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Vanishing Generation, Part 4 - Prisoner of War
   - Episode 4 Vanishing Generation, Part 10 10

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Vanishing Generation, Part 10
Episode 10
The single most important event in world history in the 20th century occurred more than sixty years ago, and we have lost many of our ties to that past. Preserving the history of World War II has...
Victory by Valor: Shaw Air Force Base, Part 6 - Missile Loaders
   - Episode 6 Victory by Valor: Shaw Air Force Base, Part 3 3

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Victory by Valor: Shaw Air Force Base, Part 3
Episode 3
The three squadrons of the 20th Fighter Wing must be ready for high-intensity combat at a moment's notice. That requires training of typically about 12 hours a day. The planning usually happens the...
Vanishing Generation, Part 4 - Prisoner of War
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Vanishing Generation, Part 9
Episode 9
Veterans of World War II reflect on whether they should be considered heroes or not. One says he happened to be over there, and he volunteered to go to Hawaii, but they didn't know the war would come...
Victory by Valor: Shaw Air Force Base, Part 6 - Missile Loaders
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Victory by Valor: Shaw Air Force Base, Part 2
Episode 2
The 20th Fighter Wing arrived at Shaw Air Force Base in 1946. No one knows where the motto came from. The emblem was approved in 1934. The records no longer exist, but the colors have significance...
Victory by Valor: Shaw Air Force Base, Part 6 - Missile Loaders
   - Episode 6 Victory By Valor: Shaw Air Force Base, Part 1 1

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Victory By Valor: Shaw Air Force Base, Part 1
Episode 1
Shaw Air Base in Sumter, S.C. is the home of the 20th Fighter Wing of the United States Air Force, with 88 aircraft and three fighter squadrons. Shaw is also headquarters for the 9th Air Force and U.S...
Vanishing Generation, Part 6 - Red Ball Express
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Vanishing Generation, Part 4
Episode 4
Tom Grove, prisoner of war survivor, recalls the Battle of the Bulge, and says that is where he got his first combat injury. He was taken prisoner that day, after a German tank pulled up in front of...
Vanishing Generation, Part 4 - Prisoner of War
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Vanishing Generation, Part 7
Episode 7
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 4 - Prisoner of War
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Vanishing Generation, Part 8
Episode 8
Tom Grove, prisoner of war survivor, tells the story of being in his second prison camp, and hearing bombing way off in the distance, and how the noise of artillery got louder and closer, along with...
Vanishing Generation, Part 4 - Prisoner of War
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Vanishing Generation, Part 3
Episode 3
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...
Vanishing Generation, Part 4 - Prisoner of War
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Vanishing Generation, Part 5
Episode 5
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...