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FLORIDA WAR DIARIES: WWII REMEMBERED DVDS AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE
Florida War Diaries: WWII Remembered DVD
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WFSU-TV's Florida War Diaries: WWII Remembered examines what the Greatest Generation experienced in North Florida during the second World War.  The history of the Big Bend unfolds by way of personal stories, photographs, and rarely seen film footage. Florida War Diaries: WWII Remembered tells the complete local story -- experiences encountered from the moment the news that Pearl Harbor had been bombed, to the dangerous and sometimes deadly training at Camp Gordon Johnston in Carrabelle, Florida -- real people remember real moments that changed their lives, our state, and the nation forever.
    This program includes:
  • German U-Boats sink ship near Apalachicola
  • Tuskegee Airmen train at Tallahassee's Dale Mabry Field
  • Featured information on North Florida Training Site known as "Hell-By-The-Sea"
  • POW stories

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Bonus Features:

  • Friendship with General Omar Bradley - Vivian Matthews Hess remembers how as a child she came to know and spend time with the General while he was stationed at Camp Gordon Johnston. 
  • Building of Camp Gordon Johnston - Future Tallahassee Mayor James Ford was still a teenager when he was hired for 50 cents a day to help clear brush and build structures for the new camp.
  • Rules and Regulations - Burwell Harrison remembers what it was like to be young and in the military. He tells about one of the stranger orders he was required to follow.
  • Normandy Landing - Medic Marvin Kruse ended up injured shortly before his group landed at Normandy, but that didn't stop him from hitting the beach with his fellow solders.
  • Last day as a Prisoner of War in Germany - Fred McMahon was captured by the Germans in 1945 during the battle in Hurtgen Forest.  He remembers the day he found out he was no longer a POW.
  • Return to Dog Island - George Scala and Steve Sabol recount their training at Camp Gordon Johnston, Florida. They tour the area and talk about what it was like to practice landings on Dog Island.
  • "How to Swim in 10 Easy Lessons" - Government newsreel filmed at Wakulla Springs during the war about Camp Gordon Johnston soldiers learning to swim through fire, to maneuver through the water while live bullets are fired around them, and to jump off the three story platform at the Springs.
  • "Glamour Girls of 1943" - Government newsreel that encourages women to join the workforce and help out the war effort. 
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