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4 ημέρες πριν · British carriers were designed with armored decks, a measure that provided significantly greater protection against bombs and kamikazes. The additional weight of the armor, however, reduced their typical carrying capability to 35 to 55 aircraft.
19 Ιουλ 2024 · In addition to three runways, the station was equipped with normally associated facilities such as two T2 hangars and a bomb dump. Widely known locally as Smeatharpe, the first USAAF aircraft to arrive on 26 April 1944 were Douglas C-47 transports of the 439th Troop Carrier Group.
4 ημέρες πριν · The aircraft proved itself to be the most effective RAF tactical strike aircraft, on interdiction raids against communications and transport targets deep in North Western Europe prior to the invasion and in direct support of the Allied ground forces after D-Day.
1 ημέρα πριν · One of the largest aircraft of World War II, the B-29 was designed with state-of-the-art technology, which included a pressurized cabin, dual-wheeled tricycle landing gear, and an analog computer-controlled fire-control system that allowed one gunner and a fire-control officer to direct four remote machine gun turrets.
5 Ιουλ 2024 · Mosquito, British twin-engine two-seat mid-wing bomber aircraft that was adapted to become the prime night fighter of the Allies during World War II. As a night fighter, the Mosquito downed more than 600 Luftwaffe planes over Germany and as many V-1 missiles over England and the English Channel.
5 ημέρες πριν · C-47, U.S. military transport aircraft that served in all theatres during World War II and continued in service long afterward. It was used to haul cargo, transport troops, drop paratroops, tow gliders, and as a flying ambulance.
2 ημέρες πριν · At the outbreak of World War II, the primary concerns of the British Navy were to defend Great Britain from invasion and to retain command of the ocean trading routes, both in order to protect the passage of essential supplies of food and raw materials for Britain and to deny the trading routes to the Axis powers, thus drawing tight once again t...
