The unlucky state-of-the-art bombers of the early 1930s met disaster when put into service against the pursuit aircraft of the late 1930s. The B-29s that ruled the skies over Japan in 1945 were ...

German Gotha bombers would eventually terrorize London again, catalyzing the Smuts Report and the creation of the world’s first air force.

Once in the German community of Gotha in southwest Orange County, the songs of Franz Schubert and Robert Schumann floated in the night air, sung by settlers who also recited Homer and Ovid as they … ...

The ‘plane was completely intact and we learned later that it was a Gotha 145, ... On the same day that Leonard Buckle took off to deliver mail so did approximately 100 German aircraft, ...

On May 25, 1917, 21 Gotha G.IV bombers attacked London and other targets in southeast England, killing scores and highlighting the island nation’s vulnerability to the fast new raiders.

Gotha, Florida, was started as a German community. “At that time he was working for the Milwaukee Public Museum, and he did not officially move down to Gotha until 1902,” said Klare.

The German Army, never as enthusiastic about airships as the Navy, decided to end it there and switched their focus to attacking London with the new Gotha bombers.

IN June 1917 a squadron of German Gotha IV biplane bombers set off for London to carry out the first daylight raid on the capital of the First World War.

Cultural diversity is nothing new in Central Florida, where some of our earliest pioneers trailed a proud German heritage. That’s right — we tend to think of German Americans in connection ...