The imbalance between technology and outdated traditional military tactics during World War I is examined, including poisonous-gas attacks and machine guns.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.
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.)