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The Veteran Matters series continues with the stories of two army nurses, Joan who served in World War II and Karen who served in Iraq. Host Peter ...
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 27:05
- Purchases: 2
Host Peter Hilton welcomes veterans Andy and Michael, to this edition of Veteran Matters, to discuss their overall military experiences. Andy discu...
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 26:42
- Purchases: 2
On this edition of Veteran Matters, host Peter Hilton sits down with Steve, Buck, and Russ, veterans of World War II, Vietnam and Afghanistan. Stev...
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 24:41
- Purchases: 2
On the first episode of Veteran Matters, host Peter Hilton introduces the Veterans that will be on the next four episodes of Veteran Matters and th...
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 26:56
- Purchases: 2
By World War I, Sha'arawi had established a women's welfare society to raise money for poor women, had helped to found a union for educated Egyptia...
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:34
For nearly two years, using multiple false identities, Petit not only gathered and passed information, but assisted the underground resistance and ...
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:19
Led by Raskova, three groups of women warriors (most of them about twenty-years-old or so) racked up a total record of 30,000 combat missions dropp...
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 02:43
Kahn was flown into Nazi-occupied France where she became indispensable for her transmissions by wire from Paris.
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 02:18
During WWII Parsons dismissed all her servants and turned her house into a hiding place for downed British and American airmen.
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 02:22
When Adolph Hitler sent his troops into Russia in 1941, Litvyak lied about her flying experience and signed up to serve her country.
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 02:04
Jennie Hodgers took the name Albert Cashier, put on a pair of pants and joined the Union army.
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 02:01
Jane Goodwin Austin became known as “Calamity Jane,” with the Mexican government placing a $1000 bounty on her head.
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 01:46
She was a small, dark-haired Polish Catholic who somehow managed to save 2500 Jewish children from the Nazis. How? Here's the tale.
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- Added: Sep 12, 2012
- Length: 03:00
The final segment describes the fall of Bataan and those who were able to escape to Corregidor Island. Interviews are with: Art Campbell, Ralph Lev...
Bought by KUER
- Added: Oct 15, 2011
- Length: 06:38
- Purchases: 1
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This segment goes into detail about how the food situation became so bad in the Philippines that the troops had to b...
Bought by KUER
- Added: Oct 15, 2011
- Length: 05:27
- Purchases: 1
Part one of a two-hour remembrance for Memorial Day... Since the ending of the Civil War in 1865, America has lost over 700,000 soldiers. For Memor...
Bought by KTXK
- Added: Apr 26, 2011
- Length: 44:32
- Purchases: 1
Remembering both the fallen and the survivors.
Bought by WVIA, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), and KHNS
- Added: Nov 05, 2010
- Length: 53:45
- Purchases: 4
In the evening of April 6th 1994 the plane of the Rwandan president was shot down. This sparked the genocide that nearly killed one million people
- Added: Apr 05, 2010
- Length: 14:39
Short documentary collage of voices recorded in St. Louis during World War II on a Wilcox-Gay Recordio. The Greatest Generation carries on, as reme...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: May 18, 2009
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
During WWII about 11.000 German immigrants living in the US were interned. Still today, they are waiting for a recognition of this injustice.
- Added: Apr 17, 2009
- Length: 29:52
Chris Goldstein interviews Catholic Worker James Douglass on his book JFK and the Unspeakable. The book reveals a President at odds with the milita...
- Added: Jan 17, 2009
- Length: 33:27
A Welsh-American remembers World War One with uncommon candor, poignancy, and even humor.
- Added: Nov 11, 2008
- Length: 04:00
A Welsh-American remembers World War One with uncommon candor, poignancy, and even humor.
- Added: Nov 11, 2008
- Length: 04:00
A Welsh-American remembers World War One with uncommon candor, poignancy, and even humor.
- Added: Nov 11, 2008
- Length: 04:00
A Welsh-American remembers World War One with uncommon candor, poignancy, and even humor.
- Added: Nov 11, 2008
- Length: 04:00
