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Soviet Airborne Aircraft Carrier: The Zveno Project Explained
With cutting-edge German aircraft dominating WWII, the Soviets had to innovate fast. Their solution? Attach fighters to a bomber and send them into battle as a flying air force! But was this a ...
BBC9d
The untold story of the battle that helped end WW2 in Europe
Operation Varsity was the largest single airborne operation in history, with more than 16,000 men were dropped into western Germany on the ... to learn to fly fighter planes, were among hundreds ...
The Northern Echo28d
German Second World War aircraft crashed into York farmhouse
Today's Object of the Week is the remains of a Second World War propeller, possibly from one of the last German aircraft to crash on British soil. Ellen Morris reports. The remains of a Junkers ...
Star Tribune8mon
World War II sergeant whose plane was shot down over Germany honored with reburial in California
LOS ANGELES — After 80 years, a World War II sergeant killed in ... in action in early 1944 when his plane was hit by anti-aircraft fire over Gotha, Germany, according to Honoring Our Fallen ...
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The untold story of the battle that helped end WW2 in Europe
Paratroopers were snapped for a newspaper early on the morning of 24 March 1945, drinking tea before getting into planes to be dropped over Germany ... the largest single airborne operation ...