2024-07-01
British fighter pilot Douglas Bader is profiled. (Repeat).
Examining a highly dangerous Air Force assignment. (Repeat).
Hitler's decision to support Mussolini, whose forays into North Africa and Greece proved disastrous, is addressed. Included: the war in North Africa; the battle for Malta; the Allied invasion of Italy. (Repeat).
The efforts of the Allies and Nazis to deliver knockout blows to end the war are recounted. The Allies tried the "strategic bombing" of Germany's infrastructure and cities, but that led to the calamity of Dresden. For the Germans, it meant attacking the American supply lines to Britain. (Repeat).
The consequence of Germany's failure to defeat Russian forces at Stalingrad and Moscow: the regouping of the Red Army, which was able to push German forces out of Russia and through Ukraine, Poland, the Balkans and Hungary. (Repeat).
D-Day, when Allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy. Included: the specialized equipment needed for the amphibious landing; the deception operations that stymied Hitler; how the Americans were almost driven off Omaha Beach; the liberation of Paris. (Repeat).
The headway that American, British and Russian forces made against Nazi Germany in 1944 is detailed. Included: the Allied disaster at Arnhem; the Warsaw uprising; the liberation of the death camps; the German counteroffensive in the Ardennes. (Repeat).
The war in the Pacific is recounted, including the June 1944 Battle of the Philippine Sea (aka the Great Marianas Turkey Shoot), which battered the Japanese Navy. Also: the use of specialized units to wage jungle warfare in Burma. (Repeat).
Newly discovered secret files reveal the massive drugs program that fuelled the Nazi war machine. (Repeat).
Nazi scientists work on developing a solar mirror that could destroy any city on Earth while situated 5,100 miles in space. (Repeat).
The term Arian is used to define the blonde-haired, blue-eyed, Nordic strong men. It's a definition based on a myth, cynically corrupted by Adolf Hitler and his racist followers. The German people are desperate for national pride, a heritage to ...1942, Europe and North Africa are in the grip of Nazi supremecists. The Germans seem unstoppable in their quest for world domination. Driving the Nazi a
Why did Hitler have an aversion to bio-weapons? A convincing theory is because of his experiences from the first world war when in October 1918, a young corporal Hitler is fighting on the frontline when he thinks he's been blinded by a mustard g ...By the summer of 1943, the tides of war are flowing in the allies favour. Germany is running out resources and man power. They are starting to clutch a
Newly discovered secret files reveal the massive drugs program that fuelled the Nazi war machine. (Repeat).
Nazi scientists work on developing a solar mirror that could destroy any city on Earth while situated 5,100 miles in space. (Repeat).
The term Arian is used to define the blonde-haired, blue-eyed, Nordic strong men. It's a definition based on a myth, cynically corrupted by Adolf Hitler and his racist followers. The German people are desperate for national pride, a heritage to ...1942, Europe and North Africa are in the grip of Nazi supremecists. The Germans seem unstoppable in their quest for world domination. Driving the Nazi a
Why did Hitler have an aversion to bio-weapons? A convincing theory is because of his experiences from the first world war when in October 1918, a young corporal Hitler is fighting on the frontline when he thinks he's been blinded by a mustard g ...By the summer of 1943, the tides of war are flowing in the allies favour. Germany is running out resources and man power. They are starting to clutch a
The headway that American, British and Russian forces made against Nazi Germany in 1944 is detailed. Included: the Allied disaster at Arnhem; the Warsaw uprising; the liberation of the death camps; the German counteroffensive in the Ardennes. (Repeat).
The war in the Pacific is recounted, including the June 1944 Battle of the Philippine Sea (aka the Great Marianas Turkey Shoot), which battered the Japanese Navy. Also: the use of specialized units to wage jungle warfare in Burma. (Repeat).
July 1861: In what will be the first real battle of the Civil War, untested and poorly trained Confederate troops clash on the blood-soaked banks of the Bull Run River in Virginia. (Repeat).
September 1862: Following a string of victories in Virginia, Confederate General Robert E. Lee brings his Army north in a bold attempt to end the Civil War and win Southern independence. (Repeat).
The Union defeat at the Battle of Fredericksburg (Virginia), on Dec. 13, 1862, when Gen. Ambrose Burnside was unable to break through Gen. Robert E. Lee's defenses at Mayre's Heights, is recalled. (Repeat).
The Battle of Gettysburg, the momentous three-day engagement in Pennsylvania in July 1863 that marked the turning point of the Civil War, is recalled. (Repeat).
A fugitive terrorizes banks in New Jersey, and the FBI get help from a local detective and a former police informant to find him. (Repeat).
A crew of violent thieves are traced to a tough neighborhood in Boston. (Repeat).