The Perilous Fight: America's World War II in Color - Season 1 Episode 3 Wrath: D-Day-V-E-Day
2003-02-19
55 minutes.
Season - Episode
1
Season 1 Feb 12, 2003
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1 - 1Infamy: 1919-1942 Feb 12, 2003 -
1 - 2Battlefronts: 1942-1944 Feb 12, 2003
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1 - 3Wrath: D-Day-V-E-Day Feb 19, 2003
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1 - 4Triumph: The Pacific, 1943-1945 Feb 19, 2003
Overview
The third episode focuses on the European theater during the months between D-Day, in June 1944, and V-E Day, in May 1945. Among the many scenes captured by color footage are the seizure, two days before D-Day, of a German U-boat carrying Enigma code machines; the massive Allied assault on the beaches at Normandy; the jubilant welcome received by G.I.s after the liberation of Paris; freed American POWs burning their prison; Red Cross "doughnut girls"; the first Jewish Sabbath service conducted at the just-liberated Dachau concentration camp; and V-E Day celebrations following Germany's surrender.
Year 2003
Studio PBS
Director
Crew
Popularity 0.5537
Language English
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