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Time, ten years later in 2020 for the number will be below 100,000 so the generation as generations do is slipping away, theyre passing over and i think we are finding 6 children, grandchildren, even great grandchildren who are keen to understand what their fathers, grandfathers did in part because it is part of their heritage, part of a parsimonious and part of understanding who we are, where we came from, world war ii affects us in very profound ways to this day, the way we think about gender, we are talking at the military academy, the way we think about race, the way we think about our rol...

Movie patton that came out in 1970. And so consequently what you see, i think is the benefit of longevity. He managed to help shape our general belief that he was a hero as a general and a very competent general. I dont feel that that is entirely accurate. I certainly right to that effect. At beef in the world war ii, the european theater. What churchill called the american prodigy of organization , 18 million tons of worst of to europe, equivalent to the cargo and 30600 liberty ships or 181,000 railcars. Range from 800,000 military vehicles to footwear and sizes to a to a 22 tripoli. U. S. Mu...

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 back towards the american lines, theres confusion by at least one or two groups and thats all it takes...

Army commander tells waters, this is the first ever meeting of polish and american soldiers on a battlefield. So the two coordinate to snap trap shut for the germans and they will do so, but the germans have continued trying to attack furiously eastward to get out of there. Collectively this part of the battle of normandy is known as the falasie gap. Its roughly around 1944. The german losses have been terrible. 25,000 to 50,000 men captured, 10,000 dead in the pocket alone. Its a concentrated area so youre talking about enormous destruction by allied artillery, allied air, allied ground force...

Kcanadians coming from the othe direction. Eventually bradley will tell them to halt. This is a controversial decision at normandy because its thought that it allows germans to escape who otherwise might not have. Well, regardless of that, you do end up with an encirclement eventually by about august 18th, 1944. Tens of thousands of germans had escaped. Some tafrnks and vehicles had escaped. The two sides do join hands in a town called shamboa. Whats interesting is that its not a link up of americans and british, its americans and polish. The Company Commander is reconning ahead of his unit on...