When you look at the overall history of warfare, air battles are still relatively new. Considering the airplane is only around 120 years old, compared to civilizations fighting wars for centuries ...

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 ... As Allied planes descended, her crew unleashed ...

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 ...

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.

Michael Wosje, commander, Carrier Strike Group ONE, completes his 1000th trap on the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft ... War II chasing German U-Boats and Nazi torpedo planes.

Today, we’re looking at the most decorated battleships of WW2. World War II was one of ... America’s most decorated ship in WWII. An aircraft carrier, the Enterprise, shot down 911 enemy ...

His Majesty King George VI came aboard the HMS Victorious and came along on exercise with us to see the workings of an aircraft carrier with ... Hoping to catch the German battle ships coming ...

Leaders of the German ... their own planes. The P-59 was also found unsuitable for carrier operations by the U.S. Navy. While Bell found only limited success with the XP-59, rival aircraft ...