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This film documents resistance force activities and anti-Nazi operations within Denmark in 1943 through 1944. –

In Color. The by water invasion of Iwo Jima, including bombings, rockets, fmale throwers. Acadamy Award.

Dir. Frank Capra. Part of the “Why We Fight” series, volume 2. Hope for peace is abandoned when the Nazis invand Austria, Chechoslovakia, and Poland.We see the events of Nazi Germany’s diplomatic and military acts of international aggression. One by one, we learn of the Nazi’s consistently underhanded and relenting violation of every promise of peace and exploitation of their foes’s attempts of appeasement until the invasion of Poland September of 1939 which led to Britain and France finally taking an armed stand against Hitler.

This film shows that there are no rules of sportsmanship or fair play on the battlefield. Soldiers were encouraged to use any anything that comes to hand to defeat the enemy.

Dir. Frank Capra. From Frank Capra’s “Why We Fight” series, volume 6. Explores the culture and industry of China, Japan’s determination to conquer the Chinese, and the Chinese resist the invasion of the Japanese.

The great naval battle that changed the course of WWII. The Japanese attack on Midway in June 1942, filmed as it happened. On June 4-6, 1942, a large Japanese force attempted to capture Midway Island in the North Pacific, but was defeated by U.S. forces with a loss ratio of 4:1 in favor of the Americans. On hand was a crew of naval photographers directed by John Ford.

Narrated by Ronald Reagan, the documentary We Take New Guinea offers footage of American troops capturing key islands during World War II that led ultimately to the successful invasion of New Guinea.