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?
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It is the 25th of August, 1942. A Short Sunderland Flying Boat slams into Eagle Rock, a remote hillside in the far north of Scotland, killing fourteen people on board. Miraculously, there is one survivor.
A C-47 transport plane, with a crew of four, is ferrying 24 trainee P-47 fighter pilots from the Bruning Army Air Field in Nebraska to the South Dakotan Pierre Army Air Field for advanced training.
Fritz Todt was Hitler's leading engineer and his Minister of Armaments. He was the man the Führer tasked with the most demanding engineering projects.
In Porsche, Hitler found a talented designer capable of leading Germany to new heights on the racetrack, while also helping rally the support of the masses at home.
The Hawker Hurricane was the first RAF aircraft to fly over 300mph. Over half of every enemy aeroplane destroyed in the Battle of Britain was by a Hurricane, not a Spitfire.
The McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II. Regarded as one of the most important aircraft of the Cold War. It was a major part of the United States Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps, and was also used by many other countries.
In Stealth we examine the methods ships have used to evade detection. With the advent of radar in WW2, ships that wanted to remain undetected had to find ways to hide.
The industrial revolution changed it all when it came to cannons as they evolved from wholly inaccurate and immobile to deadly killing machines.
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.
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.
By early 1945, the end was in sight. After months of hard fighting the Allies were advancing towards the Rhine and to the east the Russians were closing in on Berlin as part of Operation Bagration.
Discover the true story of a German Luftwaffe pilot in World War II who risked his own life to save the crew of an American B-17 bomber.
In 1914, Russian designer Nikolay Lebedenko decided to engineer a solution to the problem of trench warfare with an armoured vehicle with huge wheels that could move over any terrain.
In the early hours of 8th July 1944, a normally quiet part of rural Northamptonshire was a hive of activity as the 17 twinned engine Wellington bombers rumbled down the runway of their Turweston airfield home.
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.
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.
The Republic P-47 Thunderbolt, a Second World War fighter aircraft produced by the American company Republic Aviation from 1941 until 1945. It was considered a successful high-altitude fighter and also served as the foremost US fighter-bomber in the ground-attack role.
The Yakovlev Yak-3, a Second World War Soviet fighter that was regarded for its performance at low altitudes and its agility. It was one of the most successful Soviet aircraft designs of the war.
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