It wasn’t the biggest or fastest—but it was terrifyingly effective. This unassuming aircraft earned a fearsome reputation by ...

Germany’s only attempt at building an aircraft carrier, the Graf Zeppelin, was ambitious—but doomed. Conceived as part of ...

In 1943, when Nazi field marshal Hermann Göring demanded that the Luftwaffe’s next bomber aircraft be able to carry a 1,000-kilogram bomb load 1,000 kilometers into enemy territory at a speed ...