Emerging revolutionary war, mark maloy is a historian with the National Parks service, and hes like what can i do thats revolutionary war and its like, mark, no, this is the civil war. Hes like, whoa so we decided we would let him come talk about fort sumter, its as close as we can get in the war to the revolutionary war era. I say all that because mark is a delightful historian, wonderful guy, i wish i could get him to laugh on cue, his most distinctive feature is his laugh. We like to get him pumped up and going. Were delighted to have him come here today to speak the first shots of the civil war at fort sumter. Mark . Thank you very much for that introduction, chris. And its a pleasure to be able to speak at this symposium for the emerging civil war. Wed love to have done it in person but being able to do it digitally like this is a wonderful way to do it as well. So but yeah, as chris mentioned, you know, my main passion is the American Revolutionary war. But, you know, i work for
Civil war virtual symposium. Glad to have you with us. My name is chris mackowski. Our next speaker today comes to us from our sister site, emerging revolutionary war. Mark maloy is a historian with the National Parks service. This is the civil war, mark. So we decided we would let him come talk about for sometime because its as close as we can get in the war to the revolutionary war era. I say all that because mark is a delightful historian and wonderful guy. I wish i could get him to laugh on you. Is most distinctive feature is his laugh, which we love to get him pumped up and going. We are delighted to have him today to speak about the first shots of the civil war at fort sumner. Mark . Thank you very much for that introduction, chris. [laughs] its a pleasure to be able to speak at this symposium for the emerging civil war. We love to have done it in person, but being able to do a digitally like this is a wonderful way to do it as well. As chris mentioned, my main passion is the Ame
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Weapon station here, its also got the caliber 50 machine gun where the commander is and it also has two m19 machine guns one mounted with the main gun and the other is mounted here up in the front of the tank. This is manned by the bow gunner. He can move that up and down. That m191930 machine gun is protruding through the ball mount here. You got the workings of the gun. Got his ammunition back there and catch bag to catch the shell casings as they come out. You look at the top of the hatch over his right shoulder there, there is a periscope that goes in there. It is a prismatic periscope that sticks up and inside that periscope is a lens and he uses that to fire the machine gun. This one here is another machine gun, the other m1919. This is mounted with the main gun so tell investigates, depresses, turns with the tarrot. This is controlled by the gunner and he has switchology in his station to fire the main gun and the machine gun and esranging that through a similar set up you can s
Good morning i am one of the volunteers, in the Education Center in carlile, i want to talk to today about the american m4 medium tank. It is probably one of the most prolific tanks of the Second World War. This particular example is one of the earlier versions. This one is armed with a 75 millimeter main gum and we move to the commanders weapons station hair it has the caliber 50 machine gun where the commander is and it has to 1919 machine guns. The other gun is mounted here up in front of the tank. This one is manned by the bell gun and he could move that up and down he can show you how it lifts so that am 1919 machine gun is shot through this ball right here this whole. Hes got his ammunition back there and the shell casings as they come out. You could see those. You look at the top of the hatch, right over his right shoulder there, there is a periscope that goes in there. It is just as the name implies, its the periscope that fits up in that space, and inside there, is a land and