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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 germany and the end of hitlers nazi germany. Heres where it begins. Dday sees this basic situation. You...

Months and they wouldnt touch rice either. As far as the mess hall, we didnt have a lot of rice there. We didnt have very good food. It was not too tasty. I came bam from other there and was working in chicago and the Office Manager where i worked was a japanese girl and wound up marrying her and eating rice the rest of my life. [ applause ] lets go back over here. My question concerned which pilot flew the hump first, was it the air commandos or the pilots of the 14th air force . I think it was the 14th air force. Pilots of which organization flew the hump first. Im still not reading you. Whi...

And recover the place and rebuild it. It takes the better part of the summer. Sherborg wont be running that much for the allies until about september 1944. By then its far away from the front lines that are, you know, in eastern france. Its a bit anticlimatic. Supplies coming from then. Well of course the most famous answer to that question is mulberry harbor. Thats the code name for artificial harbors at lies created through remarkable ingenious manufacturing. Basically create your own artificial harbors off the landing beaches. 7i one at gold beach, and one at omaha beach. You basically sin...

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 question was. My grandpa always does the same thing. I was wondering what it was like on base day to...

10thgraders from silver spring, maryland. They are served at compat comcast. Their topic was water pollution. The first prize and there is only one of these at the middle school level is on the nsa. That was done by a team of eighth graders from Eastern Middle School in silver spring, maryland and in the washington, d. C. Suburbs. Their customers of Comcast Cable and theres was on the big debate over government surveillance. We congratulate all the entrance and trent entrants. Those prizes are on view for you to see on our website. We will talk to a former cspan, we bring Washington Affairs ev...