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After decades of wondering what became of their combat interpreter, some U.S. Navy SEALs attempt to find Nguyen Hoang Minh, who was left behind in the aftermath of the Vietnam War.

A team of maritime archaeologists descend 700 feet off the coast of North Carolina in search of the U-576, a German submarine that went down in a historic 1942 battle.

The battleship USS Arizona Memorial in Hawaii's Pearl Harbor is a scientific treasure due to the marine environment that formed around it.

Reliving the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor Dec. 7, 1941, and the sinking of the battleship USS Arizona.

A woman retraces the steps of her father, former Rhode Island Governor Bruce Sundlun, who flew the B-17 bomber "Damn Yankee" on combat missions over Germany during World War II.

Dive into tales of a strange Japanese balloon bomb, mysterious U-boat sightings and deep-sea anomalies that surfaced during the world wars. These weird wartime encounters challenge the boundaries of logic and history with every eerie detail.

Did WWII pilots really witness glowing orbs in the night sky? Could bat bombs have changed the course of the war? Explore otherworldly sightings and explosive experiments that blur the line between science, fear and folklore.

Explore WWII's oddest military experiments, from Stalin's canine commandos and Rommel's buried Nazi treasure to unexplained aerial circles reported by RAF pilots. These are the forgotten footnotes of history that defy belief.

Dive into deeply unsettling wartime legends: from Stalin's rumored attempts to create human-ape hybrids to reports of Nazi zombie spies and a strange plague that surfaced decades later.

This eerie installment of weird wartime mysteries and military deception includes Stalin's obsession with flying saucers, a ghost army built to fool Hitler, and the mysterious disappearance of bandleader Glenn Miller.

Magicians joining the war effort, a double agent who deceived Hitler and strange UFO sightings over Canada? These bizarre stories prove that our world wars were even weirder than we were taught in school.

In the closing days of World War II, a daring band of American pilots embarks on a secret mission to capture a revolutionary German aircraft that will change the course of history.

The story of defending France against Hitler's invading army, to enable over 300,000 men of the British Expeditionary Force and Allied troops to be evacuated across the English Channel in 1940.

Untold stories of Australian army nurses who served in the Vietnam War.

After decades of wondering what became of their combat interpreter, some U.S. Navy SEALs attempt to find Nguyen Hoang Minh, who was left behind in the aftermath of the Vietnam War.

A team of maritime archaeologists descend 700 feet off the coast of North Carolina in search of the U-576, a German submarine that went down in a historic 1942 battle.

The battleship USS Arizona Memorial in Hawaii's Pearl Harbor is a scientific treasure due to the marine environment that formed around it.

Reliving the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor Dec. 7, 1941, and the sinking of the battleship USS Arizona.

Advances in weaponry include the invention of gunpowder.

Walter Hunt invents a "magazine" for loading of semi-automatic and automatic weapons.

The destructive power of Atomic Annie, the United States' first 280mm Howitzer first tested in 1953; the history of artillery since the advent of gunpowder.

Documenting civilization's earliest forts, barricades and battlements; defensive structures dating back to ancient Assyria, Egypt and Greece.

The idea of tanks began as an extension of armory.

Tracing the history of ships since the second millennia B.C. and their uses for battle, trade, exploration, and piracy.

Tracing the history of submarines back from the time of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C. to the first military submarine in 1776.

The first fighter aircraft were flimsy contraptions made up of wood and fabric.

The German Rumpler Taube rolled off the production line in 1911 and the planes were used in combat.

History and background of fighters, bombers, helicopters, surface fleets, armed vehicles, submarines and grenades; past, present and future.

Today's attack Helicopters show the versatility of this war machine.

Countries such as North Korea, China and Pakistan continue to develop and test nuclear missiles.

Advances in weaponry include the invention of gunpowder.

Walter Hunt invents a "magazine" for loading of semi-automatic and automatic weapons.

The destructive power of Atomic Annie, the United States' first 280mm Howitzer first tested in 1953; the history of artillery since the advent of gunpowder.

Documenting civilization's earliest forts, barricades and battlements; defensive structures dating back to ancient Assyria, Egypt and Greece.

The idea of tanks began as an extension of armory.

Tracing the history of ships since the second millennia B.C. and their uses for battle, trade, exploration, and piracy.

Tracing the history of submarines back from the time of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C. to the first military submarine in 1776.

The first fighter aircraft were flimsy contraptions made up of wood and fabric.

The German Rumpler Taube rolled off the production line in 1911 and the planes were used in combat.

History and background of fighters, bombers, helicopters, surface fleets, armed vehicles, submarines and grenades; past, present and future.