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Local Red Arrow documentary to air on PBS

Nightmare in New Guinea , a documentary film, produced through Grand Valley State University, about Red Arrow veterans of WWII will air on PBS station WGVU-TV on Thursday, March 29 at 10 p.m.

The film merges oral histories from West Michigan Red Arrow with historic information and footage of the division in action. Students from the history department and film and video program spent a semester working on the production.

For more information call Department of History Chair Jim Smither at (616) 331-3422, or visit www.gvsu.edu/gvmagazine to read “Preserving History” in the Fall 2006 issue of Grand Valley Magazine.

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