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It's 1939. Norman, twenty years old, married, and father of a young child, struggles to make ends meet. To improve the familyÂ’s finances, he enlists in the army, figuring that when his six months' National Service ends he will be twenty-one and entitled to earn adult wages, a good plan until foiled by BritainÂ’s declaration of war against Nazi Germany. NormanÂ’s world is turned upside down. His six months of army life stretches to seven years, where he forges friendships that sustain him throughout the...
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Shadow Divers (The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II) (Reprint) (Paperback)
Description The perilous, obsessive world of the deep-sea diver is revealed in this true account of a six-year quest begun in 1991 to recover items from and discover the identity of a World War II U-boat sunk off the coast of New Jersey, a place where the history books said no such ship should be. As a team of divers explores the twisted wreck underwater and conducts painstaking research on land, lives and marriages will be sacrificed to get to the bottom of the mystery. SHADOW DIVERS was the nonfiction...
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Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II
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Features: DVD Features: Region 0 NTSC Keep Case Full Frame - 1.33 Audio: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo - English Chapters: 1. Saipan - The Inner Line of Defense 2. Tinian 3. Peleliu - A Costly Mistake 4. Iwo Jima - Countdown to Tokyo 5. Okinawa - The Final Battle
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I Was a Teenage Rifleman in World War II: A Novel of Politics, Adventure, and War
Reitan, a rifleman with the Third Infantry Division in World War II, has written a vivid story of four teenagers (one of them an American) who join the Resistance in France during World War II. The American becomes an underage rifleman with the Third Infantry Division and participates in the battles experienced by the author. Set in the grim reality of wartime France, this dark-edged novel presents interesting characters, fast-moving action, true-to-life instances of ground combat, and a touch of bittersweet...
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True Stories of the Second World War, True Adventure Stories Ser., Paul Dowswell, Book
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2 Nights in Cambria Suites Hotel. 2 Dinners and Daily Breakfasts. All Transfers To/From Your Hotel. All Entrance Fees and Local Taxes. Pre-Deployment 1940s Gala Night. Meet with World War II Veterans. Visit the Mighty Eighth Air Force Museum. Get Mission Briefings and Presentations. Prepare for Battle in a WWII Simulator. Hear Real Stories from Bomber Crews. Enjoy a Flight in a B-17 Flying Fortress!.
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Personal Journeys of World War II
The epic length (3 1/2 hour) Time Life release Personal Journeys of World War II stitches together recollections from U.S. soldiers who served in the titular global conflict, to create a tapestry-style oral history of the century-defining fight against Nazi domination of Europe and Japanese imperialist domination of the Pacific. As narrated by the late actor Glenn Ford - himself a WWII-era Navy enlistee - this program bridges reminiscences from those Americans who served at home and reminiscences...
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World War II created many heroes who have been the subjects of popular biographies and memoirs. But for every hero, there were hundreds who performed their patriotic duty in anonymity. Author and biographer Hotchner (Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir) clearly falls in the second category, though not for a lack of effort on his part. Like many of his generation, he aspired to serve his country in some grand manner, but, in his words, "Nobody on latrine duty ever got the Medal of Honor." Faulty depth...
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December 7, 1941 changed life forever. Uprooted from her Michigan home, a young girl moves with her parents, to a primitive desert near old Palm Springs in an effort to save her father’s life. Experience WWII through her eyes as she faces challenges that shape her personality and mystical moments that fill her heart with wonder – the first time she hears an angel voice - the strange tale of a reappearing Butterfield stagecoach in the canyon.
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Used - A German patrol wiggles through Russian lines to return with details of Soviet defenses. An expert Luftwaffe interrogator teases secret information from downed Allied airmen. Two spies steal ashore in Maine and make their way into New York City. Filled with episodes of intrigue and adventure, Hitler's Spies reveals the workings of German intelligence-the famed Abwehr, the dreaded SD, the codebreakers, the spies, and the intelligence gatherers of the Foreign Office-and explains its failure
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Papa Lemon and Mama Sarah are the neighborhood grandparents in a small town in Mississippi. With the use of Papa Lemon's magical train, the Little Wanderers can travel back in time in order to learn about the United States great diverse heritage. Join the Little Wanderers as they go back in time to the year 1945, a defining year in American History! They will learn first-hand about the war effort at home in the United States as they do their part to support the brave American soldiers overseas. The Little...
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World War II was one heck of a war, and it took one hell of a guy to help fight it. This collection of World War II movies features actors like Lloyd Bridges, Lee Van Cleef, Van Johnson, Dana Andrews and Randolph Scott in such films as A WALK IN THE SUN, GO FOR BROKE!, GUNG HO!, COMMANDOS, CASABLANCA EXPRESS, SKI TROOP ATTACK, THE STEEL CLAW, and BATTLE OF BLOOD ISLAND.
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World War II: An Interactive History Adventure
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Franklin Roosevelt and World War II VHS
Franklin Roosevelt and World War II. This program shows how FDR was already planning for US entry into the European conflict before his run for an unprecedented third term in 1940. He did this in the face of intense concerns from his advisors and the prevailing isolationist sentiment in a country that was just escaping the throes of the worst depression in U.S. history. Yet, it was FDR's courage in the face of popular opposition that Led to the US entry into WW 2 and ultimate victory for the allied...
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On December 7, 1941 Sarah Elizabeth Hakobian had just completed the first four months of her three year nursing course. As she studied for her anatomy exam, with her radio playing soft background music, the distinctive voice of John Cameron Swazie interrupted the program toannounce the horrific attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese. In a state of shock, Sarah put down her Grays Anatomy Text, and vowed that in 1944, she would enlist. From her Armenian immigrant grandparents, where democracy was...
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dr mabuse the gambler (DVD)
Includes both parts of Fritz Lang's Masterpiece! PART 1: Fritz Lang deftly evokes the soiled and shoddy world of crime-infested and inflation-racked post World War I Berlin in the first episode of his masterpiece, DR. MABUSE THE GAMBLER, PART I. Using special effects, extremely complex editing, fade outs, animation techniques and superimpositions, Lang took the lessons he learned in the supernatural films of German expressionism and applied them to this epic story of the underside of Germany. Employing...
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Gr 5-8-These titles describe the new military technologies used during each of the world wars. Ross briefly describes earlier levels of warfare and advances that were a result of the Industrial Revolution. Some of the technologies discussed are the telegraph; telephone; radio; barbed wire; advanced development of the machine gun, rifles, and artillery; and the invention of phosgene, mustard gas, and the tank. Naval warfare saw the advent of ships of steel, torpedoes, mines, the super dreadnought...
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Pearl Harbor was no surprise. In training exercises long before December 7, 1941, the Navy simulated Japanese attacks at Pearl Harbor, one as early as 1933. The designs and production facilities for most of the aircraft and ships used in World War II were in the works by 1939. Producing bomb-grade uranium required gargantuan amounts of electricity, amounts that could only be delivered by the hydro-electric facilities of the TVA and Columbia River Project, both finished by 1939. Finally, Hollywood...
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Overview Details What if Hitler had had the A-bomb? Why did Japan's submarine sneak attack on Pearl Harbor fail? Could the Kamikazes have turned the tide of the war in the Pacific? Now, these and other compelling stories about the secret weapons, ruthless tactics, and remarkable heroism of World War II can be told. Witness the daring attempts of undercover Norwegian resistance fighters to destroy the Nazis' atomic bomb program. Relive the surprise air and underwater attack on America's battleships...
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Warbirds of World War II
Title: Warbirds of World War II. UPC: 011301622136. Actor: Warbirds of Wwii. Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1. Publisher: Edi Video. Number of Item: 3. Package Dimisions: 7.6 x 0.65 x 1.8 inches. Package Weight: 0.65 pounds. Region Code: 1. Release Date: 2005-08-24. Running Time: 150 unknown-units. Format: Box set , Color , NTSC. Language: English, Original Language.
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To D-Day and Back: Adventures with the 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment and Life As A World War II - by Bob Bearden
In the predawn hours of D-Day, June 6, 1944, which would become immortalized as the Longest Day, Bob Bearden and his comrades in the 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment jumped into the inky skies over Normandy. Their mission: defend the west bank of the Merderet River against German counterattack. After long months of training they were finally taking the war to the Germans. Beardens time in combat proved shortlived, however, when he was captured on D+2, June 8.
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Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II
For John Chatterton and Richie Kohler, deep wreck diving was more than a sport. Testing themselves against treacherous currents, braving depths that induced hallucinatory effects, navigating through wreckage as perilous more >>
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When Aline Griffith was born in Pearl River, New York, in 1923, one might have guessed from her exceptional beauty that a career as an actress or a model would be in her future. Few would have imagined that twenty-one years later, she would find herself in Spain as a deep-cover OSS agent, infiltrating the highest levels of Spanish society; or that five years later still, she would marry a Spanish grandee and become one of the most watched, most admired, most fascinating women of international society...
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World War II: An Interactive History Adventure (You Choose Books)
World War II is a Capstone Press publication.
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