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14,246 americans are buried outside a quiet village in northeastern france at the meuseargonne American Cemetery. I American History tv visited there with french battlefield guide Guillaume Moizan and historian mitchell a. Yockelson to learn about the 47 they world war one battle that ended with the armistice november 11 1918 and resulted in over 26,000 american deaths. There are more than 14,200 graves here. Many of them who died in meuseargonne American Cemetery area. But there are also some civilians another soldiers that were brought from other areas . Yes. Most of the soldiers here died a...

Gardening is one of my greatest delights. This weekend on American History tv on cspan3. Veteran norman about his time serving as a cameraman for the last norman hatch talked about his time later he discusses serving as part of the allied occupation force of japan and seeing the devastation caused by the atomic bomb on nagasaki. The World War Ii Museum conducted this interview in 2013 for its oral history collection. This is the second of a twopart interview. Nobody but a few men had been in combat before. My main job was to teach the photographers that were there as a division protrump sectio...

Died in the meuseargonne area, but there were also some civilians and other soldiers brought from other areas. Yes, but basically, most of the soldiers here died during the meuseargonne. It was grammatical for that battle. It was over 26,000 soldiers killed, 96,000 wounded, more or less. Almost half a percent of the soldiers are buried in that france cemetery. We have a few civilians, maybe we will see some graves later on. Especially nurses, people from the american red cross, ymca, graves we will see walking in the graveyard. The cemetery itself were graves consolidated from smaller cemeteri...

Arthur godfrey for example. It was a big thing. I told him i liked it very much. So we got cleaned up and out the door. He said i want to tell you one more thing. He said you be good to the corps, and it will be good to you. I never forgot those words. And so from there, there had been applications posted on the Bulletin Board in the stuff that you read every day about a new school in new york for the march of time. You know the march of time . It was a leading newsreel film of the day. It was a half hour show produced only once a month and it was about anything in the world. That was good bec...

Senior means age, not rank. They review the manuscripts and make a recommendation to the director of the book program, and then the wheels start rolling. The negotiation with the publisher goes on between the book Program Director and the author himself. Weve got a nice stable of printing houses, universities, and other organizations that produce our books. As a bit of history, in the audience in the back, dr. Roger cirillo, who was really the genesis, start of this years book program. A number of years ago when it came under attack, we brought roger in and he resolved it and kept it running. ...