Presidents at War: Their Finest Hours
Episode
2
The History Channel
December 21, 2020
Among the 16 million Americans who served on active duty during World War II are eight American presidents: Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Carter, Bush, Ford, Reagan and Eisenhower. ...
Among the 16 million Americans who served on active duty during World War II are eight American presidents: Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Carter, Bush, Ford, Reagan and Eisenhower. The second episode of this epic event special follows these men from late 1943 to the wars; end, in both the European and Pacific theatres. From D-Day to the final Pacific Island hopping campaigns, we see what they experience and how that shapes them as leaders. Nixon faces a barrage of live fire, Bush is shot down in the Pacific, Ford faces kamikazes on the USS Monterey and Eisenhower takes on perhaps the greatest invasion in world history - the invasion of Normandy.