The fifth episode of the series concludes the war in Europe. Veterans recount their memories of VE Day and POW Lou Fowler concludes the story of his harrowing escape from a German prison camp. The episode then returns to the Pacific, beginning with the attack on Pearl Harbor and continuing to the Japanese attack on the Philippines. Clemson University is also featured. Produced by SCETV and The State Newspaper.
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German soldiers were surrendering so fast, they just would surrender a whole unit and we couldn't handle them all. The British Broadcasting Company (BBC) was announcing "Today in Europe, the war is...
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"The American soldiers arrived, and the tanks came in and ran over those big, high fences like they were matchboxes." Veterans provide their remembrances of the end of the war in Europe and the...
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Japan needed resources and could only get them from other countries. The United States continued to try to prevent this. Japan sent an envoy to try to negotiate some sort of compromise, but the...
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Veterans share their recollections of the day that Pearl Harbor was attacked. They were at war again.
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Veterans and family members recall the aftermath of the attack on Pearl Harbor in detail.
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Veterans provide their recollections on Clemson, where the service flag that flew in the chapel showed more men serving as officers in the U.S. Army from Clemson than from any other school in the...
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This segment focuses on how the Japanese took control of the Pacific waters. The Philippines had been promised their independence. Within hours after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese turned...
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The damage done to the American ships at Pearl Harbor is discussed. The devastation was hard to accept. The one thing the Japanese had missed was the tank farm where all of the fuel was stored. It was...