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Out is that the germans at salerno used experimental glider bombers, Remote Control glider bombers and that almost caused the operation to be a failure for the United States. Yeah. And so did the german do you know if the germans used those same tactics in any other phase of the war . The germans were fiendish in coming up with new gadgets and one that they used against us for the first time was a glide bomb called the fritz x. And it was a bomb that was dropped from an airplane and then it was ...

Tenets is to hold the high ground. And the terrain of italy, wasnt there significant reconnaissance or intelligence to find out about, say, not even just the fortifications around them but simply the geography as well as the geology of the area going up the boot . Yeah, we knew a lot. For one thing, when the italians switched sides we had a lot of italian informants. Body the Italian Military, Italian Military provided lots of maps. Needless to say they had lots of experience in areas around cas...

Speakers lecture series. Its an hour and 40 minutes. Thanks so much for inviting me to be with you and for joining me on this gorgeous new york morning. This is the third presentation ive given in this fantastic auditorium at the New York Historical society in just over a year. And all i can say is you folks are gluttons for punishment. Were going to talk about the second world war. I was just in normandy for the 70th anniversary of dday. And that campaign certainly has taken center stage this s...

He was followed by fred bremmer the bombadeer and myself. I was wondering what it was like on base just day to day when you werent out on missions . Are you talking about for the air commandos there . Yeah. Okay. Pat, do you want to take that. Well id like to accept it might not come as a surprise to you people that all three of us have hearing aides plugged in our ears. Unfortunately the day before i came up here the right one went on the fritz and i sent it in for repair. I dont know what the ...

I think that there needs to be a campaign of writing letters instead of all these emails because they can keep those lett letters instead of they cant keep the emails. Theyre in space. Letters are tangible. And reread them. Thats the wonderful part. And years and years from now, those soldiers can read them and think back. It is very necessary for people to write letters. At 5 00 a booth will open over by the statue where you can make a card to send to a current soldier. We have time for one mor...

Joining me to comoderate this debate is Lindsay Hopman university of delaware professor of communication and Political Science. The candidates in this race for the u. S. Senate includes democrat chris coons the incumbent republican kevin wade. Gentleman welcome to both of you. Tonights debate will be divided into two parts. Following a one minute Opening Statement from each of our candidates Lindsey Hoffman and i will post will pose questions to the candidates. Responses are limited to one minut...

Before this senseless racial hatred can be completely uprooted. Okay. What do we take away from this little its not the answer itself but sort of a summary of the answer. One thing i noticed, tells him to go to the united hebrew trades, and then use them as his help to talk to the machinist union. Kind of like theyre saying the whole idea of like selfpreservation, if they dont want us to be a part of them, fine, well do it ourselves. Dont go to the aflcio, perhaps, go to even though the American...

Because of the famous photographs taken that mostnd famous films, the recent of which Steven Spielbergs saving private ofn, the first 20 minutes which are gutwrenching. We look at that moment the teenage soldiers rush out on that beach. In a way that story is the culmination of a very long story and that story encompasses the navy. The name, operation neptune, encompasses the naval aspects of operation overlord, which most would recognize as the title for this operation. Monthsns not just before...

To discuss the subject of dday and how we commemorate and remember this great decisive event of world war ii down, 70 years on. If you Pay Attention today, one can still see a current news reports where the results of world war ii still reverberate in our world such as in chinese, japanese relations or the situation between russia and ukraine today. If one travels, you will see how different nations remember the war in their own a national museums, monuments, cemeteries, and other places of cult...

I walked home in the fog and i was pursued by that stupid thing every inch of the way and it was all because of the war. Thats got to be hard to top. Were here to commemorate the 70th anniversary of dday what are your dday memories, how did you hear . Was it one of hope . Was it the light at the end of the tunnel after all these years, anything come to mind . Of course i was working at firestone on that day, and we had all heard at firestone that dday was happening and all the churches were open...