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Remarks. You could see one part of Army Intelligence telling the pentagon we cannot bring this guy to the United States. He was a nazi and turned a colleague over and this was a u bad act but then the pentagon says we need him. And he came. There he is as the first director of the jfk space center and still every year they give out the kurt debus award. And i interviewed the head and said what about kurt debus who wore the ss uniform to work and turned over a colleague and he was a nazi . What d...

Cspan 3 created by the cable tv industry and funded by your local cable and satellite proprovider much watch us on hd. Follow us on twitter. In the weeks after the june 6th, 1944 dday invasion of normandy france allied troops faced difficult terrain and german fortifications in towns surrounding the beaches. Next military historian John Macmanus talks about what happened in the days and weeks after. What follows from june 7th on ward is an absolute bloody slog that ultimately leads deep into ger...

Please be seated. Chaplain . Today, the eyes of the world were upon the soldiers, sailors, and air man for battle. Thehey did on that day, at vet has of their commander, we once again beseech the blessings of almighty god on this great and noble undertaking. Let us pray. Creator god, we pause this moment to recognize your presence here, and to seek your blessing on this gathering of theand women, who represent greatest of generations, a generation who showed us fidelity, knowing full well and fi...

It had been postponed for more than a year. Thehopes of so many, futures of so many, depended on what happened that day. We just saw video of the landing. Talk about the significance. Especially the take you put on it. This is called operation neptune. Talk about it from a naval point of view. Of us, perhaps because of the famous photographs taken that day most recently, steven spielberg, saving private ryan. We look at that story as if it begins the moment the bow ramp drops on those landing bo...

Then they would need more ships to protect those transports during the crossing. More ships would keep them supplied not only with arms and bullets but also with cocacola and hershey bars and newspapers. Cigarettes. That couldre ships take that force and bring it across the channel and landed on an opposed beach. Apart from all that, they would still need more ships, thousands of more ships, to fight another war in the Pacific Ocean ocean halfway around the world against the japanese. That vorac...

They are all over the place. I wondered if you could answer them for me. Thank you. Sure thing. Those are called barrage balloons. They are tethered to the ships themselves. The idea is to create enter trafing for potential s by german aircraft. The allies gained overwhelming command of the air, which may dday possible. An of the reasons invasion would have been very difficult we had not gained complete command of the air. By 1944, we had. Nevertheless, there were still some german aircrafts. Mo...

I unleash the bombing again on july 25th knowing the danger this time. He decides to go ahead with it. Then okay well mark it with orange colored smoke which tells us, okay, dont bomb on this side of the orange colored smoke because thats the u. S. Lines. So the crew men are briefed do not do that. None of them want to bomb their own troops. What do you think happens on july 25th. Heres murphys law. Which way do you think the wind is blowing. Towards the u. S. Lines. So orange smoke is coming ba...

To this thing. I thought it was very interesting in another committee that i have the privilege of chairing, we did a hearing on concussions, and including professional athletes they would not recommend to their children that they play football. So times are changing. The ncaa has got to get with the times. So whatever this Committee Hearing has done to enible you as a reformer to get those schools the votes that you need to do a lot of these things that were talking about, the Family Travel why...

Areas, and sustaining existing capabilities. But, again, that measure can be better. On the administrative management side, weve made progress in measuring our ability to effectively, efficiently release the funding, monitor programmatic use of the funds, monitor grantee Financial Management of the funds, monitor the closing of the awards and grantee draw down. Were making progress, mr. Chairman, weve got an opportunity to make even more. Thanks. Yes, sir. For us, i think its about getting good,...

This year marks the 70th anniversary of the dday invasion. We continue our look at past president ial speeches in normandy. Up next, we hear from george w. Bush on the 60th anniversary of 2004. In june of this is American History tv on cspan3. Mr. President and mrs. Chirac, secretary powell and secretary principi, general myers, members of the United States congress, my fellow americans, and ladies and gentlemen, it is a high honor to represent the American People here at normandy on the 6th of ...