More vigorously and with greater force and depth than had been anticipated. What do you think patton would have done in that circumstance . Landing an army on the beach with no opposition . Would he do you think he might have dug in . You know, thats a counter factual and historians always love counter factuals because i cant be wrong. I can say, yeah, he would have dug in just like lucas did. Or no, he would have raced to rome and the story of the anzio landings would have been considerably different. My belief is had general lucas taken that small core and pushed inland they would have been destroyed, that they would have been annihilated. Not only would we have had the agony of four months at anzio, but that we would have probably had the agony of an entire corps being annihilated. So im a defending of lucas even though i recognize hes the wrong man for the job. Hes replaced by general trusscot, the one who was born to lead men in the dark of night. He was reliesed by lucian. Yes, s
Where she lived in paris. She avoided pars because she could have been extradited. Correct, yes. Rented the apartment, is that correct . The apartment that they owned in paris . Madame nhu told me she was given the apartment. She always implied it was given to her by the American Government because they felt bad for knocking off her husband and brotherinlaw and had no other place to go. They needed to keep her in a safe place. So when she would leave paris, she would rent out that apartment and get the extra cash from it. Thats where i found her. My vietnamese is really bad, but every now and then, i will go online and try to decipher my way through a little article. I found. This article written in the early 2000s by a guy who claimed interview madame nhu. That sort of rung a bell. I thought back to my notes. I thought, oh, yeah, i see she wrote a letter to claire booth from this address close to the eiffel tower. Ill go there and see if i can find her. This is when i thought theres n
And saturday, the depiction of slavery in movies. Sunday at 4 00 p. M. , an interview with president herbert hoover. Let us know what you think about the programs youre watching. Call us at 2026263400 or email us at comments cspan. Org. Like us on facebook, follow us on twitter. Now, stories from three Army Veterans who served on the front lines during world war ii. They reflect on their experience as part of the dday invasion of nazi occupied france. This was one of several events hosted by the dwight d. Eisenhower president ial library in kansas. Its about 1 hour 10 minutes. Good afternoon. And welcome to the eisenhower president ial Library Museum and boyhood home for our panel on the battlefield. Our second panel this afternoon. Im tim rives. I would like to start with the quote we used last hour that i think really puts the war in perspective. Its by the late distinguished military historian john keegan who wrote that the Second World War is the largest single event in Human Histo
Good at figuring out stuff like this. But in the main, i think you have to say that, although there were times when senior guys ultra did not go below army level. So if you were a corps commander, you didnt get ultra. You werent even supposed to know about it. So at army level, which is a very high tactical level, you got ultra and you had an ultra officer there, he would bring the stuff in, hed say, this is what we got from blechly park today, where they were decrypting this stuff in england. Hed say, this is what we got today, this is what we know. Sir, you probably cant do anything about this because the germans would figure out that we got this through a radio intercept. And they would err on the side of caution. Rarely, and im hard pressed to think of a time when they knew that something was going to happen and they let men get killed instead. And there were times ultra was possible. Two examples. Kaserim pass, the battle of the bulge. The germans did their planning not by radio c
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