How to Fly the A-20 Havoc video covers the Douglas A-20 Havoc and A-26 Invader attack bombers of World War II. Included are two training films, two films: Flak!, Mission to Rabaul, and the A-26 Invader pilot's manual. The DVD is in NTSC format.

Film #1 - Flying the A-20 Bomber. Flown as 'the Boston' by the Brits on daring hedge hopping low level 'ramrod' raids over the Continent and as the 'Havoc' by the US Army Air Force skimming the jungles of SE Asia, this magnificent attack bomber is one of the most underappreciated aircraft of World War II. In B+W with a run time of about 20 minutes.

Film #2 - A-26 Flying Tips. World War II, Korea, Indochina, the Bay of Pigs, Laos, Vietnam, the Congo, South America, fire fighting in the Pacific Northwest -- this fantastic aircraft has seen it all! The most advanced attack plane of World War II. In B+W with a run time of about 16 minutes.

Film #3 - FLAK is a fascinating World War II training film for pilots on the theory and practice of evading antiaircraft fire. The specifications, capabilities, and targeting methods of a variety of German and Japanese AAA pieces are discussed as well as both high and low altitude evasion tactics . Well illustrated with charts, animations, and combat film. In B+W with a run time of about 17 minutes.

Film #4 - Mission to Rabaul. The island of Rabaul, located in the southwest Pacific, northeast of the large island of New Guinea, was one of the two strategic lynch pins for the Japanese. (The other was the naval base at Truk.) From Rabaul, the Japanese could project force throughout the region, support their forces in New Guinea, and block the advance up the Solomons. They poured tens of thousands of troops and hundreds of airplanes, and thousands of tons of supplies and material on to Rabaul to make it a mighty fortress. Douglas MacArthur's brilliant solution to the Rabaul conundrum was to isolate it, slowly starve it, and bypass it, rather than directly assault it. One of the key steps in this strategy was to seize airfields in northern New Guinea to base Army P-38 fighters that could escort bombers on long range missions against the heavily defended Japanese stronghold. By the end of the War, once mighty Rabaul was cut off and reduced to a virtual prison for the starving Japanese. In B+W with a run time of about 55 minutes.

A 143-page Douglas A-26 Invader pilot's manual is included on the DVD. It is in .pdf file format with detailed photos, systems diagrams, performance charts, procedures & more. The manual can be accessed on a computer equipped with a DVD drive.

The DVD is in NTSC format and is packaged in a plain clear plastic C-Shell DVD case without paper graphics.