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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
Segment Three Background Info:
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
- Added: Jul 14, 2011
- Length: 03:41
Film maker MT Silvia's mother, Pauline Silvia, was a US Navy biologist conducting research on the effects of radiation on mice and dogs from 1952 t...
- Added: May 05, 2011
- Length: 30:02
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
Photojournalist and war correspondent Tim Hetherington was killed wednesday, April 20, 2011 along with two other journalists while covering the fig...
- Added: Apr 22, 2011
- Length: 14:01
When he finally went home to Viet Nam, he began using a name from an I.D. card he had purchased: Ho Chi Minh ... which means "bringer of light." An...
- Added: Dec 09, 2010
- Length: 03:00
A fictional account of the Japanese surrender aboard the USS Missouri.
- Added: Nov 22, 2010
- Length: 46:57
A poignant tale of a returning veteran who witnessed December 7, 1941.
- Added: Nov 16, 2010
- Length: 47:48
Commemorating Veteran's Day with this edition of Patterns in Music—a fitting musical tribute to those who served.
- Added: Nov 08, 2010
- Length: 01:40:15
- Purchases: 2
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
A rare generational discussion on the Vietnam War
- Added: Aug 08, 2010
- Length: 28:00
Peace Advocacy discussed from generational perspectives
- Added: May 31, 2010
- Length: 29:00
Three veterans from three wars talk about resuming their normal lives after experiencing combat.
- Added: May 18, 2010
- Length: 14:26
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
President Obama defended his vow to close Guantanamo prison in the marble rotunda of the National Archives on Thursday May 21st, 2009.
- Added: May 21, 2009
- Length: 48:05
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
