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History Detectives | Preview: July 19th | PBS

Duration: 00:31
Program: History Detectives #905
Broadcast Date: Jul. 19, 2011

HISTORY DETECTIVES investigate a propeller from a World War II drone, a wooden club that could be Teddy Roosevelt's and a letter that Clara Barton could have written concerning a soldier's life.

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