Speeding Up The Attack – The Marshalls : Crusade In The Pacific: WWII
The Marshalls Crusade in the Pacific looks at the Allied campaign against the Japanese outposts in the Marshall Islands. United[…]
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Big Picture – Drill Sergeant
Drill Sergeant Recruit training, more commonly known as basic training or colloquially boot camp, refers to the initial instruction of[…]
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B-36 Bomber Nuclear Accident, Albuquerque, 1957
Nuclear Accident In 1986, the Albuquerque Journal received documents from an FOIA request. To their surprise, the Air Force had[…]
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Phoney War, the Admiral Graf Spee and the Altmark Incident
the Admiral Graf Spee and the Altmark Incident The History guy remembers a German commerce raider and British prisoners of[…]
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When Britain Invaded Cold War Europe
Britain Invaded Exercise Lionheart in 1984 remains Britain’s biggest exercise since the Second World War. In this episode of Intel,[…]
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How the Germans Cheated the Versailles Treaty
Germans Cheated How the Germans cheated on the Treaty of Versailles (1919)? How effective were their efforts? And why did[…]
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The Secret Invention that Made D-Day Possible
Secret Invention As much as the success of D-Day was down to the bravery of soldiers… it was made possible[…]
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Fishing from Airplanes for Soviet Secrets : What was Skyhook – Operation Coldfeet?
Operation Coldfeet A James Bond style mission to sneak in and steal a Russian science station from the middle of[…]
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Naval Guns at Okinawa Restricted U.S. Navy Film WW2
Naval Guns at Okinawa Produced in 1946 by Jam Handy,, “The Naval Gun At Okinawa” details the important role Navy[…]
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The Quest to Find World War II’s Lost Soldiers
Lost Soldiers Talis Esmits is on a quest to recover the remains of every forgotten World War II soldier in[…]
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