USS Arizona Rests At Pearl Harbor – The Life and Death Of A Noble Battleship In Pictures
The famous Pennsylvania-class battleship, the USS Arizona was built by the United States for the US Navy in the mid-1910s. The battleship class was named in…
Tank Museum – The Best Tank Of WWII: The Panther (Watch)
The Panther tank wasn’t a heavily-armored tank or massively armed like other tanks out there (such as the Tiger), but it was considered superior as…
Avro Lancaster NX611 “Just Jane” Restoration
Avro Lancaster NX611 ‘Just Jane’ has had a chequered history from her ‘birth’ in April 1945. She was built as a MK7 which was conceived…
Rare WWII Aircraft Share The Air: DeHallivand Mosquito And Lockheed P-38 Lightning
This video captures a unique moment in aviation history. Two of the world’s most rare aircraft dance through the sky together at one of the…
Why The Imperial Japanese Air Forces Failed in World War 2 (Watch)
According to Osamu Tagaya, Japan was doomed to lose WWII. A writer for the Smithsonian, Tagaya’s father was an officer in the Imperial Japanese Navy…
Car vs Cobra Helicopter, The Car Wins When Things Go Wrong
Just when you think you know what’s going to happen – it all changes with a plot twist. This challenge pits Kim Jin Pyo (Presenter…
Replica Spitfire Given To The Kingdom Of Lesotho In Recognition Of WW2 Service
One tiny kingdom, formerly a part of the British Empire, is being remembered this year by the Spitfire Heritage Trust. The tiny, land-locked Kingdom of…
Tank Profile: The VT Tanks – German Twin-Gunned, Turretless Prototypes
During the 1970s the post-war German Army, The Bundeswehr, was producing new tank designs, which were intended to live up to their predecessors. The Leopard…
One Of The Fastest Aircraft of WWII And The Luftwaffe’s Worst Nightmare – It Was Made Of Wood
The De Havilland Mosquito remains perhaps the most iconic British light bomber of the Second World War. Made almost entirely from wood, it was one…
These Were The Last Two German U-boats To Surrender In WW2
Throughout the Second World War, U-boats played a critical role in Germany’s warfare strategy. This was especially so during the Battle of the Atlantic, which lasted…
Amazing Pictures – The Massive Floating Dry Docks Of The US Pacific Fleet
The United States Navy, during World War 2, decided to create a temporary forward base utilizing service stations; these stations meant the United States Navy…
22 Amazing Pictures – Aircraft Carriers Fighting in the Pacific During WW2
The war in the Pacific was, for the first time, a war of Aircraft Carriers. They took over the leading role from the battleships which…