The conflict in the Pacific provided history with some of the worst reminders of the true meaning of war. Even today the images captured on islands such as Iwo Jima and Okinawa have the power to shock a world by the horrors of more recent events.
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While the single shot rifle remained a mainstay until WWI, machine guns had been in development since the final days of the American Civil War.
Small arms production hit a boom in the early 1800s with the emergence of the modern cartridge an invention that led to the lethal package.
Experts look at three types of weapon employed to attack civilian populations, from the medieval trebuchet to modern bio-weapons and nuclear bombs.
Wars become even bloodier as new technologies continue to evolve. An international team of experts tests the deadliest weapons upgrades in the history of warfare.
The definitive combat helicopter saw first blood in South East Asia and has been transport, gunship, smoke ship, command centre, MediVac and dozens of other roles. We hear and see it's hair raising missions and watch it earn its fame.
The aircraft capable of delivering the payload of a B17, in a single post war air frame. The many variants of this single piston engined fighter bomber helped dominate the air to ground attack role in Vietnam, earning quite a reputation.
The story of the trench warfare from the First World War is well known. What is less well known is that the efficiency of the railway networks of both sides helped cause that stalemate.
Up until the end of 1941, the USA stayed resolutely neutral. Not surprisingly, there was little public appetite for joining a war that was taking place many miles away and seemed to have little to do with the world's greatest superpower.
With the invasion of Britain officially postponed, The Germans looked for another way to knock Britain out of the war. As an island race, Britons depended on its merchant navy to provide vital war materials, not to mention food and fuel.
A secret bunker below the Kremlin, a sanctuary in the coastal forests of Sochi and a hidden second Metro in Russia's capital are just some of the bunkers developed for Stalin, seen for the first time ever using recently declassified documentation.
Paranoid and isolated, Albanian dictator Enver Hoxha establishes his bunkerization project, which would result in the construction of more than 170,000 bunkers, including the top secret HQ in Tirana, and a bunker city known as The Capital of War.
We explore two submarines – former Cold War enemies now moored in a Kent river, and discover the story of Vasili Arkhipov, a Soviet submariner who refused to authorise a nuclear launch.
John F Kennedy first made news in 1943 when, as a skipper of a torpedo boat in the Pacific, he and his crew were shipwrecked. We tell the story of their rescue.
The Avro Lancaster is the legendary British heavy bomber that carved its place in history with Bomber Command during World War 2. That conflict saw over seven thousand of these iconic aircraft come off the production line.
The debate about humanity's true origins becomes a nefarious fixation as SS leader Heinrich Himmler turns his attention to proving the Paleolithic past of Germany's Aryan race.
The greatest hideout in fascist Italy's history: The Monte Soratte Bunker. Built directly into a mountainside, with security features even a Bond villain could only dream of. But could Mussolini's bunker withstand an all-out Allied assault?
Hitler's last secret is revealed: a sprawling underground headquarters at Książ Castle, complete with a spectacular network of underground complexes in the Owl Mountains. Was this intended to be the birthplace of Hitler's ultimate superweapon?
Cruelly called 'the packing case the B17 came in,' the Liberator more than proved its worth over Europe and the Pacific, patterning the B17 to deliver a blow to the axis powers in WWII however it wasn't simply a bomb delivery system.
Often called 'the forgotten bomber', the mighty North American twin delivered the first blow in the fight back against Japan, in one of the most daring and audacious raids of all time.
In the 19th century, weapons became more sophisticated and more deadly, and the results were higher casualties with devastating wounds.
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