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The imbalance between technology and outdated traditional military tactics during World War I is examined, including poisonous-gas attacks and machine guns.
Japanese-American soldiers during WWII are profiled.
U.S. jet pilots of the Korean War are profiled and interviewed.
Examining U.S. air strategy during the Vietnam War, including the use of helicopters to transport soldiers and munitions. This is the true story of the Battle of the Ia Drang Valley. This was the first heavy face-to-face battle fought with the North Vietnamese and the first battle that cost heavy casualties of American lives. Led by Colonel Hal Moore of the famed 7th Cavalry, the First Air Cavalry division was the most lethal assault force ever assembled in Vietnam.
A history of airships and their use in military service. Included: the dominance of blimps, dirigibles and zeppelins during the two World Wars.
At the U.S. Navy's "Top Gun" school in Nevada, the most promising pilots in the world battle to find out who has what it takes to become the best of the best. In this fast-paced presentation, take to the skies with the Strike Fighter Tactics Instructor (SF TI) program and experience the training exercises that are forging a new generation of dogfighters. Meet with SFTI instructors who reveal what separates an ace from a regular pilot, and see how one of the most intense tfaining regimens has been refined over the years. Graduates recall their difficut days studying the tactics of the greatest pilots of all time, and intense footage captures the speed and skill, danger and daring of the students who push themselves to the very edge in the hopes of becoming a Navy elite. Far from the glamour of Hollywood, HISTORY (tm) presents an inside look at the high-profile U.S. Navy Fighter Weapons School and the pilots who compete in the hopes of becoming " Top Guns.""
They were young men, often only 18, sent halfway around the world against their will to fight in a conflict that many of them neither understood nor supported. When they returned home, they were not welcomed as heroes for their actions but shunned as pariahs. More than 20 years after the last soldiers left Vietnam, the memory of that war continues to haunt America. This compelling, often-painful program examines the life of the common soldier who served in Vietnam. Numerous former infantrymen and Marines share their memories of bitterness over being drafted, of the brutality of the fight, of poor morale and a harsh "welcome" home. Like no other program available, this is an intimate and revealing portrait of what life was like for American soldiers fighting the War in Vietnam. Travel through the jungle with the young soldiers who risked capture or death every day at the hands of an unseen guerrilla enemy. (Approx. 45min.)
