Fri, 14 November 2008  Episode 17 : This week's show is reenactments of actual war letters sent home from soldiers overs seas. The song you hear is called To Victory! by DJ Topshelf. Comments[1] |
Fri, 31 October 2008  Episode 16 : Benito Mussolini is credited with being one of the key figures in the creation of Fascism. He became the Prime Minister of Italy in 1922 and began using the title Il Duce(is a Italian word meaning leader) by 1925. Mussolini remained in power until he was replaced in 1943, for a short period after until his death he was the leader of the Italian Social Republic. Comments[0] |
Tue, 14 October 2008  Episode 15 : This is the true story of war correspondent Michael Peddap, and how he was imprisoned in Bulgaria by the Nazis, and how he finally escaped. The song you hear at the start and finish is called To Victory! by DJ Topshelf.Comments[0] |
Tue, 30 September 2008  Episode 14 : Born in Louisville, Kentucky, John Mason Brown graduated from Harvard College in 1923. He worked for the New York Evening Post from 1929 to 1941. He served as a lieutenant in the United States Navy during World War II, begining in 1942. His book, To All Hands, documents his activities aboard USS Ancon during Operation Husky, the invasion of Sicily. Comments[0] |
Sun, 14 September 2008  Episode 13 : Following the entry of the U.S. into World War II, Ernie Pyle became a war correspondent, applying his intimate style to the war. Instead of the movements of armies or the activities of generals Pyle generally wrote from the perspective of the common soldier. An approach that won him a Pulitzer Prize in 1944. Comments[1] |
Mon, 1 September 2008  Episode 12 : This week's episode is about the men that served and fought from Dutch Harbor, Alaska. Just 2,500 miles from Tokyo, they fought the weather as much as the enemy. The song you hear in this show is To Victory! by DJ Topshelf. Comments[0] |
Mon, 18 August 2008  Episode 11 : Mrs. Etta Shiber, a former housewife, who help form the Paris Underground. Where she helped smuggle 150 British soldiers out of occupied France. She was tracked around Paris, and was caught and imprisoned for a year and a half by the Gestapo. Etta was finally handed over the U.S. in exchange for Johanna Hofmann, a Nazi spy. The song you hear at the start and finish is called To Victory! by DJ Topshelf. Comments[0] |
Sun, 3 August 2008  Episode 10 : About 4:30 in the afternoon of November 2, 1942. A fast Dutch luxury liner was torpedoed and sunk some few hundred miles off the coast of South America. Only a few of the more then four hundred persons on the ship survived, and three of them were Basil Izzi, Cornelius van der Slot and Nicko Hoogendam. They were a drift on a raft for 83 days just one day short of 12 weeks before they were pick up by United States Navy. Comments[1] |
