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Littlefield WW2 Tank Collection

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British 17-pounder (77mm) anti-tank gun British Vickers Mark V light tank German 88mm FlaK 36 anti-aircraft/anti-tank gun German BMW R75 German FlaK 38 20mm anti-aircraft gun German Hetzer tank destroyer with 75mm gun German Kubelwagen American M3 Grant - 75mm HE and 37mm AP American M3 Grant direct front American M3 half-track American M4 Sherman Jumbo American M4 Sherman with 75mm gun American M5 Stuart with 37mm gun American M18 Hellcat with 76mm gun American M26 Pershing with 90mm gun American M29 Weasel British Matilda Mark II with 2-pounder (40mm) gun German Nebelwerfer 150mm rocket launcher German PaK 36 37mm anti-tank gun with shaped-charge projectile German PaK 40 75mm anti-tank gun German Panther A with 75mm gun German Panzer I -  The "G" on the right front stands for "Guderian" and was captured outside Moscow late in 1941 German Pa...

Various Warbirds

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DOCUMENTARY - LOCKHEED P-38: LIGHTNING STRIKES!

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The Lockheed P-38 Lightning is a World War II-era American piston-engined fighter aircraft. Developed for the United States Army Air Corps, the P-38 had distinctive twin booms and a central nacelle containing the cockpit and armament. Allied propaganda claimed it had been nicknamed the fork-tailed devil (German: der Gabelschwanz-Teufel) by the Luftwaffe and "two planes, one pilot" by the Japanese. Along with its use as a general fighter, the P-38 was utilized in various aerial combat roles including as a highly effective fighter-bomber, a night fighter, and as a long-range escort fighter when equipped with drop tanks. The P-38 was also used as a bomber-pathfinder, guiding streams of medium and heavy bombers; or even other P-38s, equipped with bombs, to their targets. Used in the aerial reconnaissance role, the P-38 would account for 90 percent of the aerial film captured over Europe. The P-38 was used most successfully in the Pacific Theater of Operations and the China-Burm...

BOEING B-17 FLYING FORTRESS DOCUMENTARY!

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The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress is a four-engined heavy bomber developed in the 1930s for the United States Army Air Corps (USAAC). Competing against Douglas and Martin for a contract to build 200 bombers, the Boeing entry (prototype Model 299/XB-17) outperformed both competitors and exceeded the Air Corps' performance specifications.

The Man Behind the Stuka (and the A-10 Warthog)

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Before: A pissed-off American After: Tons of smoked Japanese Of all the weapons of the Second World War, the dive bomber is among the most iconic and significant of them. The Japanese used them to great effect in the attack on Pearl Harbor and their subsequent more-or-less simultaneous offensives elsewhere in Asia, and the U.S. Navy used them to even greater effect during the Battle of Midway, where dive bombers sunk four Japanese aircraft carriers and essentially turned the tide of the war in the Pacific.  On their way to war However, it was a trio of a certain type of dive bomber that took off in the early morning hours of September 1, 1939 with the mission of severing the wires of explosive charges attached to the Dirschau bridge over the Vistula River that the dive bomber would achieve a singularly unique infamy. The Red Baron in black-and-white Manfred Freiherr von Richtofen, who was an actual aristocrat (Freiherr roughly translat...