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America commemorates its fallen soldiers each year on Memorial Day, the last Monday in May. The day honors not only the dead, but all Americans who served in the time of war. Filmmaker and historian Ken Burns chronicles their stories in his new seven-part documentary, The War, a stark picture of World War Two.

“We concentrated just on the two theaters of war that Americans were principally involved in, ” says Burns. “The European (which will also include North Africa) and the Pacific. And we followed them simultaneously, chronologically.”

The documentary also follows what was happening in the United States “to see what people were like in the shared sacrifice, what they were doing for the war effort, how they were worrying, how they were grieving, how they were joyously reuniting with soldiers coming back,” Burns says. “It helps to fix the importance of people if you know who’s worried about them.”

Burns’s documentary does not focus on politicians, diplomats or generals, or on speeches or treaties. Instead, it throws light on common folk, recalling the grinding days of combat, endless nights, wide awake, waiting for the war to end, for loved ones to come home.

Every day, about 1000 World War II veterans die, their stories untold. In an effort to gather firsthand recollections of the American men and women who served during wartime, the Library of Congress, the largest library in the world, launched the project in 2000.

Ken Burns’s documentary is expected to spark wide interest in the Library of Congress Veterans’ Project. Burns has also attracted some negative publicity, for not including war time accounts of Hispanic-American heroes. But Burns says the voices he uses represent all Americans who were touched by the last global war: soldiers, sailors, medics, wives, children. It was everyone’s war.

After a WWII reenacting meeting we took all the photos and video shots, wrote a story and then made this film. It’s a fiction story placed in ETO campaign. Hauptman von Gruber is a commander of special german unit that tests new weapons. U.S. Army sends a combat group from 1st Infantry Division “Big Red One” in order to catch von Gruber. They follow von Gruber unit; after a quick combat in a village american group finally found body of von Gruber in a ruined paper factory.

This is a video we made for our AP US history class of the 1940s.

Don’t take anything too seriously, we wanted the vid funny… :]

This is a video we made for our AP US history class of the 1940s.

Don’t take anything too seriously, we wanted the vid funny… :]

This is our blooper wheel of the making of our APUSH video The 1940s.

Here is The 1940s vid: http://www.youtube.com/watch’v=K57gafTAUiE

song: Pump it - Black Eyed Peas

Fashion, Art and Style during the 1940s.

A tutorial on three different ’40s hairdos: Victory Rolls, ‘Ingrid Bergman’, and Betty Page…all achievable in under 5 minutes!

This is a german bunker, builded for the defence during WWII in Lithuania

Uboat periscope model reenactment