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The Yanks Arrive

Date released

16 Mar 1942

Series name

War Pictorial News

Issue no

46

NoS ID

156064

Story no

3 / 5

Newsreel pictures taken twenty-five years ago show the American doughboys crossing the Atlantic. They are seen arriving in Northern Ireland, to take part in WWII [sic].

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To Secret Rosies (2011)

aka: Rosies: The Female Computers of Wwii

Director

LeAnn Erickson

Subject

History; Mathematics

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 60 minutes), $24.00

In 1942 soon after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, a secret military program was launched to recruit female mathematicians who would become human ‘computers’ for the US military. Top Secret...

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To Dream Again (1949 Television)

Series

Kraft Television Theatre

American drama anthology series. Shakespeare returns to England during WWII as a gentleman of the world and falls in love. Announced by Ed Herlihy. Director and writer unknown (2/2008).

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Japanese apology for WWII actions (1995)

Genre

Interview

The Japanese Prime Minister’s apology to former allied POWs has not been enough to convince veterans here who’ve vowed to continue a fight for compensation. Arthur Titherington, who was interned in...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Victory Report: interview with Andrew Dornay about The Wildfowl Trust, including Arundel Reserve (1978)

Part of a series called Victory Report, broadcast by Radio Victory on 17 February 1978, concerning Arundel Wildfowl Trust and its origins. Track 1- GUY PAYNE interviews ANDREW DORNAY. Wildfowl Trust began...

ILR South Radio Online Audio

Media Screen Roundup - September 2015

Date

9 Oct 2015, 15:19

Author

Linda

Post Type

Post

The monthly roundup of film and television publications compiled by Simon Baker, Institute of Historical Research, and published here at the BUFVC by Linda Kaye. Here be dragons! Sorry I could not resist...

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Second World War, Series (21 Volumes) (2005)

Subject

History; Military Science

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1, 120 minutes each vol), £9.99 each vol

Robert Hardy presents a condensed chronology of WWII. The first two volumes deal with the events leading up to WWII and the political background. The later volumes concentrate mainly on the major campaigns...

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Official documents show WWII gas plans (1980)

Genre

Interview

Unidentified male speaker on the release of official documents showing the proposed use of poisoned gas in the Second World War by the allied forces. Female interviewer not identified.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Fifty years after Japanese surrender in WWII (1995)

Genre

News report

Nick Wood reports on a memorial service in Tokyo, Japan to their war dead on the fiftieth anniversary of their surrender at the end of the Second World War. Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama made a statement...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Japanese war criminals allowed to escape (1995)

Genre

Interview

Public records have been uncovered showing that in the fifties, the British Government allowed suspected Japanese WWII war criminals to be released, under pressure from the United States who wanted to...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio