World War II ... colors, from shades of gray to olive drab, blue, and camouflage patterns. British planes were painted Dark Earth, Dark Green, and Night — a very dark black-blue color. For U.S ...

Whether pilots and crews drew pinups or painted sharks on their military aircraft ... The most common characteristic of German fighters during WWII wasn't a pinup on the side; it was a spiral ...

For many decades after the end of World War II (WWII), a broad popular narrative—reinforced through thousands of films and books—cast the German military as unthinking tools of Nazi ideology. Only in ...