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Wel welcome to war stories. Im oliver north coming to you from patriots point. This is the world war ii destroyer, a fighting ship with a remarkable history. At normandy, her guns fired to protect american soldiers landing on the beach. In the space of 09 minu90 minut planes attacked her. The heroic efforts saved the ship and she made her way back to the u. S. And saw action again in the korean war. The brave soldiers who served aboard these vessels called them tin cans. They shot down enemy aircraft, hunted and sank submarines, screened for larger ships, provided naval gunfire support for troops on shore. And delivered the mail. Their jack of all trades capabilities put them in harms way against far superior foes. Despite their valiant service, theyre less well known than the capitol ships they protected. They might be better celebrated, but they didnt go anywhere without their destroyer escorts. Tonight on war stories, the tin can sailors of world war ii. More more than 300,000 serve ....
Criticism from inside its been mostly in the vein of how dare he meaning how dare an insider give away the secret. How dare an insider talk about other insiders in a way that perhaps might not be in keeping with the code that we have a shinkman. People keep asking me why are people uncomfortable here . I welcome the discomfort but i also think this is what we do. We should invite discomfort. He next author paul reid talks about his book the last lion. They were kate coauthored with the late historian William Manchester. This threepart series on former Prime MinisterWinston Churchill. From the printers row lit fest this is 50 minutes. Thank you very much and thank you all for turning out on a sunday morning for this event. Im excited to be here with paul reid. We had met before and we had talked before and we are ....
The hugely popular Phil Newton was awarded honorary life member of Offaly group READY on March 13 when 40 members of the group met for dinner in the Tullamore T. ....
The hugely popular Phil Newton was awarded honorary life member of Offaly group READY on March 13 when 40 members of the group met for dinner in the Tullamore T. ....
his bio, which i didn t know and was a reporter at the palm beach post in florida where he came across a group of marines who knew bill manchester the famous author of the first two the last lion and as a as a feature writer got to know this group in got to know paul manchester and the rest is history literally because paul went on to take over this book project and write the third volume which has been out for months and is doing very well. i ve had a i have had a chance to read it and it s amazing book if you haven t. so, paul welcome and tell us how this project started and how it came about. thank you. the project began 60 odd years ago as a little boy. i always get confused over that question, where did it begin because it s kind of nebulous but i would say it began with those six marines in 1996 who served on okinawa with bill manchester. they were going to have a reunion in west palm beach florida for surviving members of the sections they called it. though c ....