Part of a twoday symposium hosted by the National World war i museum and memorial in kansas city, missouri. I would like to introduce our next speaker of the day, dr. An associate, professor of history at the United States army command and general Staff College at Fort Leavenworth kansas. Prior to this position, he was an active duty marine Corps Officer and retired in 2009 as a Lieutenant Colonel after 22 years of service. Today, we have the honor to welcome his welcome him for his talk that will explain how forces battled for air superiority during world war i. Listen truly for how he will how skyfought battles lead to the modern development of the concept of total war. Welcomeoin me in a warm for dr. John curatola. Thank you. I appreciate the introduction. If you notice when she went down my biography, im a marine officer who works at an army school who studies airpower, so i have kind of a schizophrenic background on that. Today, we will look at airpower as it pertains to 1916. Fir
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Stephen harding targets an american soldier and the final flight through japan in the book last to die. Publishers weekly calls the book a meticulously researched tale. While harding expresses a commitment as a journalist and historian to remaining objective and not emotionally attached to the individual stories to be told, he admits to his personal connection with tony from his service in the vietnam war to his detailed journalism of American Military affairs, harding is very well suited to share tonys legacy of patriotism. Stephen harding is the author of eight previous books including the New York Times bestseller the last battle, he is a longtime journalist, for nearly two decades, he was on the staff of u. S. Soldiers, the initial newspaper of the u. S. Army. Currently, he is the editor this chief of military history magazine. His contributions on defense topics in aviation, military and maritime history, have appeared in the San Francisco chronicle, air and space smithsonian, wor
Next military historian Stephen Harding recalls the death of the last american killed in combat in world war ii. [inaudible conversations] hello everybody, welcome tonight. This is politics and prose at busboys and poets. I am here hosting the event with Stephen Harding and his book last to die. I want to make a short note. Tonight we have cspan live here filming the event so we will have them here. Also just to make you aware we have politics and prose are sponsoring this event. We are in three new busboys locations. We host events here and we are here at the tacoma location and also at the birkeland location so you can see us there as well. One of the great benefit to being here you can order food throughout the event and love to have you do that. You can purchase the book at the front of the store. As i mentioned tonight we have Stephen Harding here. World war ii in japan officially ended in ceasefire but there were a few final moments the americans Stephen Harding chronicles tony m
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