Germany's U-505 submarine was the 1st warship captured by the US Navy in over a century and top secret during World War II.
4-engines were mainly the purview of strategic bombers during WWII. The Allied examples were ... when BV 222 V4 shot down US Navy PB4Y-1 Liberator, ofttimes mistakenly reported as an RAF Avro ...
he was so impressed he reportedly took an exclusive license on the engine's patent. Powel promptly brokered a deal with the Navy, and a year after WWII ended was using the Cobra to power his ...
By mid-1942, half a year after America entered the war, however, the U.S. Navy needed its own land ... One of the best known airplanes of World War II, the B-25 bomber was also one of the most ...