In South Dakota, a security officer is visited by an unearthly presence at a nuclear launch site, knocking him unconscious. When he wakes, he has inexplicably travelled miles from the site. Was it a UFO?
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For the men about to board "Miss Every Morning Fixin", the pressures of the War had been eased by a period of rest and relaxation in Queensland, but they were returning to war operations in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. They were never to return.
A Liberator bomber from RAF Transport Command takes off from Gibraltar for England. On board is General Władysław Sikorski, Prime Minister of Poland's London-based government in exile and Commander-in-Chief of its armed forces.
February, 1943, a B-25 Mitchell Bomber crashes into Sharp Top Mountain. It was the third training crash in the area that night. What really caused this accident?
Operation Overlord is launched. With the Normandy Landings, the Allies pierce the Atlantic Wall. In the East, the Red Army sweeps through Belarus with Operation Bagration, annihilating the Wehrmacht. The end of the Third Reich is near.
At Stalingrad, the German 6th Army is destroyed by the Soviets. It's the first major defeat of the Third Reich, which marks the beginning of its decline. Elsewhere, after the American victory at Guadalcanal, Japan loses the initiative in the Pacific.
July 1943. For six months, the German advance has stalled, but Hitler is convinced that his new generation of Nazi tanks will help put the Reich back on the path to European domination. His target: the Soviet town of Kursk.
1942. Nazi Germany's Blitzkrieg enters Egypt. Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, aka the Desert Fox, has his eyes set on Cairo, but first he must overcome General Bernard Montgomery, the British Eighth Army, and the area's punishing fighting conditions.
Convinced the medieval witch trials were a Judeo-Christian attempt to exterminate the Aryans, Himmler established a special team led by Reinhard Heydrich to build a database of medieval German witchcraft practices.
As the Nazis rose to power, Himmler and the SS were convinced Atlantis could be found, and instigated a series of archeological expeditions seeking to uncover and exploit its secrets.
A Liberator bomber from RAF Transport Command takes off from Gibraltar for England. On board is General Władysław Sikorski, Prime Minister of Poland's London-based government in exile and Commander-in-Chief of its armed forces.
February, 1943, a B-25 Mitchell Bomber crashes into Sharp Top Mountain. It was the third training crash in the area that night. What really caused this accident?
We trace the astonishing story of designers turning away from metal and back to wood to create a twin-engine bomber that could outrun almost any aircraft in the sky, yet deliver a bomb load greater than an Avro Lancaster.
The Heinkel He 111 is one of the most recognised German aircraft of WW2. The broad winged design was a guinea pig for future bombers, with more variants than any other military aircraft of the time.
In this episode we look at vessels built for amphibious combat. We begin by looking at the last reaming Landing Craft Tank (LCT) to serve on D-Day – LCT 7074. These huge landing craft were essential in delivering tanks, trucks, soldiers and supplies.
In this episode of the series, we look at the dark and disturbing tale of the skeleton of an unknown woman found in a hollowed-out tree in a Birmingham woodland.
The fact that Hitler's niece, Geli Raubal, was found dead in his apartment in 1931 has remained a little-known footnote in the Fuhrers long and bloody legacy. The investigation concluded that she had committed suicide using her uncle's revolver.
When Edward VIII, the former wayward King of Great Britain was sent by the British establishment to see out the war in as Governor of the Bahamas, it was hoped that he would refrain from causing any further embarrassment to the Royal family.
As the Nazis waged a war of destruction across Europe, women travelling on Berlin's S-Bahn train network were being stalked in the carriages at night.
In 1943, the mysterious murder of one of the wealthiest men in the British empire, Sir Harry Oakes, sparked a chain of events that have led many to believe that the Duke of Windsor had not learned from his mistakes.
As the Nazis waged a war of destruction across Europe, women travelling on Berlin's S-Bahn train network were being stalked in the carriages at night. During the wartime blackouts, a serial killer used the darkness to carry out a reign of terror.
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