Displacing 33,550 tons—a little less than what the 1935 Anglo-German Naval Agreement allowed—the great ship boasted a top speed of 35 knots per hour, faster than many modern aircraft carriers.

Germany designed the flawed Heinkel He-177 Greif heavy bomber to reach enemy targets far from Germany and outrun enemy ...

tail-less aircraft known as a flying wing. The idea was not unprecedented; the German aerospace engineer Hugo Junkers had patented a flying-wing design in 1910. The concept is that an airplane’s ...

But after Hitler saw the way other navies, notably the British Royal Navy, were using their aircraft carriers with such devastating lethality against German forces at sea, in 1942, Hitler ...