Kentucky WWII Programs
Watch Online
These past KET programs and features related to World War II are available for viewing online (Windows Media® format).
Aviation Museum of Kentucky
A KET Electronic Field Trip tells a few World War II stories while touring the museum at Lexington’s Blue Grass Airport.
• (2003) | Read more »
B-17 Flying Fortress
This “bonus footage” from our Aviation Museum field trip takes you inside a visiting WWII-era bomber for a flight over Central Kentucky.
• (2003)
BattleFire!
In this bookclub@ket program (#311), the panelists discuss Col. Arthur Kelly’s book about Kentuckians’ WWII combat experiences.
• (2001) | Read more »
Glacier Girl
The late J. Roy Shoffner of Middlesboro talks about his quest to restore a WWII bomber from the “Lost Squadron” that he and his crew dug out of the ice of Greenland.
• from Kentucky Life Program 310 (1997) | Read more »
Holocaust Survivors
In an interview from KET’s 1980s series Bywords, Fr. Stanley Schmidt and Irene Zimmerman recall the horrors of the Holocaust.
• (1980)
Col. Arthur L. Kelly
In this program from One to One with Bill Goodman, a veteran of three wars talks about his own experiences and the interviews he conducted with other Kentucky veterans for his book BattleFire! (#244)
• (2007) | Read more »
Kentucky at War
A two-hour documentary by Creation Films of Louisville uses archival footage and interviews to trace the war’s impact on the state.
• (2007) | Read more »
Kentucky Life WWII Special
The Harrodsburg Tankers, a National Guard unit that ended up on Bataan; Camp Breckinridge, which housed German and Italian POWs; and a Somerset woman who was a model for Rosie the Riveter. (#1323)
• (2007) | Read more »
Kentucky Military History Museum
Curator Bill Bright leads a tour of the Kentucky Historical Society’s Frankfort museum dedicated to Kentucky veterans.
• from Kentucky Life Program 1112 (2005) | Read more »
Kentucky Nurses Association
A salute to the centennial of the KNA includes the stories of four Kentucky nurses who were POWs in World War II.
• from Louisville Life Program 106 (2006) | Read more »
Kentucky WWII Veterans: In Their Own Words
Kentuckians recall their combat experiences in World War II and talk about its effects on them in a one-hour KET documentary.
• (2007) | Read more »
Juanita Knipp, Activist
In an interview from KET’s 1980s series Bywords, Knipp talks about her fight to secure recognition and benefits for veterans of the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps.
• (1980)
LST-325
Dave Shuffett tours a transport ship that was part of the D-Day landing, now a floating memorial, on its visit to Paducah.
• from Kentucky Life Program 1008 (2004) | Read more »
Louisville Life WWII Special
Candyce Clifft hosts interviews with veterans, visits to archives of war-related documents, and tours of the Kentucky Medal of Honor Memorial and the Patton Museum.
• (2007) | Read more »
Martha Penn, Army Nurse
A Frankfort woman recalls caring for soldiers wounded at Normandy and the Battle of the Bulge.
• from Kentucky Life Program 912 (2003) | Read more »
Ron Spriggs, Tuskegee Airmen Historian
In this program from Connections with Renee Shaw (#108), a Nicholasville man shows memorabilia and artifacts related to the pioneering African-American aviators.
• (2006) | Read more »
Tuskegee Airmen
A second Connections with Renee Shaw program focusing on the Airmen features a return visit from Nicholasville collector Ron Spriggs and two Kentuckians who were members of the unit. (#302)
• (2007) | Read more »
Veterans Day Special
This Kentucky Life program (#1220) includes a profile of northern Tennesseean Cordell Hull and a look at Kentucky connections to the Tuskegee Airmen.
• (2006) | Read more »
Mike Vories, Filmmaker
In an interview from KET’s 1980s series Bywords, a teenage filmmaker discusses an ambitious class project: The Last of the Great History Projects: The Reenactment of WWII.
• (1980)
Ralph Waldrop, Bomber Pilot
A Mayfield man who flew 65 combat missions recounts his wartime experiences and climbs back into a B-26 for the first time in more than 50 years.
• from Kentucky Life Program 701 (2001) | Read more »
