While Hitler's fanciful ideas about how wars should be fought cost him the war and resulted in millions of unnecessary lives lost, millions of marks were spent on pushing the envelope of aeronautical ...

Over the course of World War II, the Nazis invented a lot of different weapons to get an upper hand. Some fundamentally changed combat forever, like the V2 rocket, the first operational ballistic ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. One of the most remarkable of the ...

Nazi Germany pursued numerous ambitious and impractical weapon programs over the course of World War II. One of the few that saw action was the Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet, the only rocket-powered ...

Key Point: The Komet remains the only rocket-powered fighter to have entered operational service. Despite attaining speeds unsurpassed by any other airplane of its time, the Me 163 stands as an object ...

The Me 163 Komet looked like science fiction to Allied bomber crews, a rocket interceptor that could climb almost vertically and flash past at impossible speeds. But its hypergolic fuels, razor-thin ...

Click to open image viewer. One of the most remarkable of the Wunderwaffen (wonder weapons) produced by the Nazi Germany during World War II, the Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet holds the distinction of ...