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Once an American citizen, Sam was determined to fight for his newfound country and freedom. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a714274bce176274f9bb24e/1596798089244-8EE09B7E50A9M5P24ETI/David+Wisnia+Thumbnail.jpg The Series - Holocaust Survivor’s Powerful Story David Wisnia shares his harrowing experience from the invasion of Poland and the Warsaw Ghetto, to Auschwitz and his escape attempt from Dachau. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a714274bce176274f9bb24e/1591718042215-9KY1LFYQEF9NBPDUHB1G/Leon+Waldman+Thumbnail.jpg The Series - Our Worst Mission B-17 gunner Leon Waldman recounts several of his fifty bombing missions over German-patrolled skies, including one so dangerous that his survival left him with the feeling of being reborn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a714274bce176274f9bb24e/1591719122859-3AC29KAJ4SC1O16AJVCD/maxresdefault.jpg The Series - Surviving Okinawa WW2 Marine Veteran Ted Estridge recalls being wounded during the Battle of Okinawa, and the unlikely events that lead him back to the very hill where he was wounded, years after the war’s end. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a714274bce176274f9bb24e/1591719629319-ZX0KQY44MRYF921JITP9/maxresdefault+2.jpg The Series - Liberation Of Dachau WW2 Veteran Don Greenbaum talks of the realities of combat and the liberation of the Dachau Concentration Camp. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a714274bce176274f9bb24e/1591719845258-045YPD1VE6T274L00XUU/maxresdefault+3.jpg The Series - Abandoning Ship In The Battle Of Midway WW2 Veteran Roger Spooner of the United States Navy recalls the Battle of Midway, abandoning a sinking ship, and spending a night stranded at sea. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a714274bce176274f9bb24e/1591720032244-UVTXJC7J2JWEUFK7OSSS/maxresdefault+4.jpg The Series - Memories Of A Tuskegee Pilot Tuskegee Airmen fighter pilot Harold Brown talks about air-to-air combat, surviving capture and POW camps, and the obstacles that were overcome on the Red Tail’s road to becoming the first African-American squadron. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a714274bce176274f9bb24e/1591720468117-E5JB99YYV7R8089S11OZ/maxresdefault+5.jpg The Series - Japanese-American Soldier Recalls WW2 Noboru Seki of the 442nd Infantry Regiment recalls the attack on Pearl Harbor, Japanese-American internment camps, and proudly serving his country in combat in spite of segregation and racial inequality. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a714274bce176274f9bb24e/1591720602578-GHU0AN1NBJ6IKY1G3OAI/maxresdefault+6.jpg The Series - Jewish Soldier Goes To Battle In Nazi Germany American Jewish soldier Robert “Bud” Sabetay recalls his many experiences in the Battle of the Bulge, and what it was like to face antisemitism in the heart of Nazi Germany. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a714274bce176274f9bb24e/1591721058024-LY9OJJBCPYSY7VCL19XJ/maxresdefault+7.jpg The Series - Shot Down Over Germany WW2 Bomber Navigator Richard Kinder flew several missions in a B-17 Flying Fortress, was shot down over Germany, captured, and made a prisoner of war - all while wondering if the woman he loved was still waiting for him to come home. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a714274bce176274f9bb24e/1591721207162-2F9PBAECITU811U52VV3/maxresdefault+8.jpg The Series - Four Years in a Japanese Prison Camp Following Japan’s rapid conquest across the Pacific, Glenn Frazier of the U.S. Army was captured by the enemy. 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But his dreams of flight would be crushed when he was sent to the Western Front to fight the advancing Allied Forces with a disoriented and dwindling German Army. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a714274bce176274f9bb24e/1591721544843-K8L4SEI4IF6JBJKCBED2/maxresdefault+10.jpg The Series - D-Day “Things You Don’t Forget” WW2 Veteran Harold McMurran recalls what it was like to be part of the historical Allied invasion on the beaches of Normandy on June 6th, 1944. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a714274bce176274f9bb24e/1591724376604-RBBO1ENY3I778834MI34/maxresdefault+11.jpg The Series - What We Did Was Real WW2 Veteran Cliff Brooks of the 1st Marine Division shares his memories of the invasions of Peleliu and Okinawa, and the lasting effects combat can have on a person. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a714274bce176274f9bb24e/1591724492668-BNF5YJD9RUIRO9ASMK9U/maxresdefault+12.jpg The Series - Losing Friends In Combat Arlin White, machine gunner for the U.S. Army 97th Infantry Division, recalls the Allied advance into Germany, taking enemy prisoners, and what it means to lose friends in combat. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a714274bce176274f9bb24e/1591724611414-H2T75SZ263G6EJCJRY90/maxresdefault+13.jpg The Series - Bomber Shot Full of Holes Over Japan B-29 Superfortress Radio Operator Raymond Carey shares his experiences from his many bombing missions in the Pacific theater of World War II. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a714274bce176274f9bb24e/1591724715926-8X6XU2AAZHAX4666391D/maxresdefault+14.jpg The Series - D-Day and Beyond with the 101st Airborne From jumping behind enemy lines on D-Day, to Operation Market Garden and the Battle of the Bulge, paratrooper Daniel McBride Jr. tells of his experiences with the legendary 101st Airborne. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a714274bce176274f9bb24e/1591724852073-371KWDD371PKHW52VAET/maxresdefault+15.jpg The Series - Growing Up In Nazi-Occupied Belgium Nelly “Michette” Thirifays-Hiett was five years old when her homeland of Belgium was invaded by the German Army. Here you’ll hear her perspective on living under enemy occupation and what freedom means to her. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a714274bce176274f9bb24e/1591725251675-3EL908VIR214JGIRW1UN/maxresdefault+16.jpg The Series - I’ve Seen Stuff That a Kid Shouldn’t See WW2 Navy Veteran Don Kunkel takes us from the shores of Iwo Jima and the tragedies of Marpi Point to his life-altering experiences in the Philippine Islands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a714274bce176274f9bb24e/1591725420573-EVSI5HZKYOQ3GAG076YY/maxresdefault+17.jpg The Series - WW2 Medal Of Honor Recipient WW2 Marine Hershel “Woody” Williams - the last living Medal of Honor recipient from the Pacific Theater - describes the series of events that lead to him being awarded the medal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a714274bce176274f9bb24e/1591725524600-CRALW8NJZ5NHXEJRQMK8/maxresdefault+18.jpg The Series - Medic Finds His Friend Badly Wounded WW2 Infantry Medic Melvin Young tells of German mines and rockets, treating wounded men, and making life-or-death decisions on the battlefield. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a714274bce176274f9bb24e/1591725652511-BTF6TMDCC1SR05CD6HKF/maxresdefault+19.jpg The Series - Daring Escape From A Sinking Ship WW2 Veteran Adone Calderone tells about his daring escape from the sinking USS West Virginia and his thoughts on how the disaster at Pearl Harbor could have been avoided. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a714274bce176274f9bb24e/1591725756573-BU1PIWTHKDOPXYCO8PTY/maxresdefault+20.jpg The Series - Leading a Platoon In Africa and Across Europe Follow WW2 Veteran Ancil Fisher as he leads a platoon from the conflict in Africa, to D-Day, across Europe, and into the heart of Nazi Germany. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a714274bce176274f9bb24e/1591725907328-5BAI40XF1CWCBTDGIG2F/hqdefault+21.jpg The Series - WAC's Journey To Find Her Husband In The Middle Of WW2 Follow Ilene Hall’s incredible journey across Europe as she searches for her husband in the middle of a world war. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a714274bce176274f9bb24e/1591726122014-WABGFSKIC8S2XZLGGAIT/maxresdefault+22.jpg The Series - Pearl Harbor & Kamikaze Attack Survivor Follow Milton Mapou's story, from Pearl Harbor to the Pacific Theater, where he survived two separate kamikaze attacks and the sinking of the U.S.S. 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