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WW2 Women on the Frontline.

WW2 Women on the Frontline

The unknown histories of the women pilots, journalists, guerrillas and spies who fought, flew and died in World War II.

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UPCOMING EPISODES

Fri, 5/1 at 1:29 am America/Chicago on Austin PBS HDTV

Behind Enemy Lines

Women battle against Nazis behind enemy lines; Josephine Baker uses her celebrity status to smuggle information to the Allies; a wireless operator in France supports a spy network; teenage girls in the Netherlands assassinate Nazi officers.

Fri, 5/1 at 2:16 am America/Chicago on Austin PBS HDTV

The War in the Air

Women who took to the skies to combat Hitler's aerial threat, including a pilot who delivered more than 1,400 aircraft, a Soviet group called the Night Witches and a gunner girl battling Hitler's luftwaffe.

Fri, 5/1 at 3:05 am America/Chicago on Austin PBS HDTV

Boots on the Ground

Stories of female journalists, nurses and guerilla fighters; Martha Gellhorn stows away on a hospital ship and ends up on Omaha beach; photographer Lee Miller.