Announcing a new ‘history channel’
Reading about Guadalcanal is good. Seeing the battlefield is better.
In just a few days, we will launch a new historical video series to accompany the World War II Chronicle, which will give you a glimpse into the past that you won’t find anywhere else. While the Chronicle drills down into fascinating elements of the war that many people have never considered, the video series (as yet unnamed) will let you see what we are writing about in 3D.
Future shows may feature battlegrounds, letting you see Guadalcanal’s Edson Ridge or the rugged terrain at Monte Cassino; highlight particular warbirds, like the Curtiss P-40; or explore old and abandoned airfields and places like “Last Stop, USA,” where hundreds of thousands of soldiers shipped out for combat in Europe.
Regarding the above trial video, we recently wrote about Ted Williams’s famous baseball team when from his “ground school” days in Chapel Hill, N.C. As I learn how to record flight simulator footage, edit, and upload to the internet — you can see a plane similar to the one flown by Williams from the base he flew it out of. Grissom Air Reserve Base does looks different today than Bunker Hill Naval Air Station did in 1942, but it’s the same place. There is no narrative, but again, learning the technical aspects of recording and uploading videos was the point, and we will link to our video channel on Rumble as soon as we have everything ready.
The trial video uses Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020), but we may switch to Lockheed Martin’s Prepar3d depending on what aircraft we will use. Not that it’s necessarily relevant to the series, but for those of you who are flight sim enthusiasts we will typically fly with real-world weather conditions and always on full realism. In our trial, I was familiarizing myself with the Cub — which I had never flown before — but thanks to high winds (halfway through the video you’ll notice the tiny plane is actually flying sideways) I was able to land it like a helicopter.
Stay tuned for more!