From the Manchester to the B-32, these Allied heavy bombers showcase air power's rapid evolution of purpose, design, and ...

First conceived by Messerschmitt as a carrier-borne fighter, the Me 155 morphed into a high-speed attack plane and later a ...

Pilots had to fly across the English Channel or the North Sea to fulfill their missions, primarily escorting German bombers and attacking British fighters, ... Göring selected Gotha to mass-produce ...

The shops after the May 1917 bombing. A squadron of 23 Gotha bombers turned on Kent after their planned raid on London failed when they arrived and found heavy cloud cover over the capital.

One of the earliest interwar aircraft of the United States armed forces also played a role in the first film to win an ... while a Martin MB-2 bomber stood in for a German Gotha bomber during the ...

Pilots had to fly across the English Channel or the North Sea to fulfill their missions, primarily escorting German bombers and attacking British fighters, ... Göring selected Gotha to mass-produce ...

The planes that carried out the attack, coincidentally, were known as German Gotha bombers, echoing the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha House of the royal family. 9. and 10.

The problem was the British royal family’s German origin, obvious from its Teutonic surname: Sax-Coburg-Gotha. (At the time, Britain was being assaulted by German Gotha G. IV heavy bomber planes.) ...

This radical change occurred as a result of strong anti-German sentiment. ... the bombers used to carry out these devastating attacks were called Gotha IV bombers - the same name as the royal family.

It was painstaking work but Jacopozzi had all but finished when German Gotha aircraft raided the capital on 16 September, dropping 22,000 kilos of bombs that left six dead and 15 wounded. Next time ...