You some flavor of this rather unusual bunch of american veterans. Then i will ask a few of these veterans to join me on the stage, and i will introduce them at that time. I will ask them a few questions to jumpstart the conversation, but at some point, i will just turn it over to you all and let you have a conversation with these pretty incredible guys. , is aok, project 9 result of a lot of research from around the country, and i will not go into that. But i was lucky enough to be able to interview several of the remaining veterans from that campaign of so long ago in burma. Pretty remarkable bunch. They were started by a guy named arnold. Ld happ some of you may have heard of him. A guy namedsted by churchill. Winston, i think, was his first name. Let me take you through some of these photos, and we will see what happens. I think i remember how to operate this. By the way, there were some of these flyers out there. I do not know if you all got any. If you did not, i do not know what
Wont go into that. I was lucky enough to be able to interview several of those veterans. Pretty remarkable bunch. They were started by arnold, some of you may have heard of him, at the behest of franklin roosevelt, who was requested by the guy named church hill. Winston i think was his first name. There were some flyers out there, i dont know if you all got any. If you didnt, i dont know what to tell you. I dont have any more. But it tells you about this book, project nine, both of the air commandos in world war ii. Propublished by the university f any soury press, and let me point out to you that if you call this number or order online from the university of Missouri Press and give them the secret code of afs 14, afs 14, youll get 20 discount. Thats six bucks. Okay. So let us begin. For those of you who are really sharp eyes, you might take a look at that numeral one. What can i say . These guys were young guys a long way from home. Im not going to say anything else. There were three
Because most protestants in germany were lutherans and one who was roman catholic. So he called upon two highly decorated, highlyrespected men who were fluent in german. Henry garriky was a missouri lutheran who grew up in southern missouri and had been in a germanspeaking family. There was a chaplain priest. He agreed to stay behind and so did henry. They decided to stay behind and minister to these guys that were on trial. Four of them would be acquitted. 11 ultimately were lynched. The others were given long prison terms. It never occurred to me what the two chaplains had to go through. Many of the american soldiers, including highranking officers said, we shouldnt give these nazis any comfort. They shouldnt have our chaplains. We dont want them to stay there. There was great pressure on these two men not to say. Oconnor was a priest. Catholic priest, he didnt have a family back home waiting for him, a wife and children. But henry had a wife and three sons that he hadnt seen for oth
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