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Title Heroes on deck : World War II on Lake Michigan.

Publication Info. [Chicago, Illinois] : John Davies Productions, Moshman Productions, Kallies Productions, [2016]
©2016

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Location Call No. Status
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  DVD 358.4 HEROES    Check Shelf
Description 1 videodisc (approximately 57 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Playing Time 005700
Description digital optical stereo Dolby professional digital 2.0
laser optical NTSC
video file DVD video rda
Credits Executive Producers: John Davies, Harvey Moshman. Producer: Brian Kallies. Narrator: Bill Kurtis.
Summary Tells the story of two passenger steamships that were converted into makeshift aircraft carriers in order to train more than 15,000 pilots and 40,000 deck crew in the safety of Lake Michigan, where today, more than one hundred World War II aircraft still rest on the lake bottom.
Form Also available as webcast.
System Details DVD, region free; stereo; aspect ratio 1.78:1.
Note "Underwritten exclusively by the Chicago Marine Heritage Society and its chairman Capt. Dave Truitt."--Container.
Subject United States. Navy -- Aviation -- History.
Wolverine (Ship)
Sable (Ship)
Sable (Ship) (OCoLC)fst00789620
United States. Navy. (OCoLC)fst00533204
Wolverine (Ship) (OCoLC)fst00789619
World War (1939-1945) (OCoLC)fst01180924
Air pilots, Military -- Training of -- Michigan, Lake.
Naval Air Station Glenview (Ill.) -- History.
Great Lakes Naval Training Center (Great Lakes, Ill.) -- History.
Navy Pier (Chicago, Ill.) -- History.
Aircraft accidents -- Michigan, Lake.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Illinois.
War and society.
Air pilots, Military -- Training of. (OCoLC)fst00802489
Aircraft accidents. (OCoLC)fst00802778
Armed Forces -- Aviation. (OCoLC)fst01351741
War and society. (OCoLC)fst01170447
Illinois. (OCoLC)fst01205143
Illinois -- Chicago -- Navy Pier. (OCoLC)fst01319678
Illinois -- Great Lakes -- Great Lakes Naval Training Center. (OCoLC)fst01711955
Illinois -- Naval Air Station Glenview. (OCoLC)fst01278459
Lake Michigan. (OCoLC)fst01239989
History.
War.
Chronological Term 1939-1945
Genre/Form Nonfiction films.
Documentary films.
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Author Chicago Marine Heritage Society, sponsor.
Added Title World War II on Lake Michigan
Standard No. 643526999283
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