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Americans mobilize for total war at home and overseas. Factories hum around the clock, while in North Africa and then Italy, inexperienced GIs learn how to fight. Meanwhile, in the skies over Europe, thousands of American airmen gamble their lives against preposterous odds on daylight bombing missions.
  • Runtime: 1 hour 55 minutes
  • Original air date: September 24, 2007
  • Network: PBS
 
  
 
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Episode 2, "When Things Get Tough: January 1943 - December 1943"
Synopsis: Americans mobilize for total war at home and overseas. Factories hum around the clock, while in North Africa and then Italy, inexperienced GIs learn how to fight. Meanwhile, in the skies over Europe, thousands of American airmen gamble their lives against preposterous odds on daylight bombing missions.
Original air date: September 24, 2007
Runtime: 1 hour 55 minutes
ASIN: B002W65HVM
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #97,645 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
The War: A Ken Burns Film
Synopsis: THE WAR, a seven-part documentary series directed and produced by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, explores the history and horror of the Second World War from an American perspective by following the fortunes of so-called ordinary men and women who become caught up in one of the greatest cataclysms in human history.
Season year: 2007
Network: PBS
ASIN: B002W65HIA
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