World War 2 Aviation

Food Bombers – Allied Operations Behind German Lines, Netherlands 1945

Behind-the-lines Missions By 1945, the German-occupied Western Netherlands was starving. Concluding a secret truce with the Nazi leader of the[…]

The Meteor Turbojet technology was still in its infancy when the Gloster Aircraft Company developed the Meteor. Credit to[…]

Stranded, British and Germans An Astonishing story of the Stranded, British and German soldiers who had downed each others aircraft.[…]

The Broken Tail One of the strangest mysteries to this day. The story of the Lancaster tail that manages to[…]

Not Destroying the Radar In this video I talk about Radar during the Battle of Britain and whether the Luftwaffe[…]

Based in the Soviet Union In 1944, over a thousand US aircraft were based in the Soviet Union as part[…]

Top Bombers of World War 2 In this week’s episode, we continue on the thread of wartime aviation by taking[…]

Black Monday On March 6, 1944, the US Eighth Air Force conducted the first allied daylight raid in force over[…]

B-32 Dominator Consolidated’s bomber, the B-32 Dominator, was the final heavy strategic bomber to enter the U.S. Army Air Forces’[…]

Black Lancasters This is the story of the secret ‘Black Lancasters’, a specially trained RAF unit that was to drop[…]