Cavalcade of America — 1945
45 episodes broadcast in 1945.
Abigail Duniway's fight for women's rights on the Oregon frontier.
Four captured American airmen resist Nazi interrogation.
Jessie Benton Fremont, devoted wife of the explorer John C. Fremont.
Banting and Best race to discover insulin and save a dying child.
A wartime program marking the Allied drive toward Berlin.
A lovable, hapless GI turns to the Red Cross for help.
The crew of a landing ship through several invasions.
A stingy old Irishman's change of heart over the Statue of Liberty.
April 2, 1945
My Wayward Parent
Dr. Katharine Neel Dale, a pioneering missionary doctor in Mexico.
Edward Kuder and the Filipinos who never stopped resisting.
An artist volunteers to sketch portraits of the wounded.
An Army weatherman in Greenland whose forecasts shape the war.
Navy Captain Robert Parsons builds a haven in the Pacific war.
A hotshot fighter pilot chafes at his reconnaissance assignment.
A wartime marriage endures the strain of long separations.
Judge Roy Bean, the self-styled law west of the Pecos.
Small-town life revolves around the telephone party line.
The Army deploys the new insecticide DDT to fight disease.
A day with a crew of combat cargo flyers.
Two American soldiers escape a German prison camp in occupied France.
Nellie Bly, the daredevil reporter who raced around the world.
The long conquest of epidemic disease.
How the Army Air Forces grew into a mighty force.
The hunt for a hidden Nazi radio transmitter.
A returning soldier becomes a stranger to his own children.
A returning veteran finds healing through a war orphan and his hometown.
Superstition grips the crew of the submarine USS Seawolf.
The Roeblings and the building of the Brooklyn Bridge.
A Montana cowboy turned sailor can't bear to leave his horse behind.
A Navy civilian helps develop a new guidance device.
The tender story of children's poet Eugene Field.
A whimsical Christmas tour of America's oddly named towns.
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