positive ID of the aircraft. ** Because of its thin shape, the bomber was nicknamed the “flying pencil.” A rare color ...
German WWII bomber: The aircraft, nicknamed the Luftwaffe's 'flying pencil' because of its narrow fuselage, was shot down off the coast of Kent county in southeastern England more than 70 years ...
The wreck of the German World War II Dornier Do-17 plane is transported on a barge to a harbor near Ramsgate, England, on Tuesday, June 11. The bomber was shot down during the Battle of Britain in ...