UNTOLD STORIES OF WORLD WAR II, National Geographic Video, $19.98.
The stories of extraordinary individuals who risked their lives to carry out secret missions during World War II are detailed in this 60-minute video. The program explains how the U.S. Navy detected Japanese submarines off the coast of Hawaii just moments before the attack on Pearl Harbor, discloses why Japanese kamikazes sacrificed themselves to destroy U.S. battleships and aircraft carriers, and takes viewers behind German lines to reveal how daring undercover Norwegian resistance fighters set out to destroy the Nazis’ atomic bomb program.
