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The Ju 88 made its maiden flight on December 21, 1936, and officially entered into operational service with the Vaterland (“Fatherland”) in 1939.
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The Ju 88 made its maiden flight on December 21, 1936, and officially entered into operational service with the Vaterland (“Fatherland”) in 1939.
The Bf 109 was designed by Willy Messerschmitt and Robert Lusser who worked at Bayerische Flugzeugwerke during the early to mid-1930s. It had been...
You see, the M26 was built as a heavy tank for the purpose of hunting Tigers, as in the much-feared Nazi German tank.
The second and last of the Imperial Japanese Navy’s (IJN’s) Ise-class, Hyūga has the distinction of being the last battleship to be sunk in combat.
Fourteen Essex-class aircraft carriers experienced combat in WWII. Yet, none were lost to enemy fire, a surprising statistic given the casualty rate experienced by...
After Desert Storm, the Missouri was decommissioned again, this time for good. The decommissioning marked the end of the battleship era, and today you...
The Bismarck finally deployed as part of Operation Rheinubung, an effort to block Allied shipping to the United Kingdom. It would not last long...
By the time World War II started, the Arizona was already becoming somewhat dated. Built in the mid-1910s and commissioned in 1916, the Arizona...
The Bell P-59 Airacomet made her maiden flight – in the XP-59A prototype iteration – on October 2, 1942, with chief test pilot Robert...
The four Iowa-class battleships that were built to bring victory in the Pacific in World War II truly brought out their big guns for...