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™ HISTORY PRESENTS TAKE A VETERAN TO SCHOOL DAY Through 2009 Their Eyes

Take a Veteran to School Day It’s not the war you know … links veterans of all ages with kids in our schools and communities. It’s the war they lived. Go to veterans.com to see what’s new By Tim Brady & James M. Tarbox for 2009 including a National Teach-In on Veterans HistoryHistory,, Thank a Veteran aatt Work DaDay,y, and the Veterans HistorHistoryy ProjecProjectt wiwithth ththee LiLibrarybrary of Congress.

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ust after dawn on Nov. 20, 1943, climbed down a rope ladder from a transport ship bobbing off the tiny island of Betio, part of the atoll in the South Pacific. He rolled into a waiting Higgins Boat and set out with a com- From the greatest generation to the latest generation, let’s support our vets! pany of U.S. Marines into what instantly became a hellish Jkilling zone. Japanese gunfire gushed from pillboxes facing

ROBERT SHERROD Thomas County, Ga. Pacific Theater. Even as a seasoned reporter for Time magazine, he is stunned by the tenacity and ferocity of Japanese forces and fears complacency back home.

ter and started wading ashore through the —features a handful of surviving veterans longer operational. But through state-of- chaos and destruction, he realized the source talking about their war experiences and oth- the-science technology allowing these of fire was indeed the Japanese entrench- ers represented by Hollywood “A-listers” “lost” films to be transferred to a digital ments on the island dead ahead. giving voice to hundreds of unpublished di- BERT STILES format, they again present vibrant color, Denver, Colo. European Theater. On the beach, Sherrod—one of the sub- aries and journals. But the highlight of the eye-popping detail, and sound effects that NOLEN MARBREY Self-described “dreamer” and jects whose wartime experiences is fea- Huntsville, Ala. Pacific Theater. series is the color footage gathered from “wistful thinker,” the creative will place the viewer virtually within the tured in the new History series WWII in A hard-livin’ good ole boy, intense among 3,000 hours of “lost” film discovered writer enlisted with misgivings action beside those who lived it. after Pearl Harbor to become —took cover with a group of Marines combat chastens his party-hearty in barns, attics, vaults, museums, and per- HD demeanor. Severely wounded in a bomber and fighter pilot. near a sea wall. From there he moved to a battle, his descriptions of combat sonal collections around the world. Finding the ‘lost’ footage tank-like amphtrack vehicle and, with his are brutal and violent. History, with Reda Productions, has Steve Bergson of Kent, England, is a long- heart racing, began recording in his mind’s been chasing down, uncovering, accumulat- time researcher of archival military footage. eye the horrors around him: a Marine shot tling images they overwhelmed Sherrod’s today, regardless of whether we were alive ing, transferring, and restoring old film. Though not trained in the work—he was an between eyes that bulged instantly from senses. It seems it would have been impos- JACK WERNER in the 1940s, the memories and impres- WWII in HD will feature the color footage English-lit student—an internship working the horrific abuse; a Japanese shell scor- sible for his conscious mind to take it all in. Vienna, Austria. Pacific Theater. sions of World War II are largely etched in from the vast archives of both History and in the BBC archives ignited his interest. ing a direct hit on a landing vehicle and After three hours on the beach and back Jewish émigré from Hitler’s black and white. Most of the moving pic- Reda Productions as well as other films Austria, he joins the Army And he harbored a longtime interest in au- sending parts—vehicular and human—in near the amphtrack, Sherrod was finally determined to fight fascism. tures we’ve seen of the war are grainy, which were sourced from public and dio/visual realms which the internship all directions; waves of immobile fish float- able to pull a soaking wet notebook from He finds fellow GIs’ independent cracked, and fading black-and-white news- private collections held in more than 35 further fueled. ing by a pier, shocked to death by the im- his gear and set it on the hub of the vehicle. streak bewildering, but learns reel images. Few people even realize that countries. And much of that was dis- He says the film research world is rel- to respect it. pact of shells landing in the water. There The pages dried quickly in the tropical sun, color photography and film existed in the covered through old-fashioned dig- atively sparsely populated, and members were so many violent, graphic, and star- and the paper wrinkled in the searing heat. World War II era. Of course, there have ging and—in some cases—luck. of its tight-knit community are in con- Two corpsmen crawled over the seawall been numerous WWII-based Hollywood To find and uncover this rare stant contact sharing info about private to move a wounded Marine out of the line of movies made in color and viewed by mil- footage, the network, again, in caches of vintage film they’ve stum- fire. Watching the three of them, Sherrod lions, but those are not real. Viewed in the partnership with Reda, tapped es- bled upon or heard about. Through shook and forced himself to do what he’d context of factual history for all of us ex- tablished ongoing relationships contacts he made while working eight set out for that morning. “I felt that I should cept those who experienced it first hand, with a variety of private collectors, years ago on a project about the Irish THEY LIVED IT! do some reporting,” he would write later. So World War II seemed destined to remain a museums, and small archival houses diaspora around the world, Bergson even in the midst of the overwhelming ter- “black-and-white” conflict. Until now. around the world, many of which lack the learned of a unique, privately held collec- WWII in HD highlights the stories of a dozen combat veterans who represent a cross- ror and chaos, he was compelled to get the Two years ago, History made the de- resources to properly preserve their col- section of the personnel involved. Their words give voice to the sights and sounds as they name of the Marine being pulled to safety. cision to not only launch a worldwide lections. In some cases, they can’t even experienced them, and as will be revealed in the ground-breaking 10-par t documentar y. “It was a very difficult name,” Sherrod search for original color footage, but to view their collections because would write, “and I know I didn’t get it then restore and ultimately preserve this they lack the right equipment, the sea as the grunts fought to gain the shore. right, even after he had spelled it for me footage. They called upon one of their or what they have is no For two hours before crawling into the twice, but in my notebook it appears as Pfc. longtime production partners Scott Reda, landing boat, Sherrod—a correspondent for N. Laverntine, Jr.” of Lou Reda Productions, who, with His- and magazines who covered the Sherrod, who died in 1994, went on to tory’s Executive Producers David McKil- CHARLES SCHEFFEL (WITH WIFE RUTH) Time Life Enid, Okla. European Theater. Pragmatic and post-war Pacific region before returning write the book Tarawa: The Story of a Bat- lop and Mike Stiller, became one of the hard-working, his naïve illusions are shattered stateside to work as managing editor of tle, published in 1944 and still in print. His driving forces of WWII in HD. The 10- in combat where he learns merely surviving

ALL PHOTOS COURTESY LOU REDA PRODUCTIONS ALL PHOTOS COURTESY LOU REDA trumps the ephemeral glory of victory. the Saturday Evening Post—watched from vivid descriptions of that first day and hour series premiering in November will aboard the transport ship that same tiny is- many more in the battle for the island—one feature astonishing, never-before-seen land as those pillboxes were pounded by of the bloodiest of the war—make it clear color—and now high-definition—footage bombs and fire from wave after wave of the sights and sounds he encountered were of the war. The colossal production— American planes. Salvos of thundering shells etched in his memory. The mental pictures which tells the story of the war from the from every big gun in the U.S. Navy rained remained real, sharp, colorful, deep, and viewpoint of those who fought it and lived down on them. That the Japanese not only permanent. And so it is for the soldiers, ARCHIE SWEENEY it—is described as “history at its core.” survived the bombardment but were now Marines, sailors, airmen, nurses, corre- Franklin County, N.Y. European “We were going for a Band of Brothers laying down a withering barrage at first ROCKIE BLUNT spondents, and others who fought and Theater, North Africa. The quiet look,” Reda says, “but this is real footage of Worcester, Mass. European and unassuming young farmer seemed impossible. Sherrod thought the Theater. An aspiring jazz lived the literal hell on earth we know as is the first person in his town real characters. This is immersive, first- hailstorm of bullets ripping the ocean waves drummer with a devil-may-care World War II. For them the memories of to be drafted. Utterly unprepared, person stuff; you’ll feel what these guys must be coming from the Marines them- attitude, what he witnesses in the war are very “high definition.” his letters home reveal an felt. The sound design alone is incredible.” combat ignites a new innocence and naïveté about The series—narrated by actor Gary Sinise selves. But as he stepped into chest-deep wa- appreciation for humanity. PRODUCTIONS ALL PHOTOS COURTESY LOU REDA GETTY IMAGES; (OPENING PAGE) But for the vast majority of Americans the scope of the war.

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Pearl Harbor (Dec. 7, 1941) Japan’s Midway (June 4-7, 1942) Disastrous Stalingrad (July 17, 1942-Feb. 2, Anzio (Jan. 22-May 25, 1944) Battle of the Bulge (Dec. 16, 1944- Great Battles of World War II surprise attack on the U.S. fleet in Japanese attempt to threaten 1943) The bloodiest battle ever American forces are trapped January 1945) This is the last Hawaii instigates America’s long- by invading the island of Midway; they fought and the worst German defeat for four months until troops significant German counter attack of Invasion of Invasion of France (May 10- awaited entry into the war. lose four aircraft carriers while the U.S. since the war began. break through the German the war. Though the German effort Poland (Sept. 1- June 22, 1940) Germany invades Wake Island (Dec. 7-24, 1941) loses one. It would be Japan’s final Kasserine Pass (Feb. 19-25, 1943) defenses in Italy. Anzio was fails, it keeps Allied troops and 29, 1939) France through Belgium and The Concurrent with the attack on Pearl offensive in the Pacific. German and Italian forces in Tunisia perhaps one of the the Allies’ supplies stymied for weeks. It also Ill-equipped, the Netherlands. Allied armies are Harbor, the Japanese invade on Dec. Guadalcanal (Aug. 7, 1942-Feb. 9, launch a final attack against the biggest blunders. likely hastened Germany’s surrender. Polish army overwhelmed, and the British 24 and take the site of a half- 1943) One of the largest and longest Americans; though suffering early Normandy (June 6, 1944) Okinawa (April 1-June 21, 1945) offers no match evacuate from Dunkirk. France completed U.S. air and submarine multi-force engagements in the Pacific. setbacks, U.S. forces recover and Invasion of Western Europe by Largest amphibious assault in the for the German deploys the bulk of its army to base. U.S. troops are captured and The Japanese defeat at Guadalcanal instigate a retreat of German forces. the Allied forces, also known Pacific Theater, and one of the bloodiest and Russian the German border, but is unable sent to and Japan. ends the Japanese dominance in the Tarawa (Nov. 20-23, 1943) Invading as D-Day. The invasion, known battles of the war. invading forces. to stop the German blitzkrieg. Moscow (November 1941-January South Pacific. Americans engage Japanese forces as Operation Overlord, is the (Feb. 19-March 26, 1945) The invasion is Battle of Britain (July 10-Oct. 1942) German attempt to capture the El Alamein (Oct. 23-Nov. 4, 1942) in one of the fiercest and bloodiest turning point in the war. The most intense, bloody, and generally 31, 1940) Germany’s hopes to city fails in the face of Russian Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery’s battles in the history of the U.S. compact battle in the Pacific. recognized as wipe out the Royal Air Force counter-offensives and severe winter defeat of the Germans in Egypt is his Marine Corps. the beginning before its planned invasion of storms that paralyze the German Army greatest achievement. of World War II. England fail. in the field. 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945

Berlin, Sept. 27, 1940. Tripartite Berlin, April 30, 1945. Hitler Key Events of WWII Pact between commits suicide. Germany, Italy, and Berlin, May 7, 1945. As World War II played out in Europe, Africa, and Asia, Japan signed. German High Command and behind-the-scenes meetings among world leaders worked representatives sign Germany, Sept. 3, 1939. unconditional surrender. toward opposing ends, life at home took on new urgency Britain and France declare war on Germany. and immediacy, all in support of the war effort. Poland, Sept. 1, 1939. Germany On the Homefront invades Tokyo, July 18, Battle of Britain Poland. 1944. Tojo falls from power as Japanese Bond Drives Between November 1942 and London, May 10, 1940. prime minister. Chamberlain resigns; Churchill December 1945 Americans invested Moscow approximately $150 billion in bonds to finance takes over as prime minister. Moscow AT EASE An American soldier, with a rifle poised on his lap, grabs a nap World War II. Mass media (radio, newspapers, London Berlin Warsaw on a pile of rocks in Italy in May 1944. and magazines) Stalingrad Normandy Battle of the Bulge publicized the Paris importance of Tokyo, Aug. 14, 1945. every citizen’s Emperor Hirohito announces New York Japan’s unconditional surrender. support in the France, May 10, 1940. Washington war effort; the Germany invades France. Tehran campaigns were Wash., D.C., March Kasserine Pass Tokyo a success. 30, 1942. MacArthur appointed Supreme El Alamein Midway Okinawa Iwo Jima Pearl Harbor Allied Commander South West Pacific Area. Wake Island Manila Leyte Gulf Women Tehran, Nov. 28, Enter the “GREYHOUNDS 1943. Conference of Tarawa Workforce OF THE SEA” Allied leaders opens; With increasing Increasingly sophisticated ends Dec. 1. numbers of during the course of the war, men sent off to Victory Gardens As part of U.S. Navy destroyers played Guadalcanal fight the war, the war effort, the government pivotal roles in both the the number of rationed foods like sugar, butter, Atlantic and Pacific theaters. women hired to milk, cheese, eggs, coffee, fill those meat, and canned goods. With positions and labor and transportation build arsenal shortages frustrating harvest to support the and shipping produce to war effort market, the government turned soared. Some to its citizens and encouraged ISLAND 3 million women worked in the war industries them to plant “Victory SUPPLIES alone, and others found work to Gardens” to provide their own American troops carry supplement home incomes, a trend that fruits and vegetables. Nearly LOOKOUT pallets and supplies 20 million Americans An Alied from landing craft would continue in the post-war years. GREAT BATTLES: COURTESY LOU REDA PRODUCTIONS; GETTY IMAGES (4); NATIONAL answered the call. soldier keeps onto the beach at ARCHIVES (2). KEY EVENTS: NORMAN ROCKWELL / CORBIS; MINNESOTA HISTORICAL an eye out for Guadalcanal Island SOCIETY / CORBIS; BETTMANN / CORBIS; COURTESY LOU REDA PRODUCTIONS (2); GETTY IMAGES (3). SOURCES: STRATEGYPAGE.COM; MEMORY.LOC.GOV; BUILDING MORALE An unidentified USO performer sings for American enemy planes. in 1943. DEFENSELINK.MIL; OKSTATE.EDU; LIVINGHISTORYFARM.ORG; DK; NPS.GOV soldiers aboard a troop transport ship in May 1944.

tion in Dublin. As he began research for WWII in HD, a contact at the Irish Film In- stitute told him about a lot of interesting footage emerging from private sources. Bergson undertook the detective work at which he is so adept, and as a result Dubliner Ian Spring’s attic belched forth private 8mm film shot by a German soldier in Erwin Rommel’s Afrika Korps, footage of Japanese “war brides” celebrating their weddings to American GIs shortly after the over the Rhine, captured in March 1945. JIMMIE KANAYA end of hostilities, and footage of German Footage also was found at the Marine Portland, Ore. European Theater. The son of interned Japanese infantrymen training on bicycles. JACK YUSEN Historical Center at Quantico, Va., and the immigrants, mistrusted by his Like much of the other source footage New York, N.Y. Pacific Theater. National WWII Museum in New Orleans. fellow troops, and captured by used in , Spring’s stock was in Brooklyn-raised, he couldn’t be Not only were these treasures in danger of the Germans, his many escape ition quality. He says that, ironically, what the technology has changed since the ’40s, WWII in HD more out of place than in the attempts fail until he is liberated a sad state of deterioration, but the techni- Navy, where his seemingly “happy- being lost forever because of their deterio- at war’s end. made the process possible was that the orig- the human ear has not. We can record a cians at Reda Productions successfully re- go-lucky” outlook proves to be his rating condition, but even film discovered inal photography was done on film. “If this machine gun today, or a plane flying over, stored and transferred the film. greatest asset. in relatively pristine condition could not be were shot on 1980s-era video tape, it would and it will sound the same as it did then. It The 3,000 hours of source footage for viewed because equipment to view it with have been impossible to convert to HD,” he really adds to the experience” of watching WWII in HD comes from widely varied no longer existed. It was not unusual for said. Nearly everything he had to work with the footage. “Producers had not previously sources around the globe, including caches Reda technicians to have highly fragile, ir- was shot on 16mm or 35mm film—and a put in this kind of effort.” found in Holland, Norway, the Baltic states, replaceable film break during restoration. small percentage on 8mm—which was treat- “We do have all of the weapons and ma- Hungary, Poland, and Russia among many Still more WWII in HD sources feature ed similarly to the way photo shops convert chinery categorized by model, etc.,” Lu- other places. Bergson notes that some intense combat footage—such as that taken 35mm color slides to digital. miere explained, “and often we stick to the footage returned to the home country of by Norman Hatch and reported by Lifemag- “HD is all about picture resolution,” Lu- authentic sound. But we also take creative the photographer, and either kept person- azine’s Sherrod—depicting “as the soldiers miere (no relation to the famous film-pio- liberties for maximum impact. Ask any ally or contributed to its national archive lived it” warfare including tank battles, naval neering Lumiere Brothers) said, defining large Hollywood-budget film sound de- (though some of the film discovered in exchanges at sea, and Kamikaze attacks. the minimums as 1080 pixels horizontally signers; you’ll learn they use anything and Russia was simply pilfered by Russian An extensive private collection owned and 720 vertically. “And with this film, we’re everything to generate the emotional im- troops before they left Germany for home). SHELBY WESTBROOK by Mike Lanier of Clarksville, Ga., features already at resolution above even the mini- pact desired. Breaking glass, sucking sound Marked Tree, Ark. European scenes of everyday life in the United States from fire, etc. That’s how you win Emmys! He also recalls a cache that belonged to a Theater. He finds relative openness mum requirements for HD.” In fact, he said, Russian movie-house projectionist who growing up, but military life opens during the war years. HD is arguably of lower resolution “quali- “The interesting thing is that when we simply retained possession of footage the his eyes to true racial injustice. As Bergson notes, while some of the ty” than the best 35mm film footage. “We show cuts to our veterans, their first re- state had declared “off limits” because the He distinguishes himself as a sources for were “official” gov- sponse is ‘Wow! That’s exactly how it member of the Tuskegee Airmen. WWII in HD take the film and scan it frame by frame. We official propaganda line had changed. ernmental and military film, others were can get really high resolution, and it’s now sounded!’ even though we enhanced the The 8th Air Force Museum in Savannah, privately filmed and in some cases, handed ‘digital’ quality. Then we apply scratch re- sounds tremendously.” Ga., houses more than 300 reels of film with down among generations of families. These moval and color correction and other fancy no equipment to view it. This film includes private owners often proved reluctant to processes that essentially just clean up the Real stories of the real characters pristine footage of aerial combat as the 8th turn over evidence of their ancestors’ war- film and make it a lot more appealing.” The broad story of History’s WWII in HD Air Force gained dominance in the skies time activities until they were impressed by As to the re-creation of the sounds of is told through the experiences of 12 main over Europe, as well as domestic scenes like the historical importance of the project. war, Lumiere noted that some 90 percent characters who served during the war. All airmen writing home, crewmembers play- In addition to salvaging the priceless, of the film he worked with had no original made a record of their duty in a variety of ing with English children, and off-duty fly- imperiled combat footage, Reda also called sound at all, and the remainder was not written media from diaries, to memoirs, to ers riding bicycles through villages. on digital sound experts to enhance the au- JUNE WANDREY very good; “certainly not high-fidelity journalistic entries. Along with Sherrod’s Film held by the Army Heritage Center dio experience for the series. Wautoma, Wis. European Theater. sound.” So he and his technicians tapped stories for Time and Life are narratives de- in Carlisle, Pa., included some 400 reels fea- The fun-loving nurse from the into their vast library of authentic sound tailing the lives of Army nurse June Wan- Elizabeth, N.J. European & Pacific Midwest confronts hunger, turing gunnery footage taken aboard Allied Theaters. Draft-ineligible, his news Sight and sound in HD exhaustion, weather, and sickness effects to match the images on the screen. drey, who served from the beginnings of aircraft in the Pacific, training films show- reporting job gains him access to Frederic Lumiere of Lumiere Media, in sub- during continuous weeks of “We have some of the best sound de- the war in North Africa to the liberation of casing German weaponry, and footage of the front line. His Guadalcanal urban Philadelphia, worked with History 18-hour days. Endless misery signers in the business who create these the prison camps in Germany; Shelby West- Diary opens the public’s eyes to is no match, however, for her

Remagan, Germany’s, Ludendorff Bridge the harsh realities of combat. to convert the “lost” footage into high-defin- ALL PHOTOS COURTESY PRODUCTIONS LOU REDA life-saving good nature. amazing soundscapes,” he said. “Although brook, a young African American from

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A BRIEF HISTORY OF COLOR FILM

hat so much color footage of World War II combat one-strip color film for amateur users. While the quality of this even exists might surprise some viewers, but color footage was not as rich as the 35mm film using Technicolor, by technology has been used in filmmaking since the whittling the coloring process down to a single strip, the film elim- earliest days of the medium. In its first incarnations, inated the chief stumbling block to shooting color film: the bulky, Tcolor film was manipulated through “additive” cumbersome, and expensive cameras required for creating Tech- processes, principally through tinting, shading, and hand-coloring. nicolor footage. Home movie-making became commonplace with These were laborious and expensive techniques, which meant that the development and increasing affordability of these films. most Hollywood films and virtually all amateur reels were left in A variety of 35mm Technicolor and 8mm and 16mm single- the original black-and-white. strip films were used extensively by amateurs and professionals By the 1930s, the Technicolor Corporation had created a “sub- during World War II to record the earth-shattering events of those tractive” process of coloring film. This technique used color filters years as well as life on the home front. Even so, it’s repor ted that by and three strips of film rolling within the camera to sor t out and im- 1947 only 12 percent of American films were produced in color. print a full pallet of colors. The rich shades of film produced by the The advent and later explosion of television drove that number to Technicolor process are evident in numerous Hollywood films of more than 50 percent by 1954. the era, including G o n e W i t h t h e W i n d and The Wizard of Oz, the lat- HISTORY, working with Reda Productions, has collected, restored, ter so notable because of the mid-film switch from black-and- and digitized many thousands of hours of these films over the white Kansas to vibrantly colored Oz. past three decades. Aside from the many U.S. sources tapped for At about the same time, Eastman Kodak in the United States footage, the archives of 36 different nations were scoured and and the Agfa company in Germany were creating 8mm and 16mm provided source footage for H ISTORY’s WWII in HD.—TB

Marked Tree, Ark., who became a member Matthew Ginsburg and historical consult- of the famed Tuskegee Airmen; Jimmie ant Dr. Don Miller. The series is executive Kanaya, the son of Japanese immigrants, produced for History by David McKillop who served in the U.S. Army and was im- and Michael Stiller. prisoned in Europe; and Jack Werner, a For the filmmakers, making WWII in Jewish émigré who escaped from Austria HD has been painstaking yet exciting work. before the war and wound up fighting in “Some of this material hadn’t been looked the Pacific Theater rather than against at since soon after the war,” says producer Hitler and the Nazis—the man and people Liz Reph. “There were times when we’d sit he most despised. down to view some film and have no idea WWII in HD is narrated by Gary Sinise, what we were about to see.” while stories of the 12 people profiled will be “Whose words could be more powerful voiced by Hollywood talent, including: than those who were there?” says historian Justin Bartha as Jack Werner; Rob Corddry Miller, a consultant on the project. as Rockie Blunt; Tim DeKay as Richard Tre- After more than 65 years, Robert Sher- gaskis; Mark Hefti as Archie Sweeney; James rod and Norman Hatch are once more unit- Kyson Lee as Jimmie Kanaya; Ron Liv- NORMAN HATCH ed on the beach at Tarawa. The intentions Marine Corps photographer ingston as Charles Scheffel; LL Cool J as Norman Hatch led a group of with which they set out that November day Shelby F. Westbrook; Rob Lowe as Robert photographers who captured in 1943—to faithfully record the events on Sherrod; Josh Lucas as Bert Stiles; Amy images of the Battle of Tarawa. that small island in order to honor all those Some of the most spectacular Smart as June Wandrey; Steve Zahn as Nolen combat footage ever shot, it was who served their country that day—have Marbrey; and Jason Ritter as Jack Yusen. used in the film With the Marines been realized for a new generation in a way WWII in HD is executive produced by on Tarawa, which won the 1944 they likely could never have imagined. His- Academy Award for Outstanding Lou and Scott Reda and Liz Reph of Lou Documentary Short Subject tory ’s WWII in HD will virtually put us on

Reda Productions, with executive producer (see it on YouTube.com). the beaches of Tarawa at their side. (3); BETTMANN / CORBIS (2) ARCHIVES (2); GETTY IMAGES NATIONAL OVERLEAF: PRODUCTIONS; COURTESY LOU REDA THIS PAGE:

THROUGH THEIR EYES From the attack on Pearl Harbor (above), which drew the United States into World War II, to the Japanese surrender aboard the USS Missouri (right), World War II in HD presents the sights 40 THE HISTORY CHANNEL MAGAZINE NOVEMBER / DECEMBER 2009 thehistorychannelclub.com and sounds of the global conflict—and life on the home front—as they’ve never been seen before.