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History Detectives: Season 9

9x05 Clara Barton Letter; Teddy Roosevelt War Club; Drone Propeller
TV-PG

  • 2011-07-20T02:00:00Z on PBS
  • 1h
  • United States
  • English
  • Documentary
Tucked into the pages of an antique book, our contributor from Osceola, Indiana found what he thinks may be a letter written by Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross. More than 30 years ago, while tearing the aluminum roofing from a farm house, a Chicago man discovered an oddly carved piece of wood in the dark recesses of the attic. Working beside a rural airstrip, an Illinois man dug up an intriguing find: an eight-foot long wooden airplane propeller. A little research online made him believe that his propeller might be from a TDR-1 plane, a pioneering U.S. drone plane from World War II.
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