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Black Americans answered the call to serve in WWII, only to face a strictly segregated military.
1:24
A telegram, a father's walk home and a halted dance: Luverne mourns a Marine killed on Saipan.
12:43
WWII turned Mobile, Alabama, into a boomtown as 150,000 newcomers arrived for defense jobs.
5:52
On the Anzio front, Waterbury's Babe Ciarlo wrote home about pork chops, never the fighting.
1:42
Luverne fighter pilot Quentin Aanenson recalls the first time he knew he had killed men.
2:47
Future U.S. Senator Daniel Inouye watched Japanese planes streak overhead on Dec. 7, 1941.
1:29
Dec. 8, 1941: Americans gather by their radios as FDR asks Congress to declare war.
0:51
The German offensive strikes out of the Ardennes fog, and Mobile's Tom Galloway is in its path.
1:50
"We loved every single bite." Ray Leopold remembers his chocolate-covered roast beef.
7:45
American soldiers bear witness to the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps in 1945.
8:41
Fighting in WWII Europe, Joseph Medicine Crow completed the four deeds of a Crow war chief.
5:10
From Luverne to Mobile, Americans pray and wait for word of the D-Day invasion.
