The Americans liked to paint women on their planes, and many aircraft like bombers featured ... two of the best German fighter planes of WW2. The spirals worked well to promote safety.

The paints were initially produced by several German companies, and later in German-occupied territory. Aircraft manufacturers ... so many of these legendary WW2 planes were screaming through ...

In the final years of WWII, Nazi engineers proposed one of their boldest concepts yet—a massive flying aircraft carrier ...

Historians are baffled as to why the 1940-41 black Ford Super Deluxe Woody was aboard the aircraft carrier - now 16,650 ... the hangars would have been where planes were stored and worked on.

Tragically, Roderic died three years later on May 22, 1941, also aged 26, during a daring low-level attack on a German-held airfield in Iraq ... from RAF Thornaby in North Yorkshire. His Blenheim ...

“I ran into the living room and I said ‘there’s a war, there’s a war on’. I was quite excited,” said Ruth, now 98. “I had no idea of the horror in my mother’s face, because she had been a nurse in the ...

D-Day and the liberation of Europe was a momentous task consuming the energies of millions. The tens of thousands of combat ...

It was naval gunfire support from warships offshore on to German defenders that enabled ... resembles living on a vast combination of an aircraft carrier, a floating dock jammed with men, and ...

The aircraft carrier USS Harry S ... to cost roughly $60 million apiece, meaning the carrier has racked up at least $180 million in lost planes and damage. It adds to the mounting costs the ...