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Host Peter Hilton explores how spirituality may have affected the veteran's time in service, and what their experiences were like when they encount...
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 27:55
- Purchases: 2
Veteran Matters continues with part 2 of this series. Host Peter Hilton introduces a new group of veterans, and we learn what roles animals may or ...
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 27:43
- Purchases: 2
On this edition of Veteran Matters, host Peter Hilton welcomes to the program Norm, a veteran of World War II who served on the U.S.S. Bunker Hill ...
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 28:23
- Purchases: 2
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
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
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
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
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
In March 2008, hundreds of Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans gathered for "Winter Soldier": to talk about what they saw and did in combat, and diff...
Bought by KGOU
- Added: Jun 20, 2008
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
