A steel gray fuselage with a bright red star painted on the side tail was about as ornate as the Soviets got when painting ...

Whether pilots and crews drew pinups or painted sharks on their military aircraft, something was often painted to personalize WW2 planes. In Germany, things regarding nose art were different from ...

When World War II broke out in September 1939, it swiftly became a total war. The practice of using nose art to build camaraderie and esprit de corps roared back into vogue as aerial combat took ...

History buffs know the image well: a score of U.S. fighter planes sporting the now-iconic black and white stripes across their wings soaring over Normandy as the Allies mounted one of the most ...

To determine the least and most mass-produced American fighter planes from WWII, 24/7 Wall St. reviewed a catalog of World War II aircraft, a list compiled by Military Factory, an online database ...

The Germans primarily painted spirals on the nosecones of the Messerschmitt Bf 109 and the Focke-Wulf Fw 190, two of the best German fighter planes of WW2.The spirals worked well to promote safety.