6. Battle of Kursk ©"A German supply convoy of the Ninth Army attacked by Soviet aircraft during the Battle of Kursk, July 11, 1943." by WWII in View is licensed under PDM 1.0. - Original / License ...

In the final years of WWII, Nazi engineers proposed one of their boldest concepts yet—a massive flying aircraft carrier capable of launching its own fighter planes. Combining speculative design ...

In July 1945, as Allied bombers darkened Japan’s skies in the war’s final days, the Katsuragi, a formidable Unryū-class aircraft carrier, stood poised in the Seto Inland Sea. Though ...

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.

World War II aircraft were painted in a wide assortment of colors, from shades of gray to olive drab, blue, and camouflage patterns. British planes were painted Dark Earth, Dark Green, and Night ...

AN ICONIC wooden car has been discovered in the wreckage of the famed US warship, downed by a Japanese submarine during WWII. Historians are baffled as to why the 1940-41 black Ford Super Deluxe Wo… ...

This Navy admiral just bagged his 1,000th landing on an aircraft carrier Rear Adm. Michael Wosje joined the Navy's 'Grand Club' of about 400 pilots with 1,000 landings on an aircraft carrier.

USS Fletcher sank and destroyed enemy submarines, warships, and aircraft. Decommissioned in 1947, the destroyer was recommissioned again in 1949 as an anti-submarine warfare platform.

My War Service During my Time on the Fleet Aircraft Carrier “Victorious” Archive List > Royal Navy Archive List > World > United States of America Archive List > World > South America ...

Leaders of the German Luftwaffe, who viewed a later test flight, were not impressed, despite the technical breakthrough the He 178 represented. The Failure of the World's First Jet Aircraft ...