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1) Seal team
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Master chief Devon Mackefy (Gamble) heads the five-man SEAL team, including rookie petty officer Michael Davis (Davis), that is supposed to meet an Iraqi informant on a reconnaissance mission behind enemy lines. When an Iraqi boy is accidentally caught in the crossfire with enemy soldiers, Mackefy is brought face-to-face with the mental wounds and guilt surrounding the death of his own young son who was killed months before in a traffic accident....
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"While the rain and mist of an early March moved over the valley, then-Sergeant First Class Bennie Adkins and sixteen other Green Berets found themselves holed up in an undermanned and unfortified position at Camp A Shau, a small training and reconnaissance camp located right next to the infamous Ho Chi Minh Trail, North Vietnam's major supply route. And with the rain came the North Vietnamese Army in force. Surrounded 10-to-1, the Green Berets endured...
5) Last to die: a defeated empire, a forgotten mission, and the last American killed in World War II
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"On August 18, 1945--three days after Japan announced it would cease hostilities and surrender-- U.S. Army Air Forces Sergeant Anthony J. Marchione bled to death in the clear, bright sky above Tokyo. Just six days after his twentieth birthday, Tony Marchione died like so many before him in World War II-- quietly, cradled in the arms of a buddy who was powerless to prevent his death. Though heartbreaking for his family, Marchione's death would have...
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Set on retaking the Philippines ever since his ignominious flight from the islands in 1942, General Douglas MacArthur needed a first-rate intelligence-gathering unit. Out of thousands, only 138 men were chosen: the best, toughest, and most fit men the army had to offer. Their task: silently slip onto Japanese-held islands, stalk through the thick jungles, and assess enemy locations, conditions, morale, and troop strength, all while remaining undetected....
8) Recon
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Four American soldiers set out on the grueling ascent of an Italian mountainside in the closing days of World War II. Haunted by their evil sergeant's cold-blooded murder of a young woman and with only an old Italian man of uncertain loyalties as their guide.
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Robert Shaw and Harrison Ford star as fearless commandos on a deadly mission in the darkest days of World War II. Hitler₂s armies are storming through Europe, annihilating all opposition in their path, but U.S. Colonel Barnsby plots to strike a crippling blow to the brutal Nazi forces. To succeed, he₂ll need the help of the most skilled and lethal soldiers in the world: the squad led by Captain Mallory and explosives specialist Corporal Miller,...
15) 3D spies of WWII
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During World War II, Hitler's scientists developed terrifying new weapons of mass destruction. Allied intelligence pored over millions of air photos shot over German territory by specially converted, high-flying Spitfires. With 3D graphics that recreate exactly what the photo spies saw, NOVA tells the suspenseful, previously untold story of air photo intelligence that played a vital role in defeating Hitler.
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Bataan: A U.S. Army sergeant fights a rear-guard action in the Philippine jungle in order to cover MacArthur's retreat. His platoon of 13 soldier, including a few veterans, a couple of green recruits, and other assortments of soldiers and officer types, are sensable enough to follow the sergeant's judgment. The group is whittled down through misadventure, disease, and skirmishes with the ever-advancing Japanese, till only a handful remain for a still-shattering...