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Growing Up
2:12
Sam Hines talks about growing up in Minneapolis in 1941and the excitement of the service.
Joseph Medicine Crow
8:41
Joe Medicine Crow, the last war chief of the Crow Tribe of Montana is profiled in The War.
Mobile Shipyards
9:56
On Tuesday morning, May 25, 1943, tensions explode at the Alabama Dry Dock shipyard.
African-Americans Troops Training
4:10
The armed forces of the United States remained strictly segregated.
The War Comes Home to Luverne
1:24
Al McIntosh writes of personal losses the war brought to those in Luverne.
D-Day in Luverne
5:10
Al McIntosh writes about D-Day in the Rock County Star Herald.
Wartown
12:43
WWII brought an end to the chronic unemployment of Mobile, AL.
The Four Towns
11:00
The four towns featured in THE WAR; Mobile, Sacramento, Waterbury and Luverne.
Rationing and Recycling
7:22
During the war everything seemed to be rationed or in short supply:
Babe Ciarlo in Anzio
5:52
Babe Ciarlo never revealed his experiences in his letters home.
That's War
1:26
Young soldier Daniel Inouye comes face-to-face with the enemy.
'Knew I'd Killed Men'
1:42
Fighter pilot Quentin Aanenson recalls the first time he knew he'd "killed men."
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