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WWII Behind Closed Doors: Stalin, the Nazis and the West | Clip #2 | PBS
Award-winning historian and filmmaker Laurence Rees tells the hidden story of Stalin's backroom dealings, first with the Nazis and then with Roosevelt and Churchill. 04:08
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INDEPENDENT LENS | WINGS OF DEFEAT | Film Clip #4 | PBS (#1022)
American WWII veterans recall the mayhem of Kamikaze attacks. 01:15
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INDEPENDENT LENS | WINGS OF DEFEAT | Film Clip #3 | PBS (#1022)
With the help of animation, two Japanese pilots recall a vicious dogfight with American planes. 01:44
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INDEPENDENT LENS | WINGS OF DEFEAT | Film Clip #2 | PBS (#1022)
A surviving Kamikaze shows what was to be his funeral portrait—a photo of a young man, taken before his final flight. 01:41
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INDEPENDENT LENS | WINGS OF DEFEAT | Trailer | PBS (#1022)
What were the Japanese Kamikazes thinking just before crashing into their targets? Retrace their journeys from teenagers to doomed pilots. 02:33
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Heavy Rains Slow Allied Advance
This is a portion of a newsreel shown to general audiences describing how the weather slowed the advance of 5th Army in June of 1944. 03:39
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U.S. Bombers Pave Way for Pacific Invasion
This is a portion of a newsreel shown to general audiences describing the campaign in New Britain near New Guinea and Makin Island in the Gilbert Island chain in November of 1943. 03:47
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U.S. Army Air Corps Policy
This is an excerpt from a film used to describe the United States Army Air Forces policy in Europe. The film begins with descriptions of actions taken in March of 1944. The film appears to be one used ... 04:43
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Stepping Stone To Japan
This is a film used to describe what the United States Army Air Forces were doing to win the war in early 1944 in the Marshall Islands. It is not clear if it was only used for American forces as a training ... 04:55
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Review of the War in Europe
Produced sometime in 1946, this film is a retrospective of the war in Europe. It includes footage of Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin meeting in Yalta in early 1945, battlefield action in Europe, and ... 05:10
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Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor
This segment shows film of the attack on Pearl Harbor from the Japanese perspective. This film was captured from the Japanese Imperial Government and shown to audiences in the United States sometime ... 02:47
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Women's Army Auxiliary Corps
In this series of short films, WAACs are seen on a parade ground at a training base and on parade through a downtown business district. In the last film clip, the woman inspecting the troops is Colonel ... 01:38
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Color film of Japanese General Yoshijiro Umezu, Chief of the Army General Staff, signing the Instruments of Surrender. September 2, 1945
In this short silent film, Japanese General Yoshijiro Umezu, Chief of the Army General Staff, signs both copies of the Instrument of Surrender. When the ceremony was completed, one copy was given to the ... 00:16
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Color film of the second flag raising on Mt. Suribachi on Iwo Jima February 23, 1945
In this short silent film, the U.S. flag is raised for the second time on the island of Iwo Jima on February 23, 1945. 00:55
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SECRETS OF THE DEAD | The Hunt for Nazi Scientists | PBS (#501)
At the end of World War II, Allied agents engaged in a desperate race to capture the elite of Germany¹s scientific community in an effort to gain an advantage in the Cold War and Space Race. 00:31













