Aircraft of WII together in a great aviation package and a must for anyone interested in these two aircraft which opposed each other explosively in the war-torn skies over Europe. Image quality may vary at times depending on source material used, but a definite aviation must have - and what rare footage!

The Boeing B-29 Superfortress is a four-engine propeller-driven heavy bomber designed by Boeing and flown primarily by the United States during World War II and the Korean War. Named in allusion to its predecessor, the B-17 Flying Fortress, the Superfortress was designed for high-altitude strategic bombing but also excelled in low-altitude night incendiary bombing, and in dropping naval mines to blockade Japan. B-29s also dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, becoming the only aircraft to ever use nuclear weaponry in combat.

Cock-up or conspiracy? Seldom have the stakes for what sounds like a dinner-party game of alternative histories been so momentous as when discussing the Japanese attack on the US Pacific fleet on December 7, 1941. Conspiracy theories concerning prior knowledge about the shock that propelled the US into the war started almost at once: Roosevelt allegedly knew in advance, Churchill ditto — both realized that only drastic action could involve the predominantly antiwar Americans.

Michael Wittman didn't know, when he enlisted at 19, what kind of fate awaited him fighting for the Axis Powers. Regarded as one of the Nazi's most effective and feared tank commanders, his death is shrouded in mystery. How was he defeated, and by who?

This documentary tells the story of the German prisoners of war who were shipped to Camp Ruston in Northern Louisiana in 1943. The prisoners housed at the camp include two German U-Boat Crews, Kreigsmarine in German, and German soldiers from the elite North Afrika Korp under the command of General Erwin Rommel, who were considered the best in Hitler's Third Reich. The program includes photos and other archival material along with re-enactments of the activities at the camp.

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This documentary from September 20, 2004, focuses on the 4,315 German prisoners of war from World War II who were housed at Camp Ruston in Ruston, Louisiana, from 1943-1946. The prisoners of war served in General Erwin Rommel’s North Afrika Korps and the Kriegsmarine, or German Navy. The documentary touches on: Camp Ruston’s first role as a training site for the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps; life at Camp Ruston for the German POWs; and the secret capture of German U-boat U-505 and subsequent detention of the crew at Camp Ruston.

Thousands of soldiers were killed in the last battles of World War II. US troops who fought in the Hürtgen Forest nicknamed it the "Death Factory." This documentary features original film from US archives that bring the battle back to life.

It's estimated that as many as 30 thousand US and German soldiers were killed in fighting in the northern Eifel region of Germany in the autumn and winter of 1944 and 1945. Traces of the battle - old bunkers, munitions, trenches and tank tracks - are still visible even today. The scarred landscape bears witness to a little-known chapter of World War Two. The "Hürtgen Forest" was the last obstacle standing between US forces and the Rhine River and Ruhr. Yet the decision to advance into the thick forest in September 1944 proved to be a fatal mistake. The Americans completely miscalculated North Eifel region's rugged terrain. They became disoriented in an area the German forces, the Wehrmacht, had crisscrossed with trenches and peppered with anti-personnel mines, making the wood into a veritable fortress. Continual rain and fog, followed by snow and frigid temperatures, turned the battle into a scene of dystopian butchery. Author Ernest Hemingway spent 18 days on the front in the Hürtgen Forest. He wrote later, "It was a place where it was extremely difficult for a man to stay alive even if all he did was be there."

This documentary reconstructs the stages of the battle using commentary from survivors of the clash. Among them are the well-known US photographer Tony Vaccaro, US Army veteran James K. Cullen and former Wehrmacht soldier Paul Verbeek. In addition, Hürtgen Forest residents tell of the legacy of the battle, including the threat posed by countless unexploded munitions left in the ground 75 years after the conflict in Europe ended.