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A Path to Victory, Part 1 - Omaha Beach | South Carolinians in WW II - Episode 1 A Path to Victory, Part 3 3

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A Path to Victory, Part 3
Episode 3
Veterans reflect on General Patton, from the way he required his men to dress to the way he so directly addressed his men right up front, saying, "Some who sailed over here are not going back home."...
A Path to Victory, Part 1 - Omaha Beach | South Carolinians in WW II - Episode 1 A Path to Victory, Part 4 4

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A Path to Victory, Part 4
Episode 4
A first-hand account of Auschwitz is provided by Lou Fowler. "The Germans were absolutely obsessed with killing people. It was a killing machine."
John Wesley | History of SC Slide Collection

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John Wesley | History of SC Slide Collection
Episode 139
John Wesley (1703-1791), the founder of the Methodist Church, was in South Carolina only briefly, but the denomination he founded has had a profound effect on the province and state. From a small...
Banastre Tarleton | History of SC Slide Collection

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Banastre Tarleton | History of SC Slide Collection
Episode 134
Banastre Tarleton (1754-1833), known to South Carolina revolutionary leaders as "Bloody Tarleton," first came to Charleston as an officer under General Clinton's command in the failed attack on Fort...
Thomas Sumter | History of SC Slide Collection

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Thomas Sumter | History of SC Slide Collection
Episode 133
Thomas Sumter (1732-1832) was, at his death, the last surviving general of the Revolutionary Army. Born in Charlottesville, Virginia, he fought in the French and Indian Wars as a Virginia militia man...
Colonel William Rhett | History of SC Slide Collection

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Colonel William Rhett | History of SC Slide Collection
Episode 123
Born in England, Colonel William Rhett (1666-1722) came to the Carolina colony in November 1694 as a captain of a merchant ship. In the impoverished Carolina colony, pirates, former seamen who had...
Charles Pinckney | History of SC Slide Collection

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Charles Pinckney | History of SC Slide Collection
Episode 114
Born in Charleston, Charles Pinckney (1757-1824) studied law under his father, Colonel Charles Pinckney, and was admitted to the bar, but never practiced law. During the Revolutionary War, he was...
Andrew Pickens | History of SC Slide Collection

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Andrew Pickens | History of SC Slide Collection
Episode 111
Born in Edgefield, Governor Andrew Pickens (1779-1838) studied at the College of New Jersey (now Princeton). During the War of 1812, he served as a colonel in the U.S. Army and in later stages of the...
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...