World War Two

Japan and the US Occupation – Cold War Documentary

History of Japan after World War II Our series on the history of the Cold War period continues with a[…]

German and Japanese POWs We are continuing our historical documentary series on the Cold War with a video on the[…]

Hitlers Secret Aircraft The Horten H.IX, RLM designation Ho 229 (often called Gotha Go 229 due to the identity of[…]

Secret German Bases Planning for war requires proper consideration of supporting medical services and rescue protocols. As Germany prepared to[…]

Rocket Kamikazes! During the Battle of Okinawa in 1945, the Japanese unleashed massed Kamikaze attacks, including a fearsome new rocket-propelled[…]

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[…]

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

Best German WW2 General I regularly get asked who I consider the best German General of World War 2 or[…]

Why Germany Lost WW2 Oil was in desperately short supply for the Axis powers in WW2. One historian describes it[…]