Great Fighting Machines Of WWII (2001) Rating: Starring: Great Fighting Machines of Wwi Director: Category: Documentary, Special Interest Studio: Questar Subtitles: [None] Length: 360 mins     Powerful, fascinating 6-hour DVD three-pack! Allied & Axis Fighters: Journey through the dramatic world inhabited by fighter planes and pilots during World War II.Follow Supermarine Spitfires and Hawker Hurricanes as they scramble at air bases to defend the skies of beleaguered England.Watch the amazing aerobatics of the P-38 Lightning, which the German aviators called "Fork-Tailed Devil." See the famed P-47 Thunderbolts and P-51 Mustangs in action as they escort Allied bombers, and fight against deadly Me-109 Messerschmitts and Focke-Wulf 190s.This program also covers fighters used by the Soviet Union, as well as the infamous Japanese "Zero," which roamed Pacific skies from Guadalcanal to Tokyo.Other fighters include the jet-powered Gloucester Meteor, the P-61 "Black Widow" night fighter, and the rocket-propelled ME-163 Komet. Allied & Axis Bombers: Bombers: these heavy-duty war birds brought death and destruction to the enemy with lethal showers of bombs.Fly with the U.S. B-17 Flying Fortress, the British Lancaster and Soviet Tupolev bombers as they drop devastating payloads over German territory. Then experience the enemy side with missions in Heinkel, Dornier and Junkers bombers as they rain explosives down upon London, Manchester and other British cities.See Japanese "Betty" bombers and U.S. B-29s in action over the Pacific.Additional bombers covered in this program include the B-24 Liberator, B-25 Mitchell, B-26 Marauder, and the Focke-Wulf "Condor." Bombers played a major role throughout World War II: the Battle of Britain, daylight bombing missions over Europe, fire-bombing campaigns over Germany and Japan, and the dropping of atomic bombs upon Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Allied & Axis Tanks: Armored divisions with hundreds of Panzer tanks were the heart of Hitler's "blitzkrieg" tactics that propelled his armies across Europe with startling speed.In the spring of 1940, the armies of France, Belgium and Holland had to surrender in the face of a German military juggernaut.The likes of it had never been experienced in the history of warfare, and Panzer divisions were at the heart of his new "lightning warfare." Experience the Allied response to the Nazi onslaught with its own heavy-duty armor: U.S. Sherman and Pershing tanks, British Churchill and Crusader tanks, Soviet T-26 and T-34 tanks - all moving steadily on the road to Berlin and making a critical contribution to the final defeat of the Third Reich.Armor made a strong showing in the Pacific fight as well, with Japanese "Type 95" Tanks slugging it out against U.S. Shermans. Watch the greatest tank battle in history take place between German Panzers and Soviet Armor on the plains of Kursk.See German Tiger tanks spearhead Hitler's last, desperate offensive in the winter of 1944 at the Battle of the Bulge.Then watch as Allied armor stops the Germans dead in their tank tracks.