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- A chronological history of the Battle of Britain between July 10th and September 30th 1940, featuring interviews with eyewitnesses including surviving British and German pilots.
- The campaign in Tunisia in World War Two saw the battles that finally ended the brutal war in the desert. We look at the weapons used and tactics and tell the story of the battle itself.
- Tim Pigott-Smith narrates the story of one of the Second World War's most harrowing episodes - the 890-day siege of the Soviet Union's second city Leningrad which was not liberated until January 1944.
- 2017– 18mTV EpisodeIn 1943 Nazi forces attempt to capture a Soviet salient at Kursk. With their armor hindered by the soggy terrain they turn to the Luftwaffe to serve as airborne artillery. They has some success with this tactic but still fail to advance as the Soviet air forces appear in great numbers to resist. Despire heavy aircraft losses the Soviets prevent the Nazi advance.
- The story of Franz Stigler, a German Luftwaffe pilot in the Second World War who risked his own life to save the crew of an American B-17 bomber.
- 2019– 39mPodcast EpisodeAdrenaline junkie Guy Martin tells Al Murray and James Holland about his new series for 'Channel 4' - 'Guy Martin's Battle of Britain'' in which he trains to fly a 'Hawker Hurricane' and then takes part in a dogfight with a 'Messerschmitt BF 109'. Guy discusses the complexities of flying war planes and his obsession with engines from the Second World War.
- Hitler appreciated the power of aircraft, not only as a military weapon, but as a political tool. During the early 1930s, he hired aircraft for election campaigning, often facing weather and mechanical problems, as well as specific assassination attempts.
- Exploring the history of military tactics - water covers almost two-thirds of the Earth's surface, and assaults from the sea range from massive invasions to spectacular raids.
- The Armchair Historian traces the aircraft used by the German military from 1915 to present day, providing photos and schematics of the most important models.
- Germany makes critical errors during the bombing of Britain.
- In 1942 Lilya Litvyak became the first Soviet woman to shoot down and enemy, Nazi, plane. But that was just the start of her exploits.
- The Curtiss P-40 Warhawk gained fame as the fighter plane of the Flying Tigers. The third most produced American fighter of World War Two it served in the air forces of a dozen countries and every theater of the war.
- 2016– 11mTV EpisodeThe collapse of the Nazi Luftwaffe was due to major intrinsic failures rather than the often cited tactical failures that lost battles.
- 2020– 12mTV EpisodeLockheed's P-38 Lighning looks odd even today. But it was one of the best fighters of World War Two and despised by the Luftwaffe though primarily fielded in the Pacific due its long range.
- 2020– 10mTV EpisodeThe initial combat between the Allies and Nazis in World War Two was initiated by the French in an effort to occupy Saarland. But the French soon withdrew despite substantial numerical superiority.
- In 1944 it is the Soviet's turn for a summer offensive. They quietly prepare a massive assault in Beyelosussia under cover of darkness and a successful campaign in the Urkraine that convinces the Nazis to move units defending Beyelosussia to the Ukraine. The Soviets unleash a blitzkrieg style surprise attack in Beyelosussia that succeeds beyond their wildest dreams and to the disbelief of the Soviet's allies. Hitler's demand that German forces hold their positions ultimately depletes Nazi forces as one army sized unit after another is encircled and destroyed.