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This powerful plane was mass produced and proved a major thorn for the Allies. Key point: The RAF had the Spitfire and Super Marine. The Axis had the FW-190 and the Zero. On July 28, 1943, Luftwaffe Oberleutnant Erwin Clausen shot down another two B-17 Flying Fortresses to add to the two he had shot down the previous day. There were 15 other Focke-Wulf FW-190 pilots that claimed downing a bomber in defense of the aircraft works at Kassel and Oschersleben. It is believed that this was the first...

American railroad workers in specially formed units labored to keep men and matériel rolling forward after D-Day. Heres What You Need to Know: Combat engineers and railway workers recorded a monumental achievement in the summer of 1944. Historian Christian Wolmar concludes that the two world wars could not have been fought to such devastation without military railways, in his book Engines of War. In wars, from the Crimean to the arrival of the jet engine, railways were a dominant technology. ...

Fire! U.S. Navy Battleships Helped Defeat German Forces in Normandy Nazi resistance to the U.S. attack on the Cotentin Peninsula forced the U.S. to move more naval resources to the well-defended peninsula. Heres What You Need to Know: Operation Neptune was the codename for the Normandy landings. Struggling to withstand dangerous Nazi attacks on U.S. supply boats, three famous U.S. Navy battleships faced heavy resistance as they closed-in on the German-held Cotentin Peninsula as part of the D-Da...