20 Facts About The P-51 Mustang – The Best US Fighter of WWII
North American Aviation (NAA) built the P-51 Mustang in factories based in Inglewood, California, and Dallas, Texas. It took them 102 days to build the…
Lancaster Pilot Survived Freefalling When A Searchlight Helped Him Find His Parachute Which Wasn’t Strapped On
On February 19th, 1944 over the German town of Hannover, pilot Barry Douetil’s Lancaster was attacked by a Focke-Wulf 190 night fighter plane. The attack quickly set the…
WWII Corsair Fighter Screams In At Low Level
What was the role of the Corsair in World War 2? You are about to find out by watching this informative video. The Corsair was…
The General Who Won WWII – You Never Guess How Stalin Rewarded Him
George Zhukov was a Soviet career officer in the Red Army who played a most pivotal role during World War II. He led the drive…
WWII Commercial: Shave Like a Man
In 2013, a shaving brand that was born in 1919 joined the parade of products trying to define what it means to be a real man…
Mutual Assured Destruction – 10 Blood Chilling Things You Need To Know
As a doctrine of national security and military strategy, Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) involves the full-scale usage of weapons of mass destruction by at least two opposing…
Firing the 80 cm Railway Gun ‘Schwerer Gustav’
Schwerer Gustav – This was the name given to a German 80 cm railway gun, a huge piece of artillery designed to be shot from…
Firing The MG-34 and MG-42 Machine Guns
These two machine guns, the MG-34 and MG-42, were the primary arms given to the German infantry and their vehicles throughout World War 2. In…
Old Guy Metal Detecting Finds Buried WW2 Willys Jeep
A short film about every boys dream! Imagine going metal detecting on a beach and suddenly you hear loud beeps coming from your detector. You…
Lockheed AC-130 Gunship: Death From Above
The Lockheed AC-130 gunship is a heavily armed ground attack aircraft currently in service with the United States Air Force. It is a variation of…
Veteran flies Spitfire for first time since WWII
In 2013, at the age of 91 and 69 years after his last time in a Spitfire, Jimmy Taylor went to Goodwood Aerodrome in West Sussex to fly…
Mysteries & Controversies of WWI – 10 of The Biggest!
Looking back at the First World War there are many events and that spark controversy to this day and mysteries to be cleared up. We…