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During World War II, a pinup photograph of actress Betty Grable was used to teach flyers how to read aerial maps; A Chinese scientist attempted to ride a rocket-powered chair to the Moon, over a hundred years ago. [11] NOTE: Featured footage of Apollo 14 mission. Mel Stuart December 2, 1984 () Thomas Fuchs, Don Hall, David H. Vowell
The main adventure is set in 1942, in the middle of World War II. Three children, young Norman, Dennis and Mary are evacuated to Westbourne, away from the bombs. The boys stay at a farm, owned by Amy Hobbs (Aunty Amy) and her granddaughter Polly, and Mary stays at Westbourne Hall with the wealthy Miss Millington and Mr Grainger.
The Lost Evidence is a television program on the History Channel which uses three-dimensional landscapes, reconnaissance photos, eyewitness testimony and documents to reevaluate and recreate key battles of World War II.
The show is set during World War II, and concerns a group of Allied prisoners of war who use a German POW camp as a base of operations for sabotage and espionage purposes directed against Nazi Germany. It ran for six seasons, with 168 half-hour episodes being produced in total. The show premiered on CBS on September 17, 1965, and ran until ...
Okinawa: The Last Battle of World War II (Battle of Okinawa) Raid on the Bataan Death Camp (Battle of Bataan, Cabanatuan Raid) Tet Offensive (Tet Offensive) The Big Red One (Operation Torch, Battle of El Guettar, Invasion of Sicily, Operation Overlord) Afghanistan's Deadliest Snipers (Operation Anaconda, Operation Asbury Park, the death of Pat ...
World War II Behind Closed Doors: Stalin, the Nazis and the West is a 2008 six-episode BBC/PBS documentary series on the role of Joseph Stalin and German-Soviet relations before, during, and after World War II, created by Laurence Rees and Andrew Williams.
The series was created after the airing of a one-time special called Dogfights: The Greatest Air Battles in September 2005. That program's combination of realistic-looking CGI dogfights, interviews, period documentary footage, and voice-over narration proved so successful, that the History Channel requested the production of an entire TV series, which became Dogfights. [2]
Such patrols were last conducted during World War II. During and after the war several varieties were manufactured. [1] The pin shows the broadside of a Gato-class diesel submarine. A scroll beneath the submarine holds service stars, one gold star for each successful patrol after the first or a silver star for five successful patrols ...