War Factories

  

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War FactoriesEnterprise: The story of the rise of the aircraft carrier and how it changed the tactics of sea warfare. [S]Sun, Nov 24, 11:00 amU&Yesterday60 mins
War FactoriesRolls-Royce: The Spitfire, the Hurricane, the Lancaster and Wellington Bombers, and the P51 Mustang were all powered by the Rolls-Royce Merlin engine. [S]Sun, Nov 24, 10:00 amU&Yesterday60 mins
War FactoriesThe First Giants: The First World War led to a number of astounding war factories, which laid the foundations and paved the way for modern factories of today. [S]Sun, Nov 24, 9:00 amU&Yesterday60 mins
War FactoriesColt & Kalashnikov: Long before Henry Ford, Samuel Colt is the true father of mass production. Ironically, it was the inadequacy of Soviet factory production which made the AK47 so effective. [S]Sun, Nov 24, 8:00 amU&Yesterday60 mins
War FactoriesDambuster Factory: How the Lancaster factory, one of the biggest buildings in Europe at the time, helped to create a truly war-winning weapon. [S]Sun, Nov 24, 7:10 amU&Yesterday50 mins
War FactoriesThe Kamikaze Bullet: Japan would create arguably the greatest fighter in WW2 - the Mitsubishi Zero. But their failed War Factories would ultimately reduce the Zero to a Kamikaze plane. [S]Sun, Nov 24, 6:10 amU&Yesterday60 mins
War FactoriesApocalypse Factories: The incredible story of the arms race to create America's nuclear arms factories. [S]Sun, Nov 17, 11:00 amU&Yesterday60 mins
War FactoriesThe People's Car: While America had Ford or Chrysler or Buick, Hitler also wanted a car that would transform his nation: the 'people's car'- a Volkswagen. [S]Sun, Nov 17, 10:00 amU&Yesterday60 mins
War FactoriesFiat And The Fascists: Find out how Fiat didn't just make cars: they made trains, they made planes, and like modern-day kingmakers, they made and broke governments too. [S]Sun, Nov 17, 9:00 amU&Yesterday60 mins
War FactoriesBattle For Black Gold: The story of the discovery and exploitation of the Baku Oilfields in the Russian Caucasus, which forced Stalin and Hitler to face-off in the battle of Stalingrad. [S]Sun, Nov 17, 8:00 amU&Yesterday60 mins