Following the sinking of The Normandie naval ship, America is shocked when reputed New York mobster, Charlie "Lucky" Luciano, takes credit. The event sparks the beginning of one of the strangest relationships during World War II.
On December 8, 1941 more than 12,000 people were lined up and marched out of the city to meet their death, creating "Bloody Sunday," the second largest massacre of Jews during World War II!
It's a convenient fiction that the Germans alone were responsible for the Holocaust. The awful truth is that some of the worst offenders were not German but were Latvian Viktor Arajs, a group who actively participated in the killing of 30,000 Jews.
Private Hal Baumgarten of the 116th Regiment was wounded five times during D-Day, but to him, none of the wounds he suffered in battle cut deeper than the question of why he survived and many others did not.
There are some events that happen that change your life. See "Between Iraq and a Hard Place" during the GI Film Festival airing only on Military Channel.