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Standard 5.3.CX

5.3.CX Contextualize the technological and geographic influence on military strategies in the Pacific and European theaters of war of World War II.

Grade(s): 5

Subject(s): Social Studies

Year: 2019

The Carrier Will Lead | USS Yorktown

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Grades: 5 8 9 10

USS Yorktown (CV-10) was an Essex-class aircraft carrier that served with the US Navy in World War II and the Vietnam War. World War II’s famous “Fighting Lady” would participate significantly in the...

Ernest Henderson And Tuskegee | South Carolina's Greatest Generation

Episode 5

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Grades: 5 8 9 10 11 12

Ernest Henderson, a Tuskegee Airman, discusses Eleanore Roosevelt's visit to the airfield and her interest in flying in one of their airplanes, and so she did. When she got back to Washington, she...

A New Front, Part 5

Episode 5

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Grades: 3 4 5

Also known as the Battle of Anzio, Operation Shingle was an allied amphibious campaign, under command of Lieutenant General Mark W. Clark, and Major General John P. Lucas. S.C. veterans remember the...

A Time to Fight, Part 7

Episode 7

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Grades: 5 8 9 10 11 12

The Tuskegee Airmen were African-American pilots during WWII. Before the war, the Army thought African-Americans could only be used as laborers. African-Americans faced all sorts of prejudice and...

The Way Home, Part 3

Episode 3

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

Okinawa was the final Japanese island before the mainland. It would be the largest amphibious invasion in history. The Americans had to control the air and the water. The orders came that the...

The Way Home, Part 4

Episode 4

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

Our veterans discuss the era in which the atomic bomb was used on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and their recollections of this time..

The Way Home, Part 2

Episode 2

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

With its navy destroyed, the Japanese have come to recognize that their last line of defense is through suicide attacks on American ships. From the American ships, the kamikazes looked like a swarm of...

The Island War, Part 6

Episode 6

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Grades: 3 4 5 9 10 11 12

One of our veterans recalls the bombing of Iwo Jima, and going below to his quarters to get a little sleep. He opened his Bible and it fell open to the 91st Psalm, which he reads. Our veterans discuss...

The Island War, Part 1

Episode 1

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Grades: 5 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

Veterans recall the brutality of war with the Japanese, their allegiance to their emperor, the tropical heat, the jungle, the danger of the rocky reefs, and the threat of malaria, for which they took...

The Rising Sun, Part 7

Episode 7

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Grades: 3 4 5 Higher Education

The island of Guadalcanal, in the Solomon Islands in the Pacific, was the major offensive area for the Japanese, in order to control Australia and the South Pacific. Veterans and historians reflect on...

A World War, Part 4

Episode 4

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Grades: 3 4 5 9 10 11 12

Veterans share their recollections of the day that Pearl Harbor was attacked. They were at war again.

A World War, Part 1

Episode 1

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Grades: 5 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

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...

Vanishing Generation, Part 7

Episode 7

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Grades: 5 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

Tee Senn, cryptologist, speaks of the tank battles, about the reality, not TV, and seeing a tank explode. "...For years...you wake up...it gets to you...it's something that you don't ever want to have...

Vanishing Generation, Part 5

Episode 5

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Grades: 5 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

Russell Meyne, B-17 pilot, says, "But Pearl Harbor, of course, was one about 4-hour period," and he didn't get hit, didn't get shot..."there was no continuity to it...the beginning and end was right...

Vanishing Generation, Part 3

Episode 3

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Grades: 5 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

Don Ziglar, U.S.S. Yorktown Quartermaster, recalls Japanese fighter planes coming toward the Yorktown. The captain was out on the wing of the bridge, at the starboard side. The bridge wasn't big...

The Doolittle Raiders | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 18

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Grades: 5 8

The Columbia Army Air Base in Lexington County became the headquarters of Colonel Jimmy Doolittle's famous "Raiders," who trained there for their bombing run over Tokyo. Courtesy of the Thomas Cooper...

SC Veterans in History, Part 7

Episode 7

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8

In 2009, student filmmaker Morgan Adams created a film about the Doolittle Raiders for the National History Day Competition. After the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, the United States government asked...

Colonel Herbert E. Carter | Tuskegee Airmen

Episode 3

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Grades: 5 8 9 10 11 12

Herbert E. Carter (1919 - 2012) Colonel Herbert E. Carter was one of the Tuskegee Airmen during World War II. In this interview, Wood talks about his missions. Additional Information: Carter was a...

The USS Yorktown | Palmetto Scene

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Grades: 3 4 5

We celebrate the 4th of July with a special look at the USS Yorktown located in Charleston, S.C. We learn how this carrier went from battle to victory during World War II. Also, a tour of all that...

Flight Instructor

Episode 2

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Grades: 5 8 9 10 11 12

Celebrate Freedom -Tuskegee Airmen 60th Anniversary was an event that took place in 2004 in Camden, South Carolina. In 1941, the 99th Pursuit Squadron, the first African-American air fighting unit...

The Tuskegee Airmen Phenomenon

Episode 1

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Grades: 5 8 9 10 11 12

The story of the Tuskegee Airman is even more a story about America than about a group of determined young African American men and women in the late 30’s and early 40’s. On this edition of...