West Point Cadets Refused to Speak to Him for Four Years. Then He Led the Red Tails Into Combat.

German POWs Ate on the White Side of the Mess Hall. The Tuskegee Pilots on the Same Base Could Not.

A B-17 Pilot Never Knew Who Escorted Him Home. 50 Years Later He Found Him in His Third-Grade Photo.

A Black Pilot Was Shot Down Over Austria. The First Place He Was Integrated Was a German POW Camp.

The Army Said Black Pilots Lacked Aggression. Then Eight of Them Attacked a German Warship.

Japan Told Its Children the Americans Were Demons. Then the GIs Handed Out Chocolate.

Japan Wouldn't Risk a Flying Boat for One Downed Crew. America Sent a Submarine.

The Navy Told Their Families They Died on Dec 7. The Calendar Inside the Ship Said Otherwise.

German Soldiers Trusted a Radio Station From Home. Americans Were Running It.

Two Tuskegee Pilots Went Down in the Adriatic in a Raft. Only One Came Home.

Berlin Built a Radio Show to Break American Soldiers. They Loved It.

Two Red Tails Went Down Over Greece on the Same Day. Then the Villagers Came Running.

German POWs Swore They'd Tell the Americans Nothing. Then They Talked to Each Other.

Germans Were Told Black GIs Couldn't Fight. Then the 761st Fought Them for 183 Days Straight

Hitler Youth Called U.S. Pilots Terror Fliers. Then They Saw a Black Pilot With a Broken Neck

Germans Believed the Rhine Would Stop America. Then One Sergeant Ran Across.

The Army Was Ready to Ground the Black Pilots. Then Came Two Days Over Anzio.

Six Marines Handled 800 Messages in Two Days on Iwo Jima. The Japanese Couldn't Understand One.

A Tuskegee Pilot Was Shot Down Over France. Then He Was Locked In With White American Officers.

GIs Called Her Tokyo Rose. Then Two Reporters Found Her in Occupied Tokyo.

Bomber Crews Only Knew the Red Tails From a Distance. Then Bad Weather Put Them on Their Base.

Atsugi’s Pilots Swore to Fight On. Then MacArthur Told His Officers to Leave Their Pistols.

Japan Said It Sank 11 U.S. Carriers. Then Third Fleet Reached Tokyo Bay

Japan Told Its Women to Hide From the Americans. Then the First GIs Came Ashore.

They Said Black Men Couldn't Fly Fighters. Then the Red Tails Took the Bombers to Berlin.

German POWs Were Told America Was Being Bombed. Then They Saw Main Street.

German POWs Were Told Canada Would Treat Them Harshly. After the War, 6,000 Asked to Stay

German POWs Were Told America Was Broke. Then a Farmer Put Them on His Tractor.

German POWs Were Told US Newspapers Printed Only Lies. Then They Read What Americans Said About FDR.

German POWs Were Told America Was Starving. Then They Saw the Schoolchildren.

German POWs Swore the Train Was Going in Circles. America Was Just That Big.

German POWs Were Told New York Was in Ruins. Then the Ship Entered the Harbor

German POWs Got the Same Food as American Soldiers. Then Congress Saw the Menus.

An American Lieutenant Married Inside a POW Camp. Then the German Prisoners Started to Play.

How Hans Goebeler's U-Boat Ended Up in Chicago

German POWs Thought America Staged the Cars. Then the Train Kept Moving.

German POWs Earned 80 Cents a Day. They Never Saw a Cent of It.