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Growing up next door to Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber, for 16 years, the author, with the innocence of her youth robbed, seeks to reconcile her lived experience with the evil that lived in plain sight by probing his personal history, his writings, and his secret coded crime journals.
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This film documents the 15th Air Force's Ploesti Campaign from March to August 1944. Footage includes General Twining's staff meetings; the ineffective first attack on Ploesti oil refineries; the successful second attack; and prisoners of war rescued during Operation Reunion. Note: This historical recording may contain variations in audio and video quality based on the limitations of the original source material.
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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. 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. The aircraft carriers Saratoga and Bunker Hill are partially disabled by Japanese kamikaze planes. 2. General Eisenhower reviews a parade in Abilene, Kansas. 3. President Truman receives an honorary degree from the University of Kansas City and speaks on the United Nations; President Truman arrives at the U.S. Capitol with the United Nations Charter.
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"In 1942, as Japan dominates the Pacific Theater, small contingents of US Army Airmen make their way to the embattled Allied airbase on Papua, New Guinea. When pilot Captain Jay Zeamer and bombardier Sergeant Joseph Raymond Sarnoski can't convince superiors to give Zeamer his own plane, they recruit a crew and rebuild a B-17 with junkyard parts. In June 1943, they fly Old 666 on a 1200-mile suicide mission into the teeth of the Japanese Empire, engage...
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This film documents the Eighth Bomber Command's double mission to bomb the Messerschmitt factory at Regensburg and ball bearing plants at Schweinfurt on August 17, 1943. View footage of B-17 squadrons engaging Luftwaffe fighters, hitting their target, and returning to air fields in England. Note: This historical recording may contain variations in audio and video quality based on the limitations of the original source material.
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"Masters of the Air is the story of the American bomber boys in World War II who brought the war to Hitler's doorstep. With the narrative power of fiction, Donald Miller takes readers on a harrowing ride through the fire-filled skies over Berlin, Hanover, and Dresden and describes the terrible cost of bombing for the German people."--Jacket.
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"Champion. Survivor. Hero. Legend. Completed just two days before Louis Zamperini's death at age 97, Don't Give Up, Don't Give In shares a lifetime of wisdom, insight, and humor from one of America's most inspiring lives. Zamperini's story has touched millions through Laura Hillenbrand's biography Unbroken, soon to be a major motion picture directed by Angelina Jolie. Now, in his own words, Louis Zamperini reveals, with warmth and great charm, the...
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"The incredible true story of John "Lucky" Luckadoo, who survived 25 missions as a B-17 Flying Fortress pilot in WWII. When Second Lieutenant John "Lucky" Luckadoo-a wide-eyed 21-year-old assigned to the Eighth Air Force's 100th Bomb Group-arrived in England, "Axis Sally," an American broadcaster employed by Nazi Germany to disseminate propaganda during World War II, welcomed his squadron by name. "This isn't your war," she told them. "You don't have...
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This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. A B-29 airplane lands in Washington, D.C., and General Arnold decorates the crew. 2. Disabled veterans are trained as watchmakers in a Bulova Watch Corporation School in New York City. 3. Japanese aliens board ships at Seattle, Washington. 4. Pre-Christmas parades are held in New York City and Hollywood; Jack Benny. 5. The daily routine of captured German generals in a U.S. prison...
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"Shortly before Christmas in 1943, five Army aviators left Alaska's Ladd Field on a test flight. Only one ever returned: Leon Crane, a city kid from Philadelphia with little more than a parachute on his back when he bailed from his B-24 Liberator before it crashed into the Arctic. Alone in subzero temperatures, Crane managed to stay alive in the dead of the Yukon winter for nearly twelve weeks and, amazingly, walked out of the ordeal intact. 81 Days...
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This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. Generals O'Donnell and LeMay land at the Chicago airport and later at Washington, D.C. 2. Hurricane devastation in Florida. 3. President Truman presents the Distinguished Service Cross to Secretary of War Stimson; Sergeant Joe Louis receives the Legion of Merit at Fort Hamilton, New York; Madame Chiang Kai-shek lands at Chungking and is greeted by the Generalissimo; British soldiers...
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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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This episode of the Air Force Story covers the Soviet attempt to blockade West Berlin; the largest peacetime airlift by Western powers; and the success of the B-36, first intercontinental bomber. Note: this historical recording may contain variations in audio and visual quality based on the variations of the original source material.