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Welcome.
 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? Driving a tank 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.
Unlike other historic film publishers, we have digitally restored many of our videos and have supplied footage for programs shown on the History, Discovery and A&E channels, for PBS documentaries, and to air museums for video displays.
We've created new categories that moves beyond World War II aircraft, "World War II Classics," that includes outstanding Army, Navy and Marine combat and weapons training films, and we've expanded our post WW2 jet aircraft division into the 1950's and '60s.
Speed, value & high quality. 99% of our orders ship on the same or next business day and our products are always in stock. Choose "Priority Mail" for economical 2 day delivery to most US locations. International orders are welcome. If you live outside of North America our DVDs are not "region limited," will play on PAL & SECAM players.
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Screamin' Banshees: The McDonnell F2H Fighter Goes to War
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Winning Your Wings
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Films on this DVD have received digital color correction and noise reduction restoration.
Naval Areal Tactics featuring the F2H-2 Banshee Color Produced by the Navy Department during the Korean War, this unique film is of compelling interest for two reasons. It features truly outstanding color footage of F2H-2 Banshee fighters operating singly and in squadron formation, dancing agilely among towering cumulus clouds. Second, it opens a fascinating window on US Navy carrier launched fighter operations and tactics from the time of the Korean War.
Meet the McDonnell F2H Produced by McDonnell aircraft, this film served as an introduction to their newest fighter the FH2, and details it's numerous improvements over the companies first jet fighter, the FH-1 Phantom. You'll get a walk around of the aircraft and see her doing spectacular aerobatics. Then you'll get a look inside the McDonnell assembly line to see FH2 construction and inside a Westinghouse engine plant to see production and testing of her compact yet powerful J34 axial flow turbojets. Finally, you'll see her high and low speed performance capabilities, including mock carrier landings and outstanding single engine performance.
Carrier Action Off Korea This film gives an historical summary of the role played by carrier forces in the Korean War, as told through dramatic, first person documentary footage of carrier operations and gun camera film. You'll see McDonnell F2H Banshees, Grumman F9F Panthers, Douglas AD-1 Sky Raiders and World War II vintage Vought F4Us on the deck, in the air and pounding targets.
* 44 page McDonnell FH2-1 "Pilots Handbook" in Adobe Acrobat .pdf file format with text, and illustrations, including flight and systems controls, fuel and electrical systems, operating instructions, takeoffs and landings, dives, flight characteristics, gun site controls, emergency procedures, operating charts, tables and diagrams and much more.
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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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Dive! Dive! Dive! DVD
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Battle of Britain & Target for Tonight DVD
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Submarine Warfare in the Pacific New This film was completed shortly after the end of the War and contains dramatic footage on US submarine operations you won't find anywhere else. See Tirante, Trigger and other subs in action along with their crews.
The Capture of U-505 New During June, 1944, Task Force "Guadalcanal" under Captain Daniel V. Gallery was on station off West Africa, hunting U-Boats. Gallery's objective was to capture a German submarine intact, for the first time ever. Here's how he did it
Design for War New Battle of the Atlantic, 1939-1941. Hitler unleashes the U-Boats. The Allies try to protect convoys. U-Boat "aces" in action.
Killers and the Killed New Victory in the Atlantic, 1943-1945. The Allies develop an effective air and sea ant-submarine strategy to close the "mid-ocean gap."
Full Fathom Five New The Road to Victory in the Pacific 1942-1945. The US builds, trains and deploys an amazingly effective submarine force in the Pacific
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The Battle of Britain Frank Capra's award winning portaryl of one of the epic air battles of world War 2. Unique footage, digitally restored. Target for Tonight RAF Bomber Command in a Night Action Target for Tonight" follows the crew "F for Freddie, " a Vicker's Wellington medium bomber through an entire low level night mission attacking an oil storage depot at a rail yard in Germany. * 50 page Vicker's Wellington pilot's manual in .pdf file format * 30 Page Spitfire V (A,B &C) Pilot's Notes in pdf file format
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The Battle at St.Vith plus Mastering the Bazooka Rocket Launcher
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Record Breaker: The B-58 Hustler Story Volume 1
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NEW
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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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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Endgame in North Africa:The Final Defeat of Rommel's Afrika Corps
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Airstrike Vietnam DVD
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NEW
Two feature films on one DVD
*News From the Front in North Africa 1942 Shot In Technicolor by US Army, Navy and O.S.S. cameraman in Morrocco, Algeria and Tunisia, November-December 1942. A new Archival release with color correction. Hands down some of the best color footage we have seen from World War 2.T his was tough "on the job training" for the brand new American Army and Air Corps.
Highlights include: Very low level Luftwaffe bombing and staffing runs against shipping, towns, troops and and airfields by Ju 88s. He 111's and very rare shots of ME 210s flying right overhead. The Battle of Taboura unfolds in broad valley in a panoramic tableau right out of a scene from "Patton" -- and you get an armchair view of the action. German Tiger tanks and infantry advance in the open and are turned back by withering Allied gun fire. See a low altitude dogfight between P-38s. Spitfires and Messerschmidts, as photographed from the ground. Footage of tactical combat maneuvering like this between fighters is extremely rare!* A treasure trove of early war color footage of Allied forces, including Grant medium and Stewart light takes, half tracks, jeeps, and US and British soldiers in combat kit both at rest and in fierce fighting.
*Tunisian Victory An American-British feature length co production in very good black and white film, reminiscent of the Academy Award Winner, "The True Glory." This is the climactic final chapter in the defeat of Rommel's Africa Korps told in an epic, wide ranging presentation. American, British, and French forces strike from the West in Operation Torch, landing in Morocco and Algeria, the first major amphibious strike of World War 2. British and Commonwealth forces continue their drive from Egypt, through the Mareth Line in Southern Tunisia. And "action packed" is an understatement! You'll see all aspects of Allied air, sea, parachute and ground operations from beach landings through the final mass surrender of the Africa Korps, including a mountain of dramatic combat footage ranging across the North African front. There's a wide variety of Allied and Axis tanks and armored vehicles featured too, along with many aircraft like the A-20, B-25,B-17, B-24, Spitfire,Hurricane, Beaufighter, P-38, P-39, P-40 and more in action. The film has plenty of animated strategic and tactical maps that make this complex operation easy to grasp.
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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 True Glory: From D-Day to the Elbe
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Airborne Assault! American and German Airborne Operations
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- * "The True Glory" From D-Day to the Elbe The classic Academy Award winning documentary is brought back to life See the campaign across Northern Europe as told through the lenses of hundreds of combat cameramen and eye witness accounts. Ike says "Teamwork wins Wars.". An absolute must see.Inspirational with some of the most memorable footage I have seem from World War II. Highly recommended!" Zeno
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- * Normandy: the Airborne Invasion of Fortress Europe This detailed film was produced during the war to show the
strategic and tactical planning that went into the airborne component
of the D-Day invasion, and to document it's execution. If you think you've seen all there is to see about D-Day, you haven't seen this film.
- *Sky Blitz This dramatic German documentary on the
airborne invasion of Holland in May, 1941 was captured
and turned into a training tool by the US Army Air Corp. It's a text book case.
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The July Special |
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The F4U DVD
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The July SpecialOrder the F4U & get "US Carriers Go to War" Free
The F4U DVD * How to Fly the F4U Learn to fly the fastest and most powerful carrier fighter of World War II
* Offensive Fighter Tactics Color (Full length, unedited) Learn the tactics US Navy fighter pilot's developed during the first two years of the War against the nimble Japanese Zero. This vintage pilot training film covers everything from situational awareness to one-on-one dog fights and squadron tactics.
* Hook Down, Wheels Down Produced by the Department of the Navy to celebrate the first 50 years of carrier based aviation, with an emphasis on World War II. Along with some great Navy action, the highlight of the film are the numerous interviews with famous naval aviators, including John Thatch on inventing the "Thatch Weave."
* The Saga of the Franklin See the gallant officers and men of the carrier Franklin overcame incredible battle damage to save their ship. Plus rare and informative color footage of late war F4U Corsair carrier ops.
* 64 page F4U Corsair pilot's manual
Plus Free US Carriers Go to War DVD
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