War logo"Triumphant Spirit: America's World War II Generation Speaks"

 

Triumphant Spirit is a series of programs that feature the stories of a generation that fought and won the Second World War. No matter how they fought the war or where - on the home front or the battlefield - each veteran featured in the series contributed valiantly to a victory that changed the 20th century. They tell their stories in their own words. They are stories of actions and deeds that not only shaped the outcome of the war, but the very world we live in today.

 

Viewing Triumphant Spirit

Triumphant Spirit: America's World War II Generation Speaks, a series produced by Brookdale's TV Production staff, features thirty-five (35) veterans. The program titles are listed below. The first completed video, Gilmon Brooks, was premiered at a celebration held January 29, 2002, at the Brookdale Performing Arts Center. The series programs are shown over COMCAST Cablevision Channel 21 on Wednesdays at 12noon and 8pm and on Sundays, 12noon and 8pm.
Specific videos can also be viewed online by clicking on the Example of video link iconicon beside the subject's name.

Guest Topic
Sam Bakal   Link to Sam Bakal video With the American Army in North Africa
Irving Bauman Photographing the Air War in the Pacific
Gilmon Brooks Link for Gilmon Brooks video Eye Witness, Iwo Jima
Geraldine Brandow Army Nursing, European Theater of War
Max Brudner Link to Max Brudner video A Cold Winter, The Battle of the Bulge
Charles Costigan Link for Charles and William Costigan video The China, India and Burma Theater
William Costigan Link for Charles and William Costigan video Battle for Aachen, Germany
William Foley Link to William Foley video Visions from the Foxhole: The Combat Art of William Foley
Peggy Flanagan Letters from My Marine Brother
Vincent Gorman From Omaha Beach to the Battle of the Bulge
Richard Gough Link to Ricard Gough video Holding The Northern Shoulder, Battle of the Bulge
Stuyvesant Hiller Tank Destroyers on the European Plain
Stan Hoffman Meeting the Russians on the Elbe
Milton Holmes Link to Milton Holmes video The Tuskegee Airmen Group
Ralph Jeffers Link to Ralph Jeffers video Pearl Harbor, December 7th 1941
Edwin Jennings Link to Edwin Jennings video Invasion, Iwo Jima, February 19, 1945
Samuel Kaye The U.S. Army Pictorial Service, Europe
John Krueger Link to John Krueger video Eye Witness, Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941
Leonard Lomell The U.S. Army Rangers and Pointe du Hoc, Omaha Beach, June 6, 1944
Hugh McMahon Link to Hugh McMahon video The German Air Blitz over England
Al Meserlin  Link to Al Meserlin video Memories of Ike's Personal Wartime Photographer
John Miller Link to John Miller video Air War over the South West Pacific
James Mitchell Convoy Duty, North Atlantic
Ted Narozanick Link to ted Narozanick video From Utah Beach, Normandy to Defeating Nazi Germany
Dorothy Pietro Link for Dororthy Pietro Letters from Her Airman Husband in Europe
Christine Raso Link for Christine Raso video Isolationist America and its Awakening
Gennaro Raso The Naval Battle for Okinawa
Zach Roberts Link for Zach Roberts video Captured - My Experiences as a POW
Joseph Robinson Merrill's Marauders
Peter Rubino Omaha Beach, D-Day, 6th of June 1944
James Serano With the Army in North Africa and in Italy
Peter Scoles Link for Peter Scoles video The Battle for the North Atlantic
Edward Turrell  With the Artillery in Europe, 1944-45
George Waple Link for George Waple video Recollections of a Countryboy Gone Soldiering
James Woolsey War Through my Eyes, 1917-1945
   
 Scoles  Gilmon Ted 
Peter Scoles Gilmon Brooks Ted Narozanick

 

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