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Host Peter Hilton welcomes to the program Bill. Bill is a veteran of the Korean War, and served at the front line of many operations in Korea. They...
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 27:10
- Purchases: 2
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
Too young for induction into the army, Richard works at Best & Co. and next with Fred Waring and His Pennsylvanians in the shipping department. Upo...
- Added: Feb 09, 2013
- Length: 30:34
The Rwandan genocide of 1994 still haunts an entire country
- Added: Jan 27, 2013
- Length: 20:15
A weekend with the West Virginia Re-enactors Association, as they re-create the Battle of Droop Mountain.
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jan 14, 2013
- Length: 06:04
- Purchases: 1
In this installment, the topic is the notorious Wannsee Conference.
- Added: Dec 30, 2012
- Length: 05:53
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
As part of a series marking Armistice Day, the anniversary of the end of the First World War, reporter, Alison Turner, asked expat actors living in...
- Added: Nov 01, 2012
- Length: 06:49
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
Indians don’t just happen to be good at math and science. The effects and fears of the Cold War, and the united leadership of India and the United ...
- Added: Sep 26, 2012
- Length: 29:42
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
Ancient Greek and post-modern verse.
- Added: Jul 02, 2012
- Length: 02:34
- Purchases: 2
Marks was a British code maker in World War II. While still in his early twenties, in charge of wireless communication codes to espionage agents an...
- Added: Jan 04, 2012
- Length: 04:00
