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Wynton Marsalis talks about making the music for “The War.”

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Ken Burns talks about his decision to make “The War.”

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Watch a preview of Episode Six: The Ghost Front, Dec. 1944 - March 1945.

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Watch a preview of Episode Five: FUBAR, Sept. 1944 - Dec. 1944.

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Watch a preview of Episode Four: Pride of Our Nation, June 1944 - Aug. 1944.

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Watch a preview of Episode Two: When Things Get Tough, Jan. 1943 - Dec. 1943.

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Watch a preview of Episode Three: A Deadly Calling, Nov. 1943 - June 1944

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Watch a preview of Episode One: A Necessary War.

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Ken Burns talks about what makes WWII so memorable.

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On Tuesday morning, May 25, 1943, tensions explode at the Alabama Dry Dock shipyard.

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The armed forces of the United States remained strictly segregated.

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Al McIntosh writes of personal losses the war brought to those in Luverne.