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5 Fast Facts – Bringing the USA Into The War – Japan Attacks America At Pearl Harbor (Watch)

Five Things about the attack on Pearl Harbor that may be new to you, we start with two and the rest follows in the video.…

The End Of A Proud Warship: Gut Wrenching Footage Of The HMS Barham Exploding In 1941 (Watch)

Constructed for the Royal Navy around 1910, the Queen Elizabeth battleship HMS Barham was often used as the flagship in battle. Having participated in World…

Firing The Hugely Powerful German MG42 Machine Gun (Watch)

MG42 Machine Gun

This video looks at the MG-42, a World War II German machine gun. It is being fired as part of a demonstration at Dellwood Park, Lockwood,…

Amazing Video Blends Drone Footage Of WW2 Crossroads Battlefield With Scenes From ‘Band Of Brothers’ (Watch)

Watch a Band of Brothers episode and have a close look at the site of one of the most famous battles from an entirely new…

Know Your Ally – This Is How American Soldiers Were Prepared For Life In Britain (Watch)

In order to overcome cultural differences, the United States War Department and Signal Corps produced a series of documentaries that compared US citizens and their…

Boeing B-29 “Fifi” Cockpit Checklist Run-through, Engine Start and Take-off (Watch)

In this video, we see a truly magnificent plane – the Boeing B-29 Superfortress, affectionately known as ‘FiFi.’ This Superfortress was built by the aircraft…

Amazing Pilot’s-Eye Video – Flying The Rare WW2 Mosquito

It is not often that you see a Mosquito flying – this is because there are only two airworthy examples left in the world, one…

Breathtaking Drone Footage Flying Over The First World War Battlefields Of Verdun

In this Drone footage by Gauthier Lefebvre, we will take a look at the battle for Verdun as we’ve never seen it before. We fly over…

Tank Chats: The British Mark V Tank (Watch)

The Allies were the first to build tanks, and so the Germans had to come up with methods to stop them. At first, they widened…

Pointe Du Hoc From Above – Where The American Rangers Captured The High Ground on D-Day (Watch)

Pointe du Hoc is on the coast of Normandy (Northern France) and overlooks the English Channel. The German army had control of this crucial area…

A Failed Painter, A Vegetarian, And Terrified of Blades – 10 Weird Facts About Adolf Hitler (Watch)

In 1907 a young man walked into the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, Austria. Under his arm, he carried a portfolio of some of…

Spine Chilling Drone Footage Of Oradour-Sur-Glane, Wiped Out By The SS

On June 10th, 1944, SS Major Adolf Diekmann and his 4th SS Regiment marched to the village of Oradour-Sur-Glane, surrounded it, and ordered every resident…