Inside the story of an odd-looking fighter jet that became one of WWII's most effective covert aircraft, due to its short ...
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 — a ...
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The WW2 aircraft that had one fatal flaw

In 1941, Royal Navy pilot Eric “Winkle” Brown barely survived when a shell smashed through his windshield, driving glass into ...
Combat is chaotic. Identifying friend from foe was critical in historical hand-to-hand fighting and continues to be so in the modern age. From the earliest standing militaries in the Middle East's ...
CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Irving Eisen was in the U.S. Navy during World War II and because of his command of German, he was stationed at the Air Document Research Center ...
In the opening hours of World War II, in the early morning skies over Poland, both the Axis and the Allied side had aerial victories and aerial “firsts”, some involving unlikely and obscure aircraft ...