Personal Journeys of World War II. Volumes 3 & 4

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Volume two of a six volume set.
v. 3: 1944-Victory in sight. Liberation of Rome -- D-Day -- Tuskegee airmen -- Fall of the Reich -- Fight in the Pacific -- Battle of the Bulge. v. 4. :1945- "V" for victory. The final push -- The soul of evil -- Iwo Jima & Okinawa -- Surrender in Europe -- The bomb -- Welcome home?.
Hosted and narrated by Glenn Ford.
Gerald Ford, Daniel Inouye, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Mike Wallace, Robert Dole, Eli Wallach, John Connally, Gen. Westmoreland, William Manchester, Bill Maudlin, and others.
v. 3: As the Allied grid themselves for the Normandy invasion, transforming England into an enormous invasion, transforming England into an enormous military base, the ferocious fight for Italy continues. Cartoonist Bill Mauldin recalls the bloody campaign to seize Monte Cassino, while Senator Daniel Inouye (Capt. US Army) fighting with the renowned 442nd Japanese-American Regiment, chillingly relates his killing of an enemy soldier during the Allied drive on Rome. v.4: Gerald Ford (Lt. US Navy) recalls near misses by kamikaze pilots in the Pacific, and Senator Bob Dole (Lt. US Army) reflects on the moment he was seriously wounded in Northern Italy. Senator Daniel Inouye (Capt. US Army) matter-of-factly) reconstructs the fateful day he was wounded three times while destroying three enemy machine gun emplacements, and Bill Mauldin remembers looking into the heart of evil during the liberation of Nazi concentration camps. These and other powerful, personal tales continue as 1945 shapes up into a year of victory. Iwo Jima and Okinawa fall to US forces and the Allies cross the Rhine, linking up with the Russians on German soil. Hitler's once vaunted army crumbles and his suicide signals Germany's surrender. Shortly after V-E Day, Japan's fate is sealed at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
DVD format.

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