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World War 2 in the air and beyond Want to know what it was it like to fly a real P-51 Mustang? Need a gift for a vet who flew one? Wonder what life was like on a carrier fighting in the Pacific? Firing a Bazooka in the "Battle of the Bulge?"
Look no further than our 100+ action packed World War 2 films, all produced between 1941-1945, now on full screen digital home DVDs. You'll experience everything from actual pilot training films produced by aircraft manufacturers to rare color documentaries shot in battle by combat cameramen -- and much more. Many of our aircraft and weapons DVDs contain complete Technical Handbooks with detailed info at no additional charge.
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X-treme Bombers: The Northrop YB-49 "Flying Wing" and the North American XB-70A "Valkyrie"
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US Aircraft Carriers Go to War: World War II Flat Tops in Action DVD
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NEW! Four
films and two flight manuals on one DVD
*Initial Flight of YB-49 This film was produced by the US Air Force and Northrop to show the first the test flights flights of the YB-49 Flying Wing at Northrop' s Hawthorne, California facility, introducing it to the American public for the first time.This aircraft is revealingly shown at all angles, including up close on the ground and in flight.
*The Story of the Flying Wing Northrop Aircraft produced this information film to extol the Wing's virtues and answer her critics. The result is a film that gives a compelling overview of the principles of advantages of the Wing design, delivered by Northrop's Director of Engineering, Harrison F. Burke. You'll see color film of the jet powered wing in operation, supplemented by an extensive use of instructive animations.
*XB-70 Valkyrie Flight Test Program This film, produced by North American Aviation, gives a concise overview of the early phases of the XB-70A aircraft design, construction, development and testing. You'll see Phase one & two flight tests and "proof loading" structural tests. The use and testing of "folded wing tips" and retraction of the "windshield ramp"in supersonic flight is discussed in detail along with the innovative air induction system. On the17th flight, on Oct 14th, 1965, the Valkyrie breaks the Mach 3 barrier and flies at over 70,0000 feet.
*XB-70A Valkyrie: Phase One Flight Testing The critical first four flight tests of the XB-70A over 34 days at Edwards AFB are shown in detail culminating in the aircrafts first supersonic flight. As might be expected, these early f lights included some dramatic moments, including an in flight engine flame out and one of the landing gear bursting into flames during touch down. But, as mission chief test pilot Col Al White says, "if there were no problems during testing, you wouldn't need test pilots or test flights.
*Flight
Handbook for the Northrop YB-49 Airplane (77 pages) *North
American XB-70A "Valkyrie" Flight Manual (380 pages )
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The Battle of Midway Award Winning Documentary Directed by four time Oscar Winner John Ford This stirring documentary was shot by Director John Ford during the intense June 4th Japanese carrier plane attacks on Midway Island and by Navy Combat Cameramen abord the USS Yorktown during the epic carrier battle, along with color gun camera film of air to air and air to sea combat.
The Fleet that Came to Stay tells the high tension story of the defense of the Okinawa landing beaches by US carrier planes against Kamikaze attacks - some of the most exciting air combat footage to come out of World War II.
The Second Battle of the Philippines: The Battle of Leyte Gulf was the largest Naval engagement in history, swirling around the 1944 invasion of Leyte Island and the Japanese navy's surprise counterstrike. You'll see dramatic naval surface battles and carrier air footage.
The Life and Death of the USS Hornet tells the dramatic story of the legendary aircraft carrier, the USS Hornet (CV-8), from her launching by Newport News Shipbuilding on Dec 14, 1941 through her dramatic loss on 27 October 1942 after the Battle of Santa Cruz off Guadalcanal.
The Saga of the Franklin New Print! Inspiring documentary shows how the gallant officers and men of the distinguished Essex class carrier USS Franklin overcame incredible battle damage inflicted by a devastating bomb hit to save their ship and bring it home. The film also contains rare and informative color footage of late war Vought F4U Corsair and Curtiss SB2C Helldiver combat operations from the Franklin right off the coast of Japan.
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Record Breaker: The B-58 Hustler Story Volume 1
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Armored Attack! US Tanks in Action in World War 2
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Record Breaker: The B-58 Hustler Story DVD Volume 1
A pilot once said of the B-58, "She
looked like she was breaking the sound barrier just sitting on the
tarmac." The B-58 wasn't just one of the fastest bombers
of her day, she was one of the fastest military planes period. In the early 1960s the B-58 gained
14 speed and performance records, many previously held by Soviet
aircraft.
* B-58 Bendix Trophy Race 1962 (Color) On March 5th, 1962, Capt Robert G Sauer & his crew in
"Tall Man 55" took off from Carswell AFB, Fort Worth, Texas to break
three transcontinental speed records in one day, over 4,500 miles --
in "Operation Heat Rise."
* B-58 Low Altitude Bombing Capability (Color) This film focuses on the low altitude sections of "Tall
Man 55s" record breaking March 5th flight. Great views of the Hustler
at very low altitude from inside & outside the cockpit at Mach two.
* The Bleriot Trophy (Color) In 1930 the French aviation pioneer established a prize for the first aircraft to average over 2,000 kph for thirty minutes. See how B-58 Hustler "Firefly" took the prize.
* Champion of Champions (Color) Isn't that the legendary star and war hero James Stewart
climbing out of the pilot's seat of the B-58 that just touched down?
"Yup!" -- and he's ready willing and able to give you his first
hand impressions of an aircraft he is obviously has fallen in love
with.
DVD includes two B-58 flight manuals with over 450 pages of detailed information.
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NEW *The
10th Armored Division in World War 2: Tigers on the Loose. ( Archival footage and interviews. The 10th Armored
Division served with distinction with George Patton's Third Army from
the Fall of 1945 through the final defeat of the German Army in May
1945. This thorough documentary, prepared by the US Army's Pictorial
Center after the war, combines excellent archival film footage,
comprehensive maps, and in depth interviews with key personnel from
Commanding General William H.H. Morris down the chain of command to
front line NCOs.
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Tank Destroyer Boot Camp in Color This unique
color documentary gives a rare look inside "Camp" Hood's
tank destroyer troop training school in 1943. Includes up close
looks at M 10 Tank Destroyers and camp facilities. Highlights
include target practice using field guns and M10s against moving
targets, field maneuvers against tanks, live fire exercises, armored
infantry assaults and bazooka training.
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Operating Light and Medium Tanks Features M5
"Stuart" light and M3 "Lee" medium tanks inside
and out in a variety of situations. You'll learn about engines,
instruments, fuel systems, starting, gear shifting, turning,
breaking, general driving instruction, track maintenance and more.
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TM 9-1729A Technical Manual for Light Tanks M5 ("Stuart"),
M5A1, and M24 ("Chaffee"), 75mm Howitzer Motor Carriage M8
and Twin Motor Carriage 40-mm Gun M19: Engines, Cooling Systems and
Fuel Systems. 150 pages in Adobe Acrobat ,pdf file format.
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M4 "Sherman" M4A3 Medium Tank Technical manual 64 pages in
Adobe Acrobat ,pdf file format. Includes technical data, operating
instructions, engines and more.
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Winning Your Wings
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X-Planes and Test Pilots DVD
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Winning Your Wings: U.S. World War
II Aviation Training DVD NEW
Naval Aviation Cadet Color This
color film follows the career of a Navy cadet from enlistment soon
after Pearl Harbor through Primary and Advanced Flight training and
on into combat..Especially memorable are the many scenes shot at
Pensacola Naval Air Station flight school andfor extensive, rare color footage of a wide variety of
USN training and early war combat aircraft, including Vought OS2U
Kingfisher catapult float planes, Boeing N2S Kaydets, North American
SNJs, Vultee SNV-1 Valiants, Brewster F2A Buffaloes and SB2A
Buccaneers in flight, Consolidated PBY Catalinas and Grumman F4F
Wildcats operating off a carrier deck.
Winning Your Wings This rousing recruiting film was designed to show the
many benefits of joining the Air Corps.The film shows that joining the Air Corps provides a quick path to
non com and high paying officer status and an advanced training
program that would prove beneficial after the War. The film points
out that every U.S. Air Force bombardier, navigator and pilot was an
officer (a sore point with the RAF)
Cadet Classification Narrated by Lt. Ronald Reagan. Most young men who joined the
Air Corps, wanted to be a pilot, but was up to the the training
schools to determine where they made the best fit, "Bombardier,
Navigator or Pilot."
Wings Up Narrated by
Academy Award Winner Capt. Clark Gable. This film was developed by
the Army Air Corps to show men what to expect when they entered
Officer's Candidate School in Miami, Fla.There was a lot more to
becoming an
officer than learning how to fly
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NEW!
* Profile of a Flight Test Pilot This film was developed by personnel at the Army Air
Corps top secret Wright Field flight test facility to give pilots the
low down on what to expect if they joined their aircraft testing
program. But, there is much more. You also get a look behind the
curtain at Wright Field at some of the rarest and most bizarre aircraft produced during
World War II, including one-off prototypes.
* Research Test of Convair Model 7002/XF92A Airplane at U.S. Air Force Test Base Muroc, California This airplane was the world's first jet aircraft
to fly using the radical delta-wing configuration pioneered by
Germany's Dr. Alexander Lippisch. This
rare color film shows the 7002 being tested by Consolidated in 1948 at the Muroc Test Base in California. It's hard to imagine a more
influential aircraft, as the delta wing was not only adopted in the
Convair's F-102 and B-58, but also in a long series of other US,
British, French, and Russian designs.
* X-15 1960 (1960, COLOR, 27:00) This documentary was produced by North American Aviation to show the development of the X-15 rocket plane. The legendary test pilot, Scott Crossfield is at the controls.
The test site is once again Edwards Air Force Base. There is some
beautiful color footage of X-15 flights here as well as scenes
of support, development and construction.
* X-15 1961 Annual Report (1961, COLOR, 18:00) The X-15 program really takes off in a record breaking year with Joe Walker, Scott Crossfield, Niel Armstrong and other legendary test pilots at the controls, soaring past Mach 3.
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North American B-25 DVD
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The Battle at St.Vith plus Mastering the Bazooka Rocket Launcher
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The B-25 DVD
How to Fly the North American B-25 "Mitchell" This is the plane that Jimmy Doolittle chose to fly off the carrier Hornet for the famous raid on Tokyo. The '25 was the US's most produced medium bomber.
* Air Operations Lae-Salamaua See spectacular in cockpit views of B-25 Mitchell medium bomber making strafing runs on Japanese bases as well as some of the first ever "on the deck" tail gunner views of delayed action and "para frag" bombs dropping & exploding right behind the hedge hopping Mitchells.
* Winged Artillery Nine 75mm canon firing B-25Gs of the 48th Bomb Squadron conduct a hair raising tree top level strike on the Japanese air base on Mille.
* 94 page North American B-25 pilot's manual in pdf file format
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The
Battle at St. Vith This
remarkable documentary of a critical engagement in the Battle of the
Bulge combines eyewitness reports from key
participants on both sides with outstanding archival footage, detailed maps, and a return
to revisit the actual terrain where each phase of this desperate battle was fought..
Mastering
the Bazooka Rocket Launcher
The
Bazooka was a revolutionary weapon that combined a man portable
"Stove pipe" rocket launcher with a shaped charge warhead, putting awesome firepower in the hands of a single soldier at extended ranges for the first time.
Launcher,
Rocket, AT, M1 Technical Manual in Adobe Acrobat pdf
file format.
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Airstrike Vietnam DVD
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B-24 Liberators Go to War DVD
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The Twenty-Five Hour Day; A Story of Air Force F-105s This film, produced by Fairchild-Hiller-Republic for the US Air Force, offers a unique look inside F-105 “Thunderchief” (The "Thud”) fighter-bomber operations when the air campaign against North Vietnamese supply lines was ramping up into high gear.
FAC F-100 Supports US Army You'll see an Air Force Forward Air Controller (FAC) assigned to the 1st Division, flying a tiny Cessna O-1E “Bird Dog,” operating in conjunction with three F-100 fighter bombers out of Phan Rang and local Army artillery. Their mission: is in support of 3rd Brigade operations against VC bases near Lai Khe, 50 miles from Saigon.
Air Power at Khe Sanh In the Spring and Summer of 1967, North Vietnamese commander General Giap targeted III Marine Amphibious Force and South Vietnamese Army units stationed in and around Khe Sanh, in Northwestern Quang Tri province, with 2-3 NVA divisions.You'll see dramatic low level airstikes against enemy forces almost on top of besieged US Marines, all part of Operation Niagra, the coordinated aerial defense of the base.
Tactical Air Power This film gives an overview of US tactical air operations and doctrine, circa1967, with an emphasis on the then ongoing Vietnam War. You'll see Air Force, Navy, and Marine aircraft, including F4s, F-100s, F105s and conducting dramatic airstrikes and the introduction of the new F-111”swing wing” bomber. C-130 cargo operations are shown in detail, including very low level air drops, resupply under fire and worldwide refugee relief.
Flight Manual for the USAF Series F-105 Series D, F and G 'Thunderchief” all-weather fighter bomber. Over 800 pages of information on normal and emergency flight procedures, operating limitations, flight characteristics, weapons systems, full performance indexes & much more.
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* The 98th Bomb Group: Liberators Over Africa (1943, B&W, 27:00) New Exclusive Recently discovered footage shows Medal of Honor winner Col. John
R. "Killer " Kane and the men of the 98th Bomb Group in the Summer of
1943, shortly before the heroic, costly Ploesti mission, at their
desert base in Benghasi/Benina, Libya. There's an unexpected gem too. Soon after the Axis
surrender in Tunisia, 9th combat cameraman Jim Bray hitched a ride on
a B-24 and filmed all the major North African targets the 98th had hit
from the air, from El Alemein to Tunis. * Liberators Over Europe, 1942-45 New From Ploesti to Berlin,
you'll discover memorable Liberator scenes not not found anywhere else,
including pulse pounding air attacks. You'll see B-24 crews up close
too along with their ships.
* 1st Air Division Bombing Highlights 1944-45 New Ball
turret gunners were given 16mm cameras and told to film what they saw
on bombing missions over the Third Reich.You'll see raids on Berlin,
Luneberg, the U-Boat pens at Bremen, Muenster, Ingolstadt, Regensburg, Dresden
and many more cities.
Bonus Captured
Luftwaffe film shows the downing of 15 US bombers, one at a time, by FW
190 fighters.
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The March Special |
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Boeing B-52 Stratofortresses Go to War
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Order the B-52 & get the B-47 FREE $18.95
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March Special
Order the B-52 & get the B-47 Free
The B-52 DVD
B-52: Vietnam - Operations Out of U Tapao
Air Base, Thailand The focus of this dramatic
film is an "Arc Light" bombing mission flown by Pilot
Captain George Dietrich and the crew of B-52 D "075,"
4258th Strategic Wing out of U Tapao, Thailand in support of the
besieged marine base at Khe Sahn in Vietnam in 1968. You'll ride along with them in their B-52 and see them relax back at the base.
B-52 Landing Analysis This step by step instructional film, produced by the US Air Force, is all
about how to land the big B-52 "Buff."
A landing is shown in detail, along with a number of "right way-wrong way" examples.
Flight Without a Fin This remarkable training film is the result of an
unplanned accident. A B-52H, on loan from the Air Force to Boeing
Aircraft for a series of performance tests, was hit by an
extraordinary 10 second "microburst" of turbulence on a low
level sortie over Colorado that literally ripped off most of its tail
fin.. See how they brought it home.
* Boeing B-52D Flight Manual (1,100 pages in printable Adobe Acrobat .pdf file format)
Fitted to carry a maximum conventional bomb load, the B-52D flew the
bulk of strategic bombing missions in the Vietnam War. This very comprehensive
manual with color highlights includes a thorough desciption of the
aircraft, normal and emergency procedures, operating limitations,
flight characteristics, systems operations, crew duties and much
more.
The Boeing B-47 Stratojet DVD Free!
* Stratojet: Meet Your Boeing B-47You'll see the design, development, and
manufacturing of the B-47. Then you'll follow a crew from SAC's
McConnell Air Force Base (3250th Combat Crew Training
Wing) on a training mission that simulates a night attack on a target
in the US. There are some great shots of the Stratojet on the ground
and in the air, including night air refueling.
* B-47 Combat Maneuvers In 1954 the Air Force conducted a series of tests
that showcased the B-47's outstanding agility, doing “toss
bombing.” The aircraft would approach the target low and at high
speed, pull up sharply, open bomb bay doors, use momentum to
literally fling the bomb towards the target and then execute the rest
of a half loop Immelman turn so that they were flying back in the
opposite direction. Seeing the big B-47 execute this maneuver
(and barrel rolls too!) is truly memorable. Cameras located all over
the aircraft give unique views during the test flights.
* Two extensive B-47 Flight Manuals
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