For School and Country
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Alex Lloyd introduces the WWII video documentary FOR SCHOOL AND COUNTRY, coming to YouTube over the next five weeks. FOR SCHOOL AND COUNTRY is a five-part video documentary miniseries, created by us, Thistle Productions. The series chronicles the lives and service of twelve WWII veterans who went to school together and took up arms when war broke out. This production was originally released on DVD in 2015 - the first ‘Thistle Productions’ project - and it is finally available for free via streaming. These dozen veterans served across the whole theatre of war. At sea they fought the Bismarck and the Admiral Graf Spee, and sailed in the Mediterranean Fleet and the Pacific Fleet, including at the largest naval engagement of the war. On land they fought at Tobruk, El Alamein and Tarakan; and they trekked through the jungles of New Guinea and landed on the beaches of Balikpapan. And in the sky they flew over Europe for Bomber Command, over the Middle East for the Desert Air Force, and with the Forgotten Army in Burma. Many had narrow escapes, including one sole survivor when his bomber crashed in enemy territory. Watch the episodes via www.youtube.com/lifeonthelinepodcast as they drop on the following dates at 7pm Sydney time: Episode I - Books to Arms - 21 March Episode II - Scuttled & Sunk - 28 March Episode III - A Great Escape - 4 April Episode IV - Terror in the Jungle - 11 April Episode V - You Do Your Part - 18 April Find out more about the documentary at www.lifeonthelinepodcast.com/documentary. 
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