The German Luftwaffe entered World War II in September 1939 employing as its main day fighter the Messerschmitt Bf109 one of the classic fighter aircraft designs of all time When war broke out it ...

A US aircraft carrier from World ... Even a large carrier like the Yorktown had limited space after loading over 70 fighter planes and a crew of 2,200, making it impractical to squeeze a 16 ...

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.

Three miles below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, an underwater robot descended through an opening in the deck of the sunken aircraft carrier and eased toward the image its operators wanted to see.

Britain stepped up the production of fighter planes, building them faster ... to be fighter-bombers to carry out attacks on German ground forces. WW2: What was the secret to winning the Battle ...

More images from an iconic U.S. Navy aircraft carrier that was sunk in the Pacific ... NOAA said. The other two planes were battle-damaged. They are believed to be part of the USS Enterprise's ...