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Wafa Idriss was both a nurse with the Red Crescent and an anti-Israeli occupation activist. What motivated the 28-year-old to make her mark on history not as a healer, but as a martyr and a murderer? This program uses her story as a window into the simmering standoff that exists in the embattled West Bank. Through interviews, Wafa's mother and others who knew her express their surprise and dismay at her actions, while a Jewish victim's widow and al...
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This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. The King and Queen of England and Princess Elizabeth christen an airplane at a U.S. airfield in England and are greeted by General Doolittle. 2. The processing of plasma and penicillin; troops in Normandy receive medical care. 3. Naval guns bombard Cherbourg; the 8th and 9th Air Forces bomb communication lines; British troops take Caen; General Montgomery.
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This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. U.S. bombers take off and land at an Australian air base. 2. Mrs. Roosevelt attends a ceremony honoring nurses who served in the Pacific; women operating a lumber mill, testing tanks, and making guns. 3. Iron ore is dug, loaded, and delivered to mills. 4. The National Professional tennis championship. 5. A test flight of a Navy flying boat. 6. Canadian submarine chasers drop charges....
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This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. Japanese oil fields in Borneo and a German airfield are bombed. 2. General Lucian K. Truscott presents decorations to the 92nd Infantry Division, 5th Army. 3. General Albert Wedemeyer as the new Commander of Army Forces in China; Ambassador Hurley presents his papers to Chiang Kai-shek. 4. Boxing matches between American, English, and French soldiers in Rome. 5. Diagrams and the manufacture...
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This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. General Eaker supervises the preparation of flying fortresses for a bombing mission. 2. A mailman is awarded an "M" award for home manufacturing of steering gear parts for cargo vessels. 3. U.S. troops land unopposed in the Aleutian Islands. 4. President Roosevelt sees tanks manufactured and tested at the Chrysler Tank Arsenal in Detroit, tours the Ford bomber plant with Henry Ford...
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This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. Allied planes bomb Abbeville and Rennes, France. 2. Generals Eisenhower, Patton, and Montgomery confer in the field; Italian POWs. 3. College women plant potatoes in Maine. 4. General Chennault receives gifts from the people of China. 5. Biggest motor bus carries 250 soldiers. 6. Amphibious assault on Munda in the Solomons.
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This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. General George Brett decorates Chilean soldiers and attends a military show. 2. The funeral of Al Smith, with flashbacks from his life. 3. A victory garden produces watermelons for soldiers in the Pacific. 4. Princess Martha visits the Norwegian Naval Anti-Submarine School in New York. 5. British planes bomb Le Havre and Calais.
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"The murder of a small-time drug dealer snowballs into the most complex case ever faced by Joe Gunther and his VBI team. It is said a bright and clear bomber's moon is the best asset to finding one's target. But beware what you wish for: What you can see at night can also see you. Often with dire consequences. Bomber's Moon is Archer Mayor's latest entry in the Joe Gunther series and it may just be his best yet. Two young women form the heart of this...
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Of all the celebrities who served their country during World War II -and they were legion -Jimmy Stewart was unique. On December 7th, when the attack on Pearl Harbor woke so many others to the reality of war, Stewart was already in uniform - as a private on guard duty south of San Francisco at the Army Air Corps Moffet Field. Seeing war on the horizon, Jimmy Stewart, at the height of his fame after Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and his Oscar-winning
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Discusses the military use of aircraft to drop bombs and describes the development of particular kinds of bombers.
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This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. 175 Liberator bombers based in Libya bomb Ploesti; General Lewis Brereton. 2. Churchill and family are greeted in Quebec by Mackenzie King. 3. General Stilwell presents the Legion of Merit to Chiang Kai-shek. 4. 15 members of one family who work at the Kaiser Ship Yards. 5. Convalescing sailors sightsee in the Yosemite Valley. 6. General Patton is welcomed in Sicily; army engineers...
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This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. Bombers strike Berlin. 2. The Gripsholm arrives in New York with soldiers freed from German prison camps. 3. General Blamey reviews veterans in Sydney. 4. General William Shedd and Eleanor Roosevelt inspect garrisons in Puerto Rico; Mrs. MacArthur christens the Australian destroyer Bataan. 5. German prisoners in the U.S. shovel snow and work in a shoe shop. 6. Italian refugees are...