Beau Billingslea - Narration

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they tread narrow steam beans hundreds of feet in the air to raise the skyscrapers and bridges that defined the American skyline. Theirs is a world where one wrong step can be their last and sudden death is an ever present fact of life. They are the iron workers who risk everything to pierce the sky with the monuments of the modern world. Meet Skywalker's Walk the High Steel. Next on a suicide mission, the USS Hornet awaits the scraps after being decommissioned for the last time. It seems unfair for a ship that battled so hard to reclaim the Pacific from the Japanese. This is the story of the ship that fought back first, what makes a man pilot a plane against overwhelming odds and survive, Attacker is willing to turn themselves into human bombs. Hornet was the great ghost that returned to haunt the Japanese name with fighting brotherhood of men that refuse to leave her behind. S. Jeremiah O'Brien was a Liberty Ship rush, built to be part of a vital lifeline of supplies and troops for the Allied invasion of Europe. She was called in Ugly Duckling, and she was a sitting duck for prowling U boats most of her crew had never seen to see before. And still they did their duty even when death could come at any second. How did she survive and then, 50 years later, resurrect herself to sail again? As a testament to those who served, it takes a certain kind of **** in a certain kind of crew.