Category: WW2
P38 Lightning | Lockheed’s single seated fighter aircraft | A beauty of the sky –
The Lockheed P-38 Lightning is an American single-seated, twin piston-engined fighter aircraft that was used during World War II. Developed for the UnRead More…
Hedgehog Anti-Submarine Hydrostatic Shockwave Projector
A secret research endeavor under the direction of the British Admiralty led to the development of a unique weapon that would change the course of mariRead More…
Fw 189 – The Recon Plane That Left Its Mark –
The Fw 189 became one of the most famous aircraft on the Eastern Front during the Second World War. It was both hated and loved, leaving none indifferRead More…
Type XXI Elektroboot – The Electric U-Boat
Conventional U-boat submarines had been the backbone of the Kriegsmarine during the early stages of World War 2. Still, as allies developed more promiRead More…
Project Habakkuk – The Manmade Iceberg Aircraft Carrier
eneath the 100-foot-deep waters of Lake Patricia in Canada lies a revolutionary secret that was once poised to change the tides of World War 2.As esseRead More…
WW2 Goliath Tracked Mine
After spotting a rather strange vehicle being sunk by French soldiers in the Seine river, Nazi soldiers took it upon themselves to retrieve the machinRead More…
The Little-Known German S-Boot
What Germany’s Navy lacked in numbers they made up in groundbreaking engineering. Their fearsome submersible U-boats wreaked havoc across the AtlantRead More…
USS PC-815 – The Fake Submarine Hunter
In May of 1942, a young L. Ron Hubbard commanded the USS PC-815 submarine chaser patrolling the Northern Oregon waters when suddenly the sonar gear deRead More…
The E-Series Of Tanks – Hitler’s Dream Tanks
German Second World War tanks are genuinely considered by some to have been much more superior to anything ever produced by the Allies. To some extentRead More…
Mosquito Bombern- Operation Jericho
On February 18, 1944, Royal Air Force pilots were unexpectedly woken up early in the morning and rushed to a briefing room. Minutes later, the menRead More…
Grumman F8F Bearcat
The Grumman F8F Bearcat was an American single-engine carrier-based fighter aircraft that arrived too late to participate in World War II.Still, it waRead More…
The World’s largest Submarine before WW2 – The French Submarine Surcouf
After being taken and subsequently returned by the British in 1940 and completing several missions in the Atlantic, the French Surcouf submarine and iRead More…
M18 Hellcat – The Tank Hunter of World War 2
Possessing all the characteristics of a tank, however, the M18 Hellcat was still classified as a tank destroyer. The Hellcat M18 weighed about 18.7 toRead More…
Northrop A-17 – An Important Stepping Stone For More Advanced Aircraft in WW2
First introduced in 1935, the Northrop A-17’s fate was quickly brought to an end in 1938 when the Army Air Corps determined that all future attack airRead More…
Godzilla Plane – The Largest Sea Plane Ever Proposed – Japanese KX-3
When our story begins, Japan was no longer in the ascendency in the Pacific war. America had entered the war after the Japanese attack on Pearl HarborRead More…
WW2 Dictators’ Planes
WW2 dictators all had luxurious personal planes. In this video we examine the planes used by Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini and Chiang Kai-shek, plus severRead More…
The Only Submarine Ever Captured by an Airplane
To counter the Royal Navy’s oceanic supremacy during the first months of World War 2, Adolf Hitler ordered his Kriegsmarine to deploy its feared U-bRead More…
