Ships don't have to be large to change the course of history. The Smithsonian has a small 1776 wooden gunboat, built to stop a British invasion and two Japanese midget submarines were part of the attack on Pearl Harbour.
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In the north of Crete, six commandos land in a cove. On this island that has been occupied for two years, they have been given a high-risk mission—to infiltrate the Heraklion airfield to destroy the Luftwaffe bombers and fighter planes.
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.
Ships don't have to be large to change the course of history. The Smithsonian has a small 1776 wooden gunboat, built to stop a British invasion and two Japanese midget submarines were part of the attack on Pearl Harbour.
We tell the story of two rescues that ended in tragedy – the sinking of the hospital ship Britannic, and the Lancastria, rescuing soldiers and civilians from France in 1940. In the 19th century, USS Constellation chased down slave ships.
Vera enlists Violette Szabo and Yvonne Baseden. With circuits failing and Noor at risk, treachery allegations harm preparations for the Allied invasion.
Exploring the machines that hide in the shadows, capturing, transmitting and analysing vital combat information.
The F15 Eagle immediately turned the tide of the first Gulf War to prove its greatness. Our immaculately restored MiG Killer was involved in one of the most bizarre combat incidents during that conflict, and has survived to tell the tale.
At the end of 1939, the German Army invades Poland. Examine how Hitler succeeded in pushing through his rearmament and war plans relatively unhindered.
In 1934, Hitler's government is firmly in the saddle. Most Germans support Hitler's anti-Jewish policy and the regime's terror soon escalates.
Al faces up to the richest nation on Earth to discover how the former British colony of America somehow slipped through its fingers.
Bruno Tonioli joins Al to look at key battle tactics during the Roman Invasion back in AD 43.
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.
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.
In 1939, the German raider Atlantis was equipped with fake funnels and her sailors dressed as women pushing prams to fool Allied merchant ships. We also look at how merchant ships were painted with bizarre shapes to fool U-boats.
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.
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 Japanese Super Code reveals the US efforts to crack Japan's unbreakable WWII code following the horror of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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