The Germans primarily painted spirals on the nosecones of the Messerschmitt Bf 109 and the Focke-Wulf Fw 190, two of the best German fighter planes of WW2. The spirals worked well to promote safety.

This Gun Fired WW1 and WW2's First Shots for Australia | Tony Robinson's Time Travels Posted: April 25, 2025 | Last updated: May 2, 2025 At Point Nepean, a 6 inch gun fired the Commonwealth's ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - The German government on Wednesday warned against Russian efforts to "instrumentalise" events marking the 80th anniversary of World War Two after the Russian ambassador to Berlin ...

A 110-year-old lemon used by a German WW1 spy to send secret messages from Britain with invisible ink is going on display in MI5’s first ever public exhibition. The blackened and flattened fruit ...

As the German right ascends, the nation is still grappling with its fascist past — and how to handle its remains. A skull found at a grave containing around 1,000 bodies near Hungary’s border ...

Could steel from German WW1 warships be orbiting our solar system aboard space satellites like Voyager 1? Discover the fascinating story of ‘low-background steel’ — special steel salvaged ...

Explorers say they've found the wreckage of a British warship that was sunk by a German U-boat during World War I. Some 524 people, including the ship's captain, perished when the HMS Hawke went ...

“Friedenstein Castle’s collections suffered more than most German cultural institutions from embezzlement, war losses, and removals to the Soviet Union,” said Martin Hoernes, the general ...

Angiolin was caught in his tavern in San Michele by Germans and fascists and accused of having delivered a load of bayonets ... the German one. Posted on: 14 November 2004 by Peter - WW2 Site ...

Tanks used in the Second World War evolved significantly compared to the Great War, going from slow, cumbersome armored pieces of rolling artillery whose effectiveness in many situations was ...

To recall: World War I ended with the capitulation of the Imperial German Army, even though their allied opponents were nowhere close to conquering the German homeland (but the German army’s ...

A World War One German U-boat has been identified by divers off the coast of Shetland. The SM UC-55 submarine was sunk about eight miles south-east of Lerwick by the Royal Navy in 1917.