NASM copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. "The Douglas Devastator was the US Navy's first all-metal combat aircraft, the Navy's first airplane with a fully enclosed cockpit, ...
For every Spitfire, Mustang or Fw 190, there was a plane as terrible as these aeroplanes were fabulous. Considering the pace of technology and the dire global situation, it is hardly surprising that ...