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Publisher
Cinedigm
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A group of brave Polish pilots known as Squadron 303 fought in the skies over England in World War II, not just to keep Great Britain free from the Nazis, but also to keep alive the very idea of their own country, which had existed in its modem form for barely 20 years before it was crushed between the opposing jaws of Germany and Russia. Equipped with the almost-obsolete Hurricane airplane and RAF blue uniforms, they fought, and Poland lived
Publisher
Cinedigm
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A group of brave Polish pilots known as Squadron 303 fought in the skies over England in WW2, not just to keep Great Britain free from the Nazis, but also to keep alive the very idea of their own country, which had existed in its modem form for barely twenty years before it was crushed between the opposing jaws of Germany and Russia. Equipped with the almost-obsolete Hurricane airplane and RAF blue uniforms, they fought, and Poland lived
3) Australia
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
In northern Australia at the beginning of World War II, an English aristocrat inherits a cattle station the size of Maryland. When English cattle barons plot to take her land, she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn stock-man to drive 2,000 head of cattle across hundreds of miles of the country's most unforgiving land, only to still face the bombing of Darwin, Australia, by the Japanese forces that had attacked Pearl Harbor only months earlier...
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Flying the secret sky: In 1940, Nazi air strikes had Britain on its knees. The RAF was desperate for planes and their supply of U.S. aircraft, sent on ship convoys, had been sunk in the icy Atlantic by relentless German U-boats. In response, the U.S. launched a secret operation to fly the planes across the unforgiving ocean to England
On a wind and a prayer: Takes an in-depth look at the Japanese Fugo Balloon Bomb offensive and highlights its place...
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
In August 1945, the world was transformed in the blink of an eye when American forces dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and then Nagasaki. The destruction was unprecedented and the bombings precipitated the end of World War II. Contains archival footage and stunning photography. Interviews are from both Japanese survivors and the Americans who believed that their involvement would help end a brutal conflict
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