Cavalcade of America — 1944
52 episodes broadcast in 1944.
A troublemaking sailor gets one last chance to redeem himself.
Ernie Pyle's frontline dispatches from the North Africa campaign.
A military policeman finds unexpected adventure in the war.
Two Army doctors and their volunteers under fire.
A city editor's grand gesture to win the girl he loves.
The formative youth of Abraham Lincoln.
A wartime valentine of songs and sketches with Frances Langford.
A wounded GI struggles to come home to his New England town.
A determined teenage girl finds her own way to aid the war effort.
Edward Kowalski's escape from Nazi concentration camps to freedom.
A USO accordion player entertains troops in the Pacific jungle.
War correspondent Royal Arch Gunnison, a prisoner of the Japanese.
An American Field Service ambulance driver at the front.
Francis Marion, the Swamp Fox, America's first commando.
A close call as a sculptor casts Thomas Jefferson's life mask.
Dr. Alexander Fleming and the discovery of penicillin.
The adventures of author Mark Twain.
A young American soldier's story, told from the front lines.
The building of the aircraft carrier USS Hornet.
May 29, 1944
Sing a War Song
Benedict Arnold's treason, seen through the eyes of his loyal aide.
Army chaplain William Taggart ministers to men in combat.
Michigan soldiers fight through the New Guinea jungle toward Tokyo.
Robert Morris, the financier who funded the American Revolution.
A combat soldier's story, echoing the spirit of the Liberty Bell.
A GI and his bulldozer work a small miracle in the Sicily invasion.
The wartime race to synthesize quinine.
An American infantry platoon on a deadly mission in Italy.
The women keeping the farms running while their men are at war.
A family collie enlists in the Army's war-dog corps.
The long life of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
How Corporal James Slayton earned the Medal of Honor.
Army doctors confront the hidden wounds of battle fatigue.
Julia Ward Howe and the writing of the Battle Hymn of the Republic.
Dr. Norman Bethune and the invention of the mobile blood bank.
Washington's ordeal through the terrible winter at Valley Forge.
Young Abraham Lincoln and his love for Ann Rutledge.
Submarine commander Howard Gilmore's final act of self-sacrifice.
November 6, 1944
Jane Adams of Hull House
The inventive genius of Benjamin Franklin.
Admiral George Dewey at the dawn of the Spanish-American War.
Anne Royall, the crusading Washington journalist.
A Chicago Red Cross volunteer brings comfort to men at the front.
The discovery of surgical anesthesia and the conquest of pain.
A Christmas music-and-story tour across America.
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