Your Year of Birth in Video History Christmas Present

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Here's a selection from the Classic / Christmas  or Birthday Present Idea Archives

 A super way to give, a special present, unique to that person - their own year of birth, or some extra special year in the life of someone you care for -

" Your Own Personal Video History of YOUR Birth Year "

Now, here is one very cool idea, for that VERY special Birthday Present, for whomever, in your life,  you would like to do something special for, and make a very cool present forever - Please read carefully, so we can explain carefully. Listed here is ONE video, from a recent purchase we made, and there are others. You are bidding, in this auction for ONE video, in VHS format, in absolutely pristine condition, as if the wrapper were just taken off.....All you need to do, is choose the year of your birth, if available, or someone else' - for the perfect birthday present !!

Below is an actual description of these very neat videos, that we have available. Not all years available.... It's an overview from the exact year someone, was born. A video compilation of major events, people and places. A spectacular memory jolt for anyone, to recall, wistfully, those events that shaped the very year you were born.....You WILL receive major praise for this nifty present idea from that someone special....

1930's Years Available : 1931 through 1939 - 1931, 1938 SOLD OUT

1940's Years Available : 1942 through 1949  /  

1940, 1945, 1946 , 1947 - SOLD OUT.

1950's Years Available : 1950, 1953, 1956, 1957 and 1958

1953, 1955, 1958 - SOLD OUT 

1960's Years Available : 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1967 / 

1966 - SOLD OUT

ALSO AVAILABLE :

The War Years 1941-1945 After Pearl Harbour ( one video )

PLEASE NOTE - If you think you want one of these videos, please bid soon, and remember, there is only ONE of each in stock....That's IT. Think ahead for Christmas now...

6900 perfect sales can't be wrong....

Here is a description of the one in the listing, and each one is just as exacting, from each year. We expect these to be hot sellers, so please email us for details on how to pay for each one. Of course, you can buy more than one, if you choose. We suggest Paypal is the quickest way to assure reserving one.

Video History of the War Years after Pearl Harbor 1941-1945 :

you will see the following events that shaped that historic period: THE WORLD SITUATION IN 1941--The Japanese attack on the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 draws America into the Second World War, a war that has been expanding until, by Christmas of 1941, four-fifths of all the people in the world are involved. Millions have lost homes and families; millions more have lost their lives. The political map of the world has been radically changed by the aggressive actions of dictators. Nazi Germany has occupied most of the countries of Europe, including a large part of the Soviet Union. Fascist Italy has seized Albania, and Ethiopia in Africa. Japan has occupied Formosa, Korea and part of China, and taken control of many strategically located Pacific islands. THE U.S. CONVERTS TO WAR PRODUCTON--Immediately after Pearl Harbor, war is declared between the United States and the aggressor nations, Japan, Germany and Italy. The U.S. starts a rapid, all-out conversion of industries and manpower. With the hard-pressed Allies unable to maintain production of desperately-needed war materials, the U.S. is the only nation capable of launching a major effort. The changeover is dramatic. Peacetime factories become war plants turning out planes, ships and guns. Men are called into military service, and housewives who have never touched a tool learn to operate machines making the weapons of war. UNITED NATIONS FORCES GROW--The Allied armies gain strength as men from many different nations join in the struggle against the aggressors. THE BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC--In 1942, Germany's U-boats become an ever-increasing menace on the high seas. In 10 months, the Allies lose over 500 ships carrying essential supplies. THE ALLIES STRUGGLE ON THREE FRONTS RUSSIA - In the spring of 1942, German forces advance further into the Soviet Union, driving deep into the Ukraine. The Russians continue their "scorched earth" policy, burning wheat fields, blowing up bridges, dams, power plants, leaving nothing that might be of use to the enemy. Old people, women and children become guerilla fighters, harassing the Nazis behind the lines. The Russian army holds Leningrad and Moscow in the face of a German offensive, but on July 1 Sevastopol falls and the Germans mass for an all-out drive into the Caucasus. NORTH AFRICA - German forces drive toward the Suez Canal to cut supply lifelines. British and French troops are forced to retreat across the desert to EI Alamein, only 60 miles from Suez....PACIFIC - The Japanese spread their domination, taking Wake Island, Guam, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Singapore and islands throughout the Pacific. THE BATTLE OF MlDWAY A turning point of the war in the Pacific occurs in the summer of 1942. On June 3, aware that if the Japanese reach Midway .the U.S. Navy will be swept from the Pacific, Admiral Nimitz orders a full scale attack by his American fleet on the Japanese approaching Midway and a dramatic air and sea battle ensues. The Japanese suffer heavy losses, crippling their striking power and forcing them to withdraw. TURNING POINT IN NORTH AFRICA --In August of 1942, Germany's Marshall Rommel sends in tanks to breach a hole in Allied lines through which troops can follow - the accepted "blitzkrieg" tactic. Allied forces allow the tanks to pass through, then close in and destroy them, leaving 300 tanks of the German Afrika Korps burning in the desert. It is a defensive victory but the German advance is stopped and Suez is safe. THE DEFENSE OF STALINGRAD In September, the German army advances on the important industrial city of Stalingrad. The Russians offer fierce resistance, fighting back from crumbling houses, from stairways and alleys throughout the city. And Stalingrad holds to become a third turning point for the Allies. CONVOYS SAFEGUARD SHlPPING-- The Battle of the Atlantic continues, but the sinking of Allied ships by German submarines has been markedly reduced. In October of 1942, only 11 Allied ships are lost as opposed to 111 in June of 1942. Of the 20,000 ships convoyed across the ocean, 199 out of every 200 reach port safely. ALLIES OPEN AIR ROUTES--The Allies finally reach a point where they can begin to take the offensive. Fresh troops and supplies arrive at key places around the world. The U.S. Army Air Transport command opens air routes covering 110,000 miles, providing battle materials, food and medical supplies. FIRST ALLIED PACIFIC OFFENSIVE--The U.S. Marines mount their first major amphibious operation against the Japanese in the Solomon Islands. On August 7 they land on Guadalcanal. Under the command of General Douglas MacArthur, troops from Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the U.S. attack Japanese strongholds on New Guinea. The forces suffer nightmarish conditions on the tropical islands, battling swamps, deadly snakes, malaria and dysentery as well as the enemy, and losses are heavy. The Allies gain their objective: bases, from which to strike at Japan. HE BATTLE OF EL ALAMEIN--On October 23,1942 the British 8th Army led by General Montgomery, under the supreme command of General Alexander, launches an offensive against Rommel's Afrika Korps. Using a surprise reversal of the "blitz-krieg' tactic, Montgomery sends the infantry in first, then British tanks pour through the gap in enemy lines. The Germans are driven into retreat and thousands of Italian troops are taken prisoner. EISENHOWER LANDS IN NORTH AFRICA--On November 7, 1942 a huge amphibious operation commanded by General Dwight D. Eisenhower, involving 500 transports and 350 war-ships, lands American and British troops in French North Africa. Hitler's reaction is to sweep through France and occupy the entire country. At Toulon, the French scuttle much of their fleet before the Germans can seize it. GERMANS ROUTED AT STALINGRAD--In late 1942, the Russian forces start a drive to break the siege of Stalingrad. A pincer movement encircles and cuts off the Germans -completely destroying their 6th Army. The siege costs the Germans over half a million men and masses of war material. On February 5, 1943,24 German generals surrender to the Russians. Marshall Stalin orders salvos of 240 guns in Moscow to celebrate the decisive victory. THE GATHERING OFFENSIVE: THE CASABLANCA CONFERENCE-- In January, 1943 U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill of Britain meet in Casablanca at a conference also attended by General Charles De Gaulle, leader of the Free French. It is decided that the Allied objective must be unconditional surrender by Germany and Japan. THE TUNISIAN CAMPAIGN: VICTORY IN AFRICA --The British 8th Army under General Montgomery advances into Tunisia and meets up with the Allied troops commanded by General Eisenhower. The combined forces break through German defenses and Bizerte and Tunis fall. On May 12, the Axis forces in Africa surrender. The Tunisian campaign is costly for the Germans: 30,000 are killed, 20,000 wounded, and 291,000 taken prisoner. THE ITALIAN CAMPAIGN: ALLIED INV ASION On July 10, 1943, Allied troops land in Sicily and take the island by mid-August. On September 3 they launch an invasion of Italy itself. Mussolini falls from power and the new government surrenders to the Allies. THE AIR FRONT-- The air war intensifies as the Allies step up bombing attacks on strategic German cities. The Italian campaign has given the Allies a base in Foggia, Italy in addition to the bases in Britain from which attacks are launched around the clock, Americans by day and British by night. Allied planes clash with the Luftwaffe in spectacular air battles.... THE SOVIETS ADVANCE-- A powerful offensive launched by the Russians in June of 1943 drives the Germans back across the U.S.S.R. Thousands of towns are liberated. The guerilla fighters return to their homes and families. THE PACIFIC WAR--In 1943 the U.S. Navy drives across the central Pacific, with the objective of capturing key locations in island groups held by the Japanese. Aircraft carrier guns and planes shell and bomb ahead of landings by American Marine and Amy assault troops. The November 22 landing on Tarawa in the Gilbert Islands is the initial step in the campaign. It is successful but the toll of American casualties is high. ALLIED LEADERS CONFER--President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill meet with China's Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek in Cairo, and a few days later with Soviet leader Stalin in Teheran. OCCUPIED COUNTRIES CONTINUE RESISTANCE--In Yugoslavia, 300,000 partisans led by Marshall Tito wage guerilla warfare against the Germans occupying their country, and in France the underground resistance fighters keep up their harassment of the Nazis. JUNE 6, 1944 - "D-DAY"--Under the supreme command of General Dwight Eisenhower, the Allied forces launch the massive invasion of Europe and set out for the beaches of Normandy. The operation involves over two million troops, four thousand ships and 11,000 planes. THE ALLIES MOVE TOWARD VICTORY-German forces are now under attack by Allied armies on three fronts in Europe, and step-by-step the Nazis are pushed back. Paris is liberated in August of 1944, as are other occupied cities, and the Allies drive on toward Germany itself. THE BATTLE OF THE BULGE--In late December of 1944, German General Von Rundstedt throws everything at his disposal into a daring counteroffensive in the Ardennes. It comes dangerously close to succeeding, but the Allied forces hang on and then retaliate. The final bid for Germany's victory is crushed. Berlin falls. F.D.R. REELECTED-- In January, 1945 Roosevelt is inaugurated for his fourth successive term as U.S. President "BIG THREE" CONFERENCE AT YALTA--At a Black Sea resort near Yalta in the Soviet Union, Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin meet again on February 3 to discuss plans that will insure the imminent defeat of the Nazis. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT DIES--In April, 1945, on the eve of victory, the U.S. loses its wartime leader. Harry S. Truman is sworn in as the new head of state. GERMANY SURRENDERS--on May 7, at General Eisenhower's headquarters in a small schoolhouse in Relms, France, the German high command signs unconditional surrender to the allies. The war in Europe is over. THE WAR IN THE PACIFIC-The Allied offensive in the Pacific has been moving steadily forward. The Philippines have been won back, along with a score of other islands. The Japanese resort to desperate measures, the use of kamikazes, suicide planes, and take a heavy toll of American ships. On Easter Sunday, the Allies open assault on Okinawa, only 400 miles from Japan, landing U.S. Marines on the island. A 4-month battle is costly in lives on both sides, but by July, 1945 the key island is in U.S. hands. ATOMIC BOMB ENDS WAR--Japan asks for peace, following the use of the atom bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Formal surrender is signed aboard the U.S.S. Missouri in Tokyo Bay on September 2, 1945. THE FATE OF THE WAR CRIMINALS--At the conclusion of World War II, the key leaders of the aggressor nations meet justice in a variety of ways: Premier Tojo of Japan faces trial along with his top military echelon; commanders of Nazi death camps are executed; Mussolini is killed by his own people and his body displayed in a public square; Hitler is dead by his own hand, and an International Court in Nuremberg places Hitler's henchmen on trial. THE UNITED NATIONS CHARTER--In San Francisco, representatives of the United Nations sign the charter whose objective is to create a world organization that will make war impossible in the future

Our Seller's Notes & Fine Print:...A Classic.....Please note, this is not a rental copy...Open, very rare to find these days...VHS...Rated...about 90 minutes....In Color...Black and white....The videos are in perfect order.. As a rule, we do not list items that are beaten up, or in anything less than excellent condition..Some items are rare, and out of print, and we make allowances for that, if that is the case we will indicate that...Primarily, we buy stock as if they were for ourselves, and sold to ourselves....Box looks brand new, as does the cassette...Comes in a clamshell case which has protected the cassette...We invite you to check our feedback, the pulse of our success here....We pride ourselves on taking care of people, and bringing a sale to a successful conclusion...6900 perfect sales can't be wrong....We also want to mention, we take great care and pride in packaging, and preparing an item for shipping. We wrap as well as possible; and we never 'sit' on an item, it goes out immediately, and most clients see their item in three or four days. In particular, with international clientele, we take special consideration. Do look at our feedback for confirmation of our words. Every sale is important to us, and we take that extra step to bring a sale to a highly successful conclusion....Please note: If this item is new, and is returned, in an opened state, for whatever reason, we reserve the right to impose a restocking, diminished value fee at our discretion, usually $ 5.00 - $ 10.00. Finally : If you are an international bidder, please read this carefully: Due to the number of people who incorrectly bid on items, not realizing that they are, or are NOT PAL, or NTSC standard, based on the error they make, we cannot be responsible for this, when the items are clearly marked on all auctions. Be sure, in the heat of the moment, that you are bidding on a movie that can facilitate playing later on ! We don't want disillusioned,or frustrated winners. We will NOT issue returns or refunds on this error any longer. We thank you for your indulgence.