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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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The Battle at St.Vith plus Mastering the Bazooka Rocket Launcher
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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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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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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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German and American Automatic Weapons in World War 2
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Interrogation of Enemy Airmen and Special Operations During World War 2 DVD
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German and American Automatic Weapons in World War 2 DVD
Automatic Weapons: American vs. German The film uses a pair of memorable "shoot outs"
to compare the relative strengths of US automatic weapons with captured
German counterparts.
Enemy Weapons: German infantry Small Arms Captured German arms are used to familiarize American troops with the weapons of their adversary.
Employment of Heavy Machine Guns in the Attack In
the popular mind, the machine gun is thought of as a supremely
effective defensive weapon. This film shows tactics that were used
to make it a potent part of offensive operations.
Rifle, Automatic Cal. .30 Browning M1918A2: Principles of Operation A thorough introduction to the
operation of the BAR, including operational features, magazines and
tripods, and a detailed strip down using live action and animated
illustrations.
Includes two manuals: a 94 page Browning .30 cal , M1919A4 air cooled machine gun manual and a 57 page .30 Cal Browning M1918A2 automatic rifle manual in Adobe Acrobat .pdf file format.
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Three unique World War II films on one DVD
Interrogation
of Enemy Airmen
1943 From the CIA Archives. Techniques for Air Intelligence Officers for interrogating captured German, Italian and Japanese pilot's and aircrew. Shows how different national characteristics and individual personalities should be adapted to and dealt with. Includes interrogation recreations of POWs conducted by actual U.S. intelligence officers plus much more on intelligence gathering methods.
Merrill's
Marauders and the 88th Fighter Squadron in Burma
All the
known footage of Merrill's Marauder's 5307th
Composite Unit (provisional) covert deep
penetration mission behind Japanese lines through the Burmese jungle
to capture the Japanese airfield at Myitkyina, narrated by the combat cameraman who shot the film. Bonus footage includes an up close look at 88th Fighter Squadron
P-40 dive bombers flying out of captured Myitkyina airfield, giving close air support for the Marauder's assault on the
town itself. Highlights: distinctive skull marked
P-40Fs, unique from the cockpit
views of dive bombing runs and 88th FS
armorers custom fitting 250 pound Navy HE depth charges with fins &
detonators for use against jungle fortifications.
Operation
Carpetbagger:
Air
Dropping Agents and Supplies into Nazi Occupied Europe
From
the Archives of the Central Intelligence Agency. Shows the super secret O.S.S operation run out of Harrington, England for air dropping supplies and agents into Nazi occupied Europe. Highlights
include mission planning and flight operations briefing sessions and
a very detailed account of how different kinds of weapons,
ammunition and other supplies were packed in custom containers and
loaded onto specially modified B-24s for moonlit parachute drops.
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The True Glory: From D-Day to the Elbe
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P-47 Thunderbolts Attack DVD
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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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P-47 Thunderbolts Attack! DVD
* The 362nd Fighter Group: On the prowl over Germany Color Exclusive Production This video contains some of the most exciting color air action sequences to come out of World War II. Select 362nd Fighter Group P-47 Thunderbolt fighter/bombers were especially equipped with extra color movie cameras to capture thrilling ground and air attacks as they happened, Spring, 1945.
*The 365 Fighter Group Hell Hawks Color Exclusive Production. More exciting P-47 Thunderbolt action from the skies over Germany, Spring, 1945. You’ll see extensive color footage of the 365th Thunderbolts in their forward bases in France and Belgium and exciting air-to- air and air-to-ground attacks, including rare gun camera film of the shoot down of an Messerschmidt Me 262 jet fighter
* Bonus feature: Gun camera slow motion replay. We have taken the very extensive gun camera footage in these two videos, isolated it into an additional video, and slowed it down so you have time to see what’s really happening.
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Martin B-26 Marauders Go To War DVD
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Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress DVD w Free Memphis Belle DVD
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Order the B-17 & Get Memphis Belle FREE $19.95
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B-26 Marauders Go to War
* White Tailed Marauders: The 323rd Bomb Group and their B-26s New Exclusive Production Rare color film of B-26 Marauders in action
in the Spring of 1945. See the 453rd, 454th, 455th, and 455th Bomb
Squadrons operating against Germany from their base in France.* How to Fly the Martin B-26 "Marauder" The high speed, good bomb load, and durability of this medium bomber made it well suited for low level raids. Highly recommended.
* The Rear Gunner Starring Lt. Ronald Reagan and Lt. Burgess Meredith, a seldom seen look inside an actual World War II bomber gunnery school.
* Building a Bomber: The B-26 See production of a B-26 from metal casting through final assembly.
* 105 page Martin B-26 Marauder pilot's manual in .pdf file format with photos, systems diagrams, performance charts, procedures & more.
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How to Fly the Boeing B-17 DVD
Produced as a set by Boeing Aircraft.
* Part 1:Ground Operations
* Part 2 Flight Operations
* Part 3: Emergency Operations
* Part 4: The Induction system
* B-17F 25 Hour Inspection
* 109 page Boeing B-17 pilot's manual
The Memphis Belle DVD FREE BONUS
*The Memphis Belle (Technicolor ) The
film chronicles the 25th mission of the Boeing B-17 Memphis Belle,
flying deep into Germany to strike the all important U-boat submarine
pens at Wilhemshaven.
This is the original wartime documentary, written and directed by
legendary Academy Award winner William Wyler.
* B-17E 25 Hour Inspection "The Crew Chief" This
is a fascinating B-17 maintenance film, aimed at the B-17 crew
chief.
* 500 page B-17 mechanic's manual This
manual is known as the "B-17 Bible" for good reason. Mechanics and
ground crew used it every day for servicing and assembly of the big
Flying Fortress. Armaments, engines, instruments, electrical systems,
bomb loading, fuselage assembly, landing gear -- that's just a small
portion of what is covered in over 500 pages of charts, illustrations,
tables and detailed instructions.-
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The July Special |
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The F4U DVD
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Get the US Carriers DVD free when you order $19.95
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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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