Tanks! The Fall of France
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Documentary (2004)
Narrator: Mike Mundell
The Fall of France traces the role of the armoured forces on both sides in the dramatic battles which led to the great German victory in 1940. Featuring rare archived footage, stunning 3D animation and a detailed examination of the machines by David Fletcher of the Royal Armed Corps Tank Museum at Bovington, and writer and historian Bob Carruthers. The Fall of France is a powerful portrait of a turning point in military history.
Episode 07 Fall of France
Junkers Ju 87 B Stuka
Junkers Ju 86D-1
Junkers Ju 86 showing the Junkers doppelflügel wing control surfaces. With the short wingspan and the shape of diesel engines (Junkers Jumo 205 instead the usual radials seen on most airframes) and the ventral gondola, it's a Ju 86D-1 (other diesel variants are the C-1 airliner or the P and R high-altitude bomber and photo reconnaissance version -these last two with a 50% increase in wingspan-).
Heinkel He 111
Junkers Ju 87 B Stuka
Episode 08 Blitzkrieg
(to be continued)
Junkers Ju 87 Stuka
Loading bomb under the port wing.
Henschel Hs 126
Two Hs 126 with an unidentified third aircraft (low wing aircraft fited with a radial and fixed undercarriage).
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