In January 1942, the order activating the 'US Air Forces in the British Isles' was announced. On 12th May, the first contingent of USAAF personnel arrived in England, the beginnings of what was to become the largest air force in the world. The British people had never seen anything like them. Michael Brandon (Dempsey and Makepeace) presents the story of the courageous young Americans who fought the war from the foreign fields of eastern England. And of the local populations who welcomed them, resented them, admired and loved them. "The American Invasion" provides a powerful record of a momentous period in American and British history.

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The life and career of the hailed Hollywood movie star and underappreciated genius inventor, Hedy La...

The greatest secret of the Second World War has remained a mystery for the last 80 years: a Jewish C...
During World War II, thousands of Japanese Americans were forced into relocation camps across the U....

Documentary which examines the reasons why Winston Churchill and the Conservative Party lost the Gen...

The child of Holocaust survivors, CNN Anchor Wolf Blitzer, takes viewers through the United States H...

The classic movie "The Great Escape" was based on a real life escape attempt during the second world...
Zakynthos is a Greek island on the Ionian Sea famed for its beauty. It also has the unique distincti...

The gruesome story of the Jewish ghettos during the Nazi occupation of Eastern Europe in the dark da...

June 6, 1944: The largest Allied operation of World War II began in Normandy, France. Yet, few know ...

The biggest trial of Nazi war crimes ever: 360 witnesses in 183 days of trial - a stunning and gripp...

Produced by the Army Pictorial Service, Signal Corps, with the cooperation of the Army Air Forces an...

In 1939, just finished the Spanish Civil War, Spanish republican photographer Francesc Boix escapes ...

Actual footage by the United States Signal Corps of the landing and attack on Arawe Beach, Cape Glou...