November is Military Family Month
Accreditations & Sponsors
For 145 years, the Armed Services YMCA has enriched the quality of life for
junior enlisted military personnel and their families.
The Armed Services YMCA is proud to be a partner in HISTORY's Take a Veteran to School initiative
and WWII in HD programming. This ten-hour event runs for five consecutive nights beginning Sunday,
November 15 at 9/8C. WWII in HD is the first-ever World War II documentary presented in full,
immersive HD color. Using footage never before seen by most Americans--converted to HD for
unprecedented clarity--viewers will experience the war as if they were actually there, surrounded
by the real sights and sounds of the battlefields.
This visually astonishing landmark series presents the story of World War II through the eyes of 12 Americans who experienced the war firsthand.
Viewers will hear the story of Army nurse June Wandrey, who served from the beginning of the war
in North Africa to the liberation of the camps in Germany. They will meet Shelby Westbrook, a
young African American from Toledo, who became a member of the famed Tuskegee Airmen; Jimmie Kanaya,
the son of Japanese immigrants, who served in the U.S. Army and was imprisoned in Europe; and
Jack Werner, a Jewish émigré who escaped from Austria before the war and wound up fighting not
against Hitler and the hated Nazis, but in the Pacific Theater.