Mr. Jackson year on thank you very much. Thank you and good morning, welcome to the mcgowan theater, we are here to salute american icons the tuskegee airmen, please allow me to introduce the panel. And then we will come back here from our panelists, and they will ask the field to give questions, i may recite the question a timer to just required a. Lets start with the person closest to me with the blue cap, Lieutenant Colonel robert friend. Next to him, harold browns. Lieutenant colonel george hardy, Lieutenant Colonel alexander jefferson. Lieutenant colonel, james h. Harvey the third. And are closer, Lieutenant Colonel harrison. This lets her start, he was born in the first guess he was born in south carolina. Girlfriend, we will yield the floor to you, and then we will ask our friends in the audience to give you questions, lets have a round of applause for our first panelist. Colonel friend just give us a brief history about you i was always interested in flying and when the chances
Washington who is author of tonights book , boss of the grips, the life of James H Williams and the red caps of Grand Central terminal. This is part of an ongoing series of programs posted in conjunction with our series the ballad of harlem. If youve not had a chance to look at the exhibition it will be up through the end of december. There are all these things inside the exhibition that i think you will hear about tonight and also it might feed your own historical knowledge about how the ballot for harlem examines several strands of black place making in the 20th century offering viewsof president s and institutions dedicated to education , politicalengagements , cultural affirmation and creativity. The exhibition as i was mentioning earlier highlights includes the brotherhood of sleeping car porters which was the first union of black workers particularly plowman porters and youll also find selections from ruby dee and aussie davises collection which we recentlyacquired. Also items fr
Far eastern history from the university of london, and his phd in japanese history from princeton university. He has been the secretary of the navy fellow and visiting professor of strategy and policy at the u. S. Naval war college. Usking professor at the trillion Defense Force academy, where he was a senior fulbright fellow, and a visiting scholar to the National Japanese center in kyoto. He studied the comparative history of war, specializing in Japanese Military institutions and the social and cultural transformation of japan. War, coauthor of japan at in world history, a New York Times best book of the year, and published widely on japanese war experience in english and japanese. Please welcome dr. Ted cook. [applause] prof. Cook its a great privilege again to once more at theo my friends military affairs symposium, which has been a home for me for many, many years. Not quite from the beginning, but close to the beginning. Ince we moved, my wife and moved to new york and number of
Occasion. We begin tonight [inaudible conversations] avec program appropriately with a presentation of colors followed by the singing of the National Anthem please rise. The osage nuc via the dawn dawns ey light what so proudly we hailed at the twilights last gleaming whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight or the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming and the rockets red glare the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that our flag was still there of status that starspangled banner yet wave music mac or the land of the free and the home of the brave please thank the honor guard and ken kaplan for that special tribute to the nation. Please be seated. Ladies and gentlemen, i am the event director for the Richard Nixon foundation and its a pleasure to have you over here tonight. Thursday of last week marked the 75th anniversary of the operation overlord, the largest invasion in history and a turning point of world war ii. A day that is rememb
Railroads in the usa what happened this time and if threat to peoples lives . Lets start with the latest news about the special Operation Zone in the area, work on the grouping of our troops to the east destroyed the leopard tank and the bradley infantry fighting vehicle with kamikaze drones, the lancet in zaporozhye in the direction of our artillery hit an m77 howitzer and a warehouse, ammunition fighters of the group of troops towards the center managed to thwart eight attempts to fully attack russian positions , more than a hundred militants were destroyed, a su34 bomber of a group of Russian Troops. West bill on enemy military facilities in the kuplensky direction the temporary deployment point and command and control functions were destroyed the enemy lost two platoons zaporozhye. On the way, the general heard a report on the situation and the actions of the Russian Troops in the orekhovo region, this is a sector of the front. One of the most intense battles going on there, gerasi