Military Technology
American Experience: Victory in the Pacific
Watch Target Tokyo, a U.S. army film about the B-29 bomber.
- Online Poll
- Would you have advised President Truman to use the atomic bomb?
- NOVA: Sole Survivor
- Read an interview with a German U-boat radio operator.
- American Experience: Fly Girls
- Watch video of a B-29 bomber taking flight.
- Secrets of the Dead: Dogfight Over Guadalcanal
- Learn about the planes flown during this historic aviation showdown.
- NOVA: Decoding Nazi Secrets
- Learn about the Enigma, the famous German code machine.
For the Classroom
- NOVA: Teacher's Guide
- Investigate weight and buoyant force as applied to submarines (grades middle/high school).
- Secrets of the Dead: Rocket Science
- Explore many of the strategic and technological factors that eventually determined the outcome of the war.
- Secrets of the Dead: Bombing Nazi Dams
- Learn about a secret Allied mission to destroy Nazi dams using a new "bouncing" bomb.
- Secrets of the Dead: Bridge on the River Kwai
- Learn about construction of the Thai-Burma Railway and examine what it takes to design and build a bridge (middle school).
- Secrets of the Dead: Hunt for Nazi Scientists
- Discover WWII's influence on the development of rocket science (middle/high school).
