During the Korean War, a company of Marines is led by the Corps' first Chinese-American officer on a daring mission to rescue fellow soldiers trapped behind enemy lines and surrounded by a Chinese Communist enemy that outnumbers them four to one.
Going from 0 to 150 mph in 3 seconds, withstanding 3 Gs of force and taking off from what's often called "the most dangerous place on the planet" is just everyday life for an aircraft carrier pilot- and it's no different for the crew aboard the USS Enterprise. After being stationed in the Middle East for the last year, these pilots have seen heavy action in Afghanistan and Iraq. Now, finally, they're returning home. With amazing personal stories and real-time footage from missions, Smithsonian Channel has an exciting insider's peek at life onboard a wartime aircraft carrier.
Every graveyard tells a story, but few can talk to the living like Arlington National Cemetery. Visit the final home of war heroes from the Revolutionary War to 9/11 to the current struggle in Iraq. The American flag flies at half-staff more often than not as more than twenty-seven burials take place daily. Each section of the cemetery reflects a time in history, and each stone signifies a hero.
In 1979 Jan Scruggs had an idea to build a memorial honoring the 2.7 million Americans who served in the nation's longest and most controversial war.
Their mission was to destroy two cities in Japan, and that is what they did. Fifty years after the atomic bomb missions over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, surviving crewmen of the Enola Gay and Bockscar speak out about those fateful days at the end of a terrible war and how the weight of their task changed them—and the world—forever. Hear the airmen’s stories as only they can tell them, with interviews from the fiftieth reunion of the mission crews, rare archival footage, and invaluable personal recollections.
Three World War II veterans from “The Greatest Generation” are invited to participate in an “Honor Flight” to the National World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C. The celebration culminates in a visit to a monument built in their honor to commemorate their years of service, generating waves of pride and a flood of memories.
