Strength of more than 50,000 troops has managed to stalemate both the 24th army corps and the marine Third Amphibious corps, which has arrived from the north to support them. From the capital city of naha, the enemy defense line runs unbroken for four miles like a stone wall to the east coast. Along this line, marine troops faced the concentrated fire of japanese artillery, which has been the most effective yet encountered in any pacific operation. [gunfire] [gunfire] here are armored units that operate over terrain that is tactically advantageous to the japanese. Volcanic outcroppings and coral knobs enable the enemy to go from one fortified ridge to another. The cliffside emplacements and observation points go over most of the terrain, comprising a stubborn rathole Defense System which must be overcome point by point. Our artillery delivers heavy fire on the central strong point of the enemys defense line, the garrison village of shuri, which is too heavily fortified for frontal assa
We travel to bryanCollege Station texas. Coming up will feature the citys local authors including Nikki Van Hightower. Then 12 minutes would visit the museum of the american g. I. And about the role Elvis Presley played in the Cold War Army in the 1950s. Later in about 45 minutes the story of the the hello girls of world war i. We begin our special feature with the mayors of bryan and College Station. One of the wonderful thinks about bryanCollege Station come get to cities, one community. The universe you start in the 1870s, the city of brian start a couple years before. Really right after the civil war. There was a railroad from houston that was marching its way here come stop before the civil war and then after the civil war it continued on and brian for the first years after the civil war struggled to get it selfcreated but was able to do that. In 1876 the University Got its first six students and the city of brian was really getting going and airy you see around us today are still
Book, captives of liberty prisoners of war and the politics of vengeance in the American Revolution history professor t. Cole jones illustrates inhumane conditions inside 18thcentury prison camps and examines how the Continental Congress dealt with the problem of thousands of pows, a population that sometimes outnumbered the American Army. Next, professor jones discusses his book at the American Revolution institute of the society of the cincinnati. Dir. Mccallister clark good evening, everyone. Its so nice to see you here this evening. So many good old friends and new faces. I am ellen mccallister clark, the Library Director at the American Revolution institute of the society of cincinnati. It is my very special pleasure tonight to be the one to introduce t. Cole jones, who us thisspeaking to evening about his new book captives of liberty prisoners of war and the politics of vengeance in the American Revolution, which has just come out from the university of pennsylvania press. We hav
Liberty, prisoners of war and the politics of vengeance in the American Revolution which has just come out from the university of pennsylvania press. We have known professor jones, cole, since 2010 when he received a society of the cincinnati scholars grant to conduct research in our library in support of his doctoral dissertation on enemy prisoners of war in revolutionary america. We have since followed his career and accomplishments with great interest and admiration. He received his ph. D. From Johns Hopkins in 2014, went on to hold post doctoral fellowships at the American Society and the New York Historical society and since 2015 he has been assistant professor of history at purdue university. Captives of liberty is an important and thought provoking book that examines how the founding generation of americans grappled with the problems of prisoner treatment during the eightyear conflict. American forces captured more than 17,000 british and allied germanic soldiers as well as thou
The National World War Ii Museum hosted the event. Well, greetings, ladies and gentlemen. It is a pleasure to see you all here and it is always great to see i dont want to say so many probably all are familiar faces and we saw most of you in november and we hope to see most of you again in november and in between in september for our memory conference. As steven is said, unfortunately dr. Stoller tried his best, slipped on the way and caught his balance. But all three flights from berlington, vermont, were cancelled to get him here yesterday. And while we are disappointed, he is even more disappointed that he couldnt make it back down here and present. But i can tell you that we are very fortunate in this great city of new orleans to have one of the leading scholars in this field in gunther bischof here to fill the breach and enlighten us with the first panel of the day. Gunther has been a friend since before we had a building. Not just a hotel. But an actual museum. He goes back with