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Dermot Turning, nephew of British codebreaker Alan Turing, talked about his book, "X, Y & Z: The Real Story of How Enigma Was Broken." He chronicled how French, British and Polish spies and mathematicians were able to decipher the German Enigma code during World War II. The International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C. hosted this event.

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This film documents the Battle of Okinawa from the U.S. Navy's point of view. In addition to describing Navy support for the ground troops, the film shows some of the nearly 2,000 kamikaze attacks, and American pilots and gunners trying to shoot them down over the Pacific. Opening with a few dramatized scenes on board a ship, the film was assembled primarily from combat footage by Hollywood filmmaker and Navy EnsignBudd Boetticher, who directed many low budget westerns.

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This color film shot by U.S. Marine combat photographers tells the story of the first 50 days of the brutal battle for the Japanese island of Okinawa. The report covers action between the April 1 invasion to about May 20, 1945. During this 82-day-long battle, about 95,000 Japanese Army troops and 12,000 Americans were killed.

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In the second of two reports filmed by U.S. Marine combat photographers, the story of the 1945 Battle of Okinawa is told from about mid-May to the conclusion of fighting on June 22, 1945. About 49,000 Americans were killed or wounded during the battle.

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This 1958 episode of the U.S. Army "Big Picture" series tells the story of Okinawa - how the island evolved from a World War II battle site, to a Korean War airfield, to an important overseas American military base in the 1950s. Produced between 1951 and 1971, the Big Picture was a weekly television report for the Army and the American public.

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A panel of four veterans discuss their lives in the U.S. military and combat experiences during World War II. Participants include veterans of the D-Day invasion of Normandy, Battle of the Bulge, Battle of Okinawa, as well as a fighter pilot with the Tuskegee Airman. This event took place in Arlington, Virginia, and was part of a conference hosted by the group Friends of the National World War II Memorial.

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The Last Bomb is a 1945 War Department film documenting the final months of the B-29 super fortress air campaign against Japan. It concludes with the August 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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Dermot Turning, nephew of British codebreaker Alan Turing, talked about his book, "X, Y & Z: The Real Story of How Enigma Was Broken." He chronicled how French, British and Polish spies and mathematicians were able to decipher the German Enigma code during World War II. The International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C. hosted this event.

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This film documents the Battle of Okinawa from the U.S. Navy's point of view. In addition to describing Navy support for the ground troops, the film shows some of the nearly 2,000 kamikaze attacks, and American pilots and gunners trying to shoot them down over the Pacific. Opening with a few dramatized scenes on board a ship, the film was assembled primarily from combat footage by Hollywood filmmaker and Navy EnsignBudd Boetticher, who directed many low budget westerns.

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This color film shot by U.S. Marine combat photographers tells the story of the first 50 days of the brutal battle for the Japanese island of Okinawa. The report covers action between the April 1 invasion to about May 20, 1945. During this 82-day-long battle, about 95,000 Japanese Army troops and 12,000 Americans were killed.

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In the second of two reports filmed by U.S. Marine combat photographers, the story of the 1945 Battle of Okinawa is told from about mid-May to the conclusion of fighting on June 22, 1945. About 49,000 Americans were killed or wounded during the battle.

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This 1958 episode of the U.S. Army "Big Picture" series tells the story of Okinawa - how the island evolved from a World War II battle site, to a Korean War airfield, to an important overseas American military base in the 1950s. Produced between 1951 and 1971, the Big Picture was a weekly television report for the Army and the American public.

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A panel of four veterans discuss their lives in the U.S. military and combat experiences during World War II. Participants include veterans of the D-Day invasion of Normandy, Battle of the Bulge, Battle of Okinawa, as well as a fighter pilot with the Tuskegee Airman. This event took place in Arlington, Virginia, and was part of a conference hosted by the group Friends of the National World War II Memorial.

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The Last Bomb is a 1945 War Department film documenting the final months of the B-29 super fortress air campaign against Japan. It concludes with the August 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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Dermot Turning, nephew of British codebreaker Alan Turing, talked about his book, "X, Y & Z: The Real Story of How Enigma Was Broken." He chronicled how French, British and Polish spies and mathematicians were able to decipher the German Enigma code during World War II. The International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C. hosted this event.

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This film documents the Battle of Okinawa from the U.S. Navy's point of view. In addition to describing Navy support for the ground troops, the film shows some of the nearly 2,000 kamikaze attacks, and American pilots and gunners trying to shoot them down over the Pacific. Opening with a few dramatized scenes on board a ship, the film was assembled primarily from combat footage by Hollywood filmmaker and Navy EnsignBudd Boetticher, who directed many low budget westerns.

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This color film shot by U.S. Marine combat photographers tells the story of the first 50 days of the brutal battle for the Japanese island of Okinawa. The report covers action between the April 1 invasion to about May 20, 1945. During this 82-day-long battle, about 95,000 Japanese Army troops and 12,000 Americans were killed.

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In the second of two reports filmed by U.S. Marine combat photographers, the story of the 1945 Battle of Okinawa is told from about mid-May to the conclusion of fighting on June 22, 1945. About 49,000 Americans were killed or wounded during the battle.

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Seventy-five years ago on May 8, 1945, the Allies accepted Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces, bringing an end to hostilities in World War II's European theater. May 8 is known as V-E Day, or Victory in Europe Day. American History TV and Washington Journal were LIVE to mark the anniversary with a look at the lead-up to the surrender and the meaning of the Nazi defeat for Europe and the rest of the world. Our guest was Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Atkinson, author of "The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945," the final book in his "Liberation Trilogy" about the Allied triumph in Europe.

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Episode four of a ten-part U.S. Army documentary from 1965 tells the story of America's entry into World World II beginning with the attack on Pearl Harbor through the November, 1942 invasion of North Africa. The film also details nationwide industrial mobilization and President Roosevelt's address to Congress on his plans for producing more planes, ships, tanks, guns, and military supplies. This aired on the Army's "Big Picture" television series.

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Episode five of a ten-part U.S. Army documentary from 1965 covers World World II from approximately one year after the December 1941 Pearl Harbor attack to the Allied invasion of Sicily in the summer of 1943. This aired on the Army's "Big Picture" television series.

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Episode six of a ten-part U.S. Army documentary from 1965 tells the story of World War II beginning with the July, 1943 Allied invasion of Sicily to operations in the Pacific, to the invasion of southern Italy. This aired on the Army's "Big Picture" television series.

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Episode seven of a ten-part U.S. Army documentary from 1965 examines World War II in the year 1944, from Pacific Island campaigns to the D-Day invasion, liberation of Paris, and first incursions into Germany prior to the Battle of the Bulge. This aired on the "Big Picture" television series.

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Episode eight of a ten-part U.S. Army documentary from 1965 brings the story of World War II to a conclusion by documenting European and Pacific theater operations from October 1944 through the surrender of Japan. This aired on the Army's "Big Picture" television series.

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Keith Huxen gave a tour of the National World War II Museum in New Orleans, Louisiana, and talked about the "Road to Berlin" exhibit. This second of a two-part program tells the story of the American experience in the European theater from the D-Day invasion of France to the fall of the Third Reich.

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Seventy-five years ago on May 8, 1945, the Allies accepted Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces, bringing an end to hostilities in World War II's European theater. May 8 is known as V-E Day, or Victory in Europe Day. American History TV and Washington Journal were LIVE to mark the anniversary with a look at the lead-up to the surrender and the meaning of the Nazi defeat for Europe and the rest of the world. Our guest was Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Atkinson, author of "The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945," the final book in his "Liberation Trilogy" about the Allied triumph in Europe.

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Episode four of a ten-part U.S. Army documentary from 1965 tells the story of America's entry into World World II beginning with the attack on Pearl Harbor through the November, 1942 invasion of North Africa. The film also details nationwide industrial mobilization and President Roosevelt's address to Congress on his plans for producing more planes, ships, tanks, guns, and military supplies. This aired on the Army's "Big Picture" television series.

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Episode five of a ten-part U.S. Army documentary from 1965 covers World World II from approximately one year after the December 1941 Pearl Harbor attack to the Allied invasion of Sicily in the summer of 1943. This aired on the Army's "Big Picture" television series.

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Episode six of a ten-part U.S. Army documentary from 1965 tells the story of World War II beginning with the July, 1943 Allied invasion of Sicily to operations in the Pacific, to the invasion of southern Italy. This aired on the Army's "Big Picture" television series.

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Episode seven of a ten-part U.S. Army documentary from 1965 examines World War II in the year 1944, from Pacific Island campaigns to the D-Day invasion, liberation of Paris, and first incursions into Germany prior to the Battle of the Bulge. This aired on the "Big Picture" television series.

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Episode eight of a ten-part U.S. Army documentary from 1965 brings the story of World War II to a conclusion by documenting European and Pacific theater operations from October 1944 through the surrender of Japan. This aired on the Army's "Big Picture" television series.

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Keith Huxen gave a tour of the National World War II Museum in New Orleans, Louisiana, and talked about the "Road to Berlin" exhibit. This second of a two-part program tells the story of the American experience in the European theater from the D-Day invasion of France to the fall of the Third Reich.

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Seventy-five years ago on May 8, 1945, the Allies accepted Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces, bringing an end to hostilities in World War II's European theater. May 8 is known as V-E Day, or Victory in Europe Day. American History TV and Washington Journal were LIVE to mark the anniversary with a look at the lead-up to the surrender and the meaning of the Nazi defeat for Europe and the rest of the world. Our guest was Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Atkinson, author of "The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945," the final book in his "Liberation Trilogy" about the Allied triumph in Europe.

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Episode four of a ten-part U.S. Army documentary from 1965 tells the story of America's entry into World World II beginning with the attack on Pearl Harbor through the November, 1942 invasion of North Africa. The film also details nationwide industrial mobilization and President Roosevelt's address to Congress on his plans for producing more planes, ships, tanks, guns, and military supplies. This aired on the Army's "Big Picture" television series.

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Episode five of a ten-part U.S. Army documentary from 1965 covers World World II from approximately one year after the December 1941 Pearl Harbor attack to the Allied invasion of Sicily in the summer of 1943. This aired on the Army's "Big Picture" television series.

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Episode six of a ten-part U.S. Army documentary from 1965 tells the story of World War II beginning with the July, 1943 Allied invasion of Sicily to operations in the Pacific, to the invasion of southern Italy. This aired on the Army's "Big Picture" television series.

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Episode seven of a ten-part U.S. Army documentary from 1965 examines World War II in the year 1944, from Pacific Island campaigns to the D-Day invasion, liberation of Paris, and first incursions into Germany prior to the Battle of the Bulge. This aired on the "Big Picture" television series.

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Episode eight of a ten-part U.S. Army documentary from 1965 brings the story of World War II to a conclusion by documenting European and Pacific theater operations from October 1944 through the surrender of Japan. This aired on the Army's "Big Picture" television series.

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