How Fast Did Planes Fly In World War I & II ? Compared to today’s planes, the planes used in WWI were much slower. The top speeds were usually between 100 mph to 150 mph. In 1918, Knoller 70 and Sopwith Dragon reached speeds of about 149 mph (240 km/h). During WW2, Messerschm...
The world's first remote controls were radio-frequency devices that directed German naval vessels to crash into Allied boats during WWI. In WWII, remote controls detonated bombs for the first time. The end of the great wars left scientists with a brilliant technology and nowhere to apply it. ...
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of unexplained causes. The symptoms were unlike anything military physicians had seen before, and they had begun to suspect that the Germans had used an unknown poison gas. There was an urgent request for assistance. Alexander, a medical officer attached to the staff of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhow...
On May 30,1942 1000 British planes bombed and destroyed a whole German city of Cologne. On December 22, 1941, Winston and Franklin meet up and agree to build up American air power in England. “December 7,1941, in a surprise attack Japan bombs Pearl Harbor and declares war on the U.S...
The indicators that Germany were planning “fast warfare” were clearly there to be seen and heard on the airwaves, as well as the build up of weapons such as tanks, planes and infantry transport and support vehicals. The German involvment in fighting in spain (as reported by amongst others...
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To begin with, it rewrote history at the grandest level: Empires fell, and new nations–Austria, Hungary, Yugoslavia and Poland among them– were born in the ashes. Leaders of the still-powerful French and British empires used the conflict to redraw borders in ways that set the stage for ...