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Dawn Anahid MacKeen, author of "The Hundred-Year Walk: An Armenian Odyssey", tells the history of her grandfather, Stepan Miskjian, who survived the Armenian genocide....
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Audio, World War II
92-year-old Ray Richey served in field artillery in Europe during World War II, coming ashore on Normandy's Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944....
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Audio, World War II
Writer and poet John Guzlowski, author of "Echoes of Tattered Tongues: Memory Unfolded", details his parents' experiences in German labor and concentration camps....
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Audio, World War II
Walter Shapiro, author of "Hustling Hitler: The Jewish Vaudevillian Who Fooled the Führer", tells the story of how his great-uncle Freeman Bernstein managed to cheat Adolf Hitler and the Nazi government....
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Audio, World War I
Nancy Furstinger, author of 'Paws of Courage: True Tales of Heroic Dogs that Protect and Serve' tells the amazing story of Sgt Stubby, a World War I hero....
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Bound by her vows to be a cloistered nun, Mother Teresa sought permission from the Vatican to go among the poor and give assistance to the people of Calcutta....
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Audio, World War II
World War II veteran, Mr. Steve Hegedus, served in the US Army with the 11th Airborne Division, 511th parachute infantry. Steve's highest rank was staff sergeant and he served in the Pacific theater....
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Audio, World War II
A former World War II POW of the Nazis recalls being liberated by his own division....
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Audio, World War II
World War II veteran Frank Donia shares a story about the German doctor who treated him when he was a POW....
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Audio, World War II
Mel Pliner, who served with the 436th Troop Carrier Squadron during WWII, recalls landing in his plywood glider carrying 36 troops the day after D-Day in Normandy. ...
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Audio, World War II
Doug Justus talks about the weekend pass that changed his life, and probably saved it, when his unit was dispatched while he was on leave. The fate of his fellow soldiers remains a mystery. ...
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Audio, World War II
World War II veteran Tom Rice, a 94-year-old former paratrooper, relives the moment he jumped from a plane on D-Day, and what went wrong as he did. ...
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Audio, World War II
Cpl Norman Swaney of the 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment talks about parachuting into occupied France on D-Day, June 6, 1944. ...
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Audio, World War II
Sgt Jack Lloyd describes the tension of approaching Normandy and landing on Omaha beach on D-Day, June 6, 1944....
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Audio, Gear
Mary Roach, author of 'Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War', explains one of the more peculiar machines associated with weapons of war....
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Rev Chris Antal says he quit the army after witnessing practices and policies regarding the use of drones in warfare that went against his personal beliefs.
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