Navajo code talker who helped allies win Second World War dies aged 107
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German Navy Enigma machine systems were different to the Army, making them tougher to crack. In this video, James Grime discusses the differences and what Alan Turing achieved in breaking the code.
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Weird Weapons: Caged Buckler - Sword trapper
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Government without states (how to raise a tribal army in pre-Roman Europe, part II)
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Divers find remains of Finnish WWII plane that was shot down by Moscow with a US diplomat aboard
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In the 1600s Sweden was a great military power – why did they decline?
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"Sword breakers" were rare and we don't know much about them. How were they used and what were they really for? Two experienced rapier fencers experiment with one to discover more about them.
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How to build 300,000 airplanes in five years
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This American Civil War submarine vanished for 136 years
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Eastern Front of WW1 animated: 1914
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Free Companies: The age of mercenary companies
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B-17 Flying Fortress | Units of History
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The Museum of Science and Industry abruptly closed for a day last week to allow it to move “military artifacts from archival storage”
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In the years after World War II, neutral, peace-loving Sweden embarked on an ambitious plan – build its own atomic bomb
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A retrospective on the Baltic road to NATO
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World War II ‘rumor clinics’ helped America battle wild gossip
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Salvage of the century: The lost WWII gold of HMS Edinburgh
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Packages seized by the Royal Navy from a Faroese cargo ship bound for Denmark during the Napoleonic Wars opened – previously hidden away in the National Archives
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How Finland survived a 1,000,000+ Soviet invasion (1939-1940)
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Bellevue, WA police responded to a call from a US Air Force museum that said a man had offered to donate a Cold War-era missile stored in his late neighbor’s garage
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G36
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The insane machine that conquered Antarctica for the USSR - the Kharkovchanka
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Sweden's most popular tourist attraction, a 17th-century vessel that foundered minutes after launch, needs another financial rescue
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The first US Army Christmas: Washington and the Hessians
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WWII rescue buoys - Secret 'floating hotels' of the English Channel
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How did Denmark defeat Prussia in 1848?
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Rise of Napoleon's Old Guard (1789-1803) (part 1) | Units of History
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Sinking the Blücher: How an outdated fort stopped the WWII Invasion of Norway
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Wreckage likely belonging to a British submarine that sank during World War II was found off the coast of Norway
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Why the Early Modern Period is the most underrated era in European history
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How to debase the coinage in order to pay for wars
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Fritz Haber, the man who killed millions and saved billions
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A closer look at Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong, the most densely populated place that ever existed
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Gilleleje remembers one of the greatest collective acts of resistance of World War II – its role in the flight and escape of over 7,000 Danish Jews
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Norway remembers its wartime debt to Dumfries – special relationship being marked with the unveiling of a one-and-a-half tonne stone of friendship
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Soviet flying aircraft carriers were ingenious
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A wrong turn in fog off the California coast led to the largest peacetime disaster in American naval history
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True size of a Spartan army - The real source of its strength
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The Marian reforms weren't a thing
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Scenes from a fallen empire: Abandoned Russian bases dot Mongolia’s border
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Some historians say that the last US Revolutionary War battle was fought in India
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The campaign in the desert of North Africa in 1940-1943 mapped
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Eighty year anniversary of a speed record build of a WW2 bomber
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Cold War British RMP video shown to travellers before driving from West Germany to West Berlin through the Soviet East German corridor
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90th birthday interview, with transcript, of Daniel Ellsberg: recently deceased leaker and whistleblower re the Vietnam War
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How well suited is Sweden's Saab JAS 39 Gripen and their dispersal operations in NATO's air forces?
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Is a highlander shield bulletproof? Targe vs flintlock musket and pistol - Historical myth busting
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Top-secret atomic bunker has opened to the public in Denmark – built to withstand a nuclear attack, it's now an astonishing subterranean museum
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True kilts: Debunking the myths about highlanders and clan tartans
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The insane engineering of the M1 Abrams
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