On this episode of Our American Stories John Ford was at the top of Hollywood The director of Stagecoach The Grapes of Wrath and How Green Was My Valley had money fame power and back-to-back Academy Awards for Best Director Then at forty-seven he walked away from Hollywood and went on active duty with the U S Navy For our Hollywood Goes to War series historian and Wild West expert Roger McGrath shares why Ford decided to take his cameras into the thick of World War II filming under fire at Midway parachuting behind enemy lines in Burma and going [... more]