Month: February 2020

Battle of the Seelow Heights 1945

Last German Defence line before Berlin In 1945, the last German defence line before Berlin were the Seelow Heights, overlooking[…]

Making of Platoon A wonderful documentary on the making of Oliver Stone’s “Platoon.” It features full interviews with all the[…]

Minnesota soldiers, 1969 WCCO-TV “Grunts Little War” Vietnam War Documentary on Minnesota soldiers, 1969 Credit to : tcmedianow

The Quiet Mutiny 1970 Documentary by Australian journalist John Pilger with interviews with disillusioned Vietnam conscript soldiers Credit to[…]

The Gabilan Story USS Gabilan, a Gato-class submarine, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named[…]

Landing Vehicle Tracked This “restricted” World War II-era black-and-white film was produced by the US Navy to introduce the viewer[…]

The DUKW The DUKW (colloquially known as Duck) is a six-wheel-drive amphibious modification of the 2½-ton CCKW trucks used by[…]

D-Day in Colour The Normandy landings were the landing operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of[…]

Sweden Neutral in WW2 Why was Sweden Neutral In WW2? During this intense period, the country of Sweden managed to[…]

P 38 Lightning The Lockheed P-38 Lightning is a World War II–era American piston-engined fighter aircraft. Developed for the United[…]