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In the near future, the Navy develops a stealth fighter plane. On board piloting the jet is an artificial intelligence computer. The jet is placed on an aircraft carrier in the Pacific to learn combat manuevers from the human pilots aboard. But when the computer develops a mind of its own, it's the humans who are charged with stopping it before it incites a war.
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Veteran seaman Quinton McHale is commissioned into the Navy Reserve at the start of WWII. He becomes Skipper of Torpedo Patrol (PT) Boat #73, stationed on the island of Taratupa in the Pacific. Assigned to his command are six free-spirited, good-hearted swabbies who love to have fun. McHale and his men are constant irritants to their base commander, Captain Wallace B. Binghamton. Binghamton is forever trying to find a way to get rid of McHale and...
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Navy flight navigator Lt. Burnett and his pilot are shot down over Bosnia during a routine reconnaissance mission after seeing something the Serbian forces didn't want them to see. Once on the ground, deep inside enemy territory, the chase is on as they are tracked by rebel forces who want to make sure they are dead. Meanwhile back on the aircraft carrier, the commander, who wants to mount a rescue mission, must play political games to make it happen....
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"Pug Henry embarks on a perilous mission when President Roosevelt places him in command of 16 naval destroyers 'unofficially' escorting a shipment to war-torn England. Meanwhile, Natalie Jastrow Henry, who is pregnant and trapped in Italy with her uncle, is horrified to uncover evidence of Hitler's 'Final Solution' and fears, like so many others, that this solution may include her and her family"--DVD sleeve.
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"Spring, 1939. The winds of war that will soon engulf the world are starting to stir. It's also a time of change for United States Navy Commander Victor 'Pug' Henry, who, accompanied by his wife Rhoda, arrives in Berlin to assume his new appointment as naval attaché to the U.S. Embassy. Pug is unaware that he and his family, scattered around the globe, from Poland to the Pacific, are about to experience the most harrowing and adventurous years of...
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"The storm breaks in Europe as the German-Soviet pact, one that Pug had warned American officials about, has come to pass, prompting U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt to request that Pug be his eyes and ears in Germany. Among the millions affected by Hitler's lightning-fast sweep into Poland are Pug's son, Byron, and the woman Byron loves, Natalie Jastrow, the niece of Jewish-American author Aaron Jastrow and fiancée of American diplomat Leslie Slote"--DVD...
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"In Germany, a murderous scheme is underway as Hitler makes plans to invade Russia. As the war rages on, so do individual passions. Byron Henry, now a naval submarine officer, elopes with Natalie. Rhoda's relationship with A-bomb developer Fred 'Palmer' Kirby threatens her marriage to Pug, while Pug finds that he's increasingly drawn to Pamela, who openly adores him"--DVD sleeve.
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"Chaos erupts in Europe as Warsaw falls and a defiant Adolf Hitler declares, 'The only road to peace is through German victory.' Pug Henry, in his role as unofficial observer for President Roosevelt, travels to Rome to meet Mussolini. The objective is to arrange a peace conference between Il Duce and U.S. delegate Sumner Welles, but Pug is alarmed by the Italian dictator's thirst for power, which belies his conciliatory gestures"--DVD sleeve.
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"Unbeknownst to America, a 'day of infamy' is approaching. In Russia, Pug Henry smoothes over a diplomatic-military problem with Josef Stalin, then heads for Hawaii and his new command: the battleship U.S.S. California. Other members of the Henry family are also on the move. Byron is at sea. His wife, Natalie, sets sail for Palestine with her uncle. And Pug's second son, Warren, flies a mission out of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The date is December 7,...
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The story of the five Marines and one Navy corpsman that were forever immortalized as a symbol of WWII by raising the American flag at the battle of Iwo Jima. When Joe Rosenthal's photograph of the event becomes a symbol of hope for the families at home, the three surviving men are pulled from combat and sent on a tour across America to raise desperately-needed bond money. It is a trip that brings out the truths of both that symbolic act, and of their...
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