CSPAN3 American Artifacts 101st Airborne World War II Living History Camp July 12, 2024
My name is greg hennessy. Im one of the people who gives the school tours, im in charge of the world war ii section. This area represents the type of buildings that we quickly put up at the start of world war ii. The reason why we had to quickly put them up was that we were not prepared for. The United States military had less than 350,000 soldiers at the outbreak of world war ii. Thats the army, navy and marine combined. No air force. By the end of the war we had about 17 Million People in service. To do that, we portraying centers all over the country to expand some of the force that we had....