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Striking Distance
Title
Striking Distance [electronic resource (video)] / A&E Television Networks, LLC.
Published
New York, N.Y. : Infobase, [2010], c2009.
Physical Description
1 streaming video file (45 min.) : sd., col.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on November 12, 2010.
Films on Demand is distributed by Infobase for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
Closed-captioned.
Title from distributor's description.
Access and use
Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
In this program, U.S. ground troops storm the Philippines. In addition, two heroic veterans - an airman forced to bail out over Europe and a sailor who had to abandon ship - recall their terrifying experiences.
Variant and related titles
Films on demand.
Other formats
Originally produced: A&E Television Networks, LLC, 2009.
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 20, 2019
Series
World War II in HD
System details note
Mode of access: Internet.
System requirements: FOD playback platform.
Audience
10 & up.
Contents
Introduction to Striking Distance and Recap of Point of No Return (1:47)
Bataan Death March: General MacArthur (2:01)
Recapturing Leyte (4:10)
Tuskegee Airmen (2:10)
Dogfights Over Blechhammer Poland (3:12)
General MacArthur Returns to Leyte: October 20, 1944 (3:55)
America's Only All Japanese Army Combat Unit (2:09)
442nd Regimental Combat Team Ordered to Violate Geneva Convention (3:49)
Tito's Partisans Rescue Tuskegee Airmen (2:26)
Sinking of USS Samuel B. Roberts (3:51)
Prisoner of War: Japanese American Jimmie Kanaya of 442nd Regimental Combat Team (3:39)
Off Samar: Sharks (2:00)
Behind Enemy Lines: Yugoslavia: October 1944 (2:57)
Rescue at Sea: Crew of the USS Samuel B Roberts (3:50)
Credits and Wrap-Up: Striking Distance (0:48)
Videorecording number
43221s Infobase
43228 Infobase
Genre/Form
Educational films.
Internet videos.
Also listed under
Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)
Infobase.
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