United States Army Air Forces

In its expansion during World War II, the AAF became the world's most powerful air force. From the Air Corps of 1939, with 20,000 men and 2,400 planes, to the nearly autonomous AAF of 1944, with almost 2.4 million personnel and 80,000 aircraft, was a remarkable expansion.

When Winston Churchill delivered his famous ‘Iron Curtain’ speech in 1946, he mentioned two words now engrained in Anglo-American terminology - ‘special relationship’. Nowhere is the ‘special relationship’ more evident than in the scores of airfields used by the United States Army Air Forces during the Second World War. Today, just a handful remain in active service. Yet they continue to bind the United Kingdom and United States together. US Air Force Bases in the UK examines the history and continuing use of modern-day British airfields by the US Air Force. It also chronicles the many others that survived the Second World War, but not the passage of time. While most have been reclaimed by agriculture, one thing that still endures is the ‘special relationship’. This book retraces its concrete paths.

Mackie and Jamie have worked in the History of the aviation industry for over thirty years and is responsible for more keeping the truth history alive the are leading historian’s, writer’s and broadcaster’s responsible for a number of best-selling histories of The Battle of Britain and Dam Busters and the forgotten bases they are still working on loads and loads more and will not stop till every story is told and the truth come to light .

Millions of people that say they are leading are jumping onto topic they do not have a clue about the worst for this is Dan Snow who make’s up storys and does not go out and do the real research . Jamie and Mackie have family tied to the armed forces that goes back 300+ years and have spent years and years looking into the history and are here to keep the history alive for years and years to come if they do not know something or think something they have read that is wrong you will be told with in the show.

Dan Snow is regularly promoted by the BBC as an historian despite the fact that he has no PhD, no background in academic history and has only an undergraduate degree in the discipline. Of course his media profile has nothing to do with the fact that both his parents and his uncle are television presenters.

World of Military Stars and Stripes is a new broadcast of a series of programmes

Jamie and Mackie relives the nail-biting countdown to the most daring of wartime history of the American in the UK

When Winston Churchill delivered his famous ‘Iron Curtain’ speech in 1946, he mentioned two words now engrained in Anglo-American terminology - ‘special relationship’. Nowhere is the ‘special relationship’ more evident than in the scores of airfields used by the United States Army Air Forces during the Second World War. Today, just a handful remain in active service. Yet they continue to bind the United Kingdom and United States together. US Air Force Bases in the UK examines the history and continuing use of modern-day British airfields by the US Air Force. It also chronicles the many others that survived the Second World War, but not the passage of time. While most have been reclaimed by agriculture, one thing that still endures is the ‘special relationship’. This set of programmes retraces its concrete paths.

The programmes will also take a look at the b17 flying fortress and Thunderbird as well as the Blue angels that have all been seen at Air shows across the UK as well as the Forgotten Squadrons and airfields and how the Americans helped lead the UK to Normandy.

This set of shows will be made into Episode's And is copyrighted.

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Our Broadcasts can be found on lounges tv but we will also list all the Episode's links here if you press the name of the show the link to the video will open. All the show are priced at £10 each to watch If you would like to watch all the show in the set please send me a mesaage and i can sort you them out for a cheaper price Press here to send me a message

Episode 1 - The Blue Angels: Soaring Through History

Episode 2 - The Thunderbirds: USAF's Sky Warriors

Episode 3 - The United States Department of the Air Force Police (DAF Police)

Episode 4 - The Memphis Belle is a Boeing B-17F Flying Fortress

Episode 5 - Sally B is the name of an airworthy 1945-built Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress

Episode 6 - Royal Air Force Menwith Hill - 421st Air Base Squadron

Episode 7 - RAF Fylingdales We are watching

Episode 8 - What made the P-51 Mustang so special (Find out watch this)

Episode 9 - RAF Ringway No. 1 Parachute

Episode 10- RAF Elvington - World War 2 between 1939 and 1942 and between 1952 and 1958 by the American Air Force as a Strategic

Episode 11- Raf Scampton as a station for American bomber aircraft from July 1948 until January 1949. The base reverted back to RAF

Episode 12- "We Can Do It," "Loose Lips Sink Ships," and "I Want You" the history of the music that helped win the war