Army Historian Answers World War II Questions | Tech Support | WIRED

Army historian Peter Knight joins WIRED to answer the internet’s burning questions about World War II. What is the timeline of World War II? Who, exactly, were the ‘Ghost Army’ in World War II? How effective were German U-Boats in WW2? What is the Blitzkrieg? And what was the ‘bat bomb’ project in WW2? Answers to these questions and many more await on WIRED Revolution Support. #WorldWar2 #WWII #WW2 00:00 - World War II Support 00:24 - The scale of war 00:54 - WW2 timeline 02:55 - Nazis doping? 04:04 - Historically accurate WW2 movies 05:25 - The WW2 Ghost Army 06:20 - Why Japan bombed Pearl Harbor 07:56 - December 11, 1941 08:09 - German U-Boats 09:07 - Cracking the Enigma Code 10:45 - The roots of WW2 11:35 - WW2: A global war 12:59 - The invasion of Normandy 14:07 - Hedgerow busting 15:22 - The Axis Powers vs Allies 16:36 - What is the Blitzkrieg? 17:30 - The WW2 Bat Bomb Project 18:36 - The significance of Iwo Jima 19:46 - The Night Witches 20:42 - The real reason Germany, Italy and Japan allied 21:36 - War without GPS 22:35 - How Churchill inspired a nation 23:37 - Downfall: The last days of Adolf Hitler 25:52 - The turning point of WW2 26:40 - Combat XP 27:41 - George S. Patton, the outspoken combat general 28:57 - Knowledge of concentration camps 30:39 - Why Eisenhower? 31:52 - Was America’s mainland bombed or attacked in WW2? 32:33 - The impact of the atomic bomb *Credits:* Director: Lisandro Perez-Rey Director of Photography: Charlie Jordan Editor: Paul Tael; Richard Trammell Expert: Dr. Peter Knight Line Producer: Jamie Rasmussen Associate Producer: Paul Gulyas; Brandon White Production Manager: Peter Brunette Production Coordinator: Rhyan Lark Casting Producer: Nick Sawyer Camera Operator: Paola Esquivel-Oliveros Sound Mixer: Sean Paulsen Post Production Supervisor: Christian Olguin Post Production Coordinator: Stella Shortino Supervising Editor: Eduardo Araujo Additional Editor: Sam DiVito Assistant Ed