Series. And keybattlefields events, american artifacts, touring museums and historic sites. Discover what artifacts reveal about americas past. Thepresidency, looking at policies and legacies of americas commanders in chief. And our new series, real america, featuring educational films from the 1930s through the 1970s. Cspan3, created by the cable tv industry and funded by your local satellite provider. Each week, American History reel america ring your photos. Bringing home the lesson of pearl harbor. From hardwon open our, from the plains of the third and fifth fleets, japan came under the inevitable rain of ruin. Ally c forces moving up to the japanese home islands shall the mainland almost without opposition. Hammering the enemy to its knees, but the worse to come. The destructive atomic bomb, the First Mission the Industrial City of hiroshima. Second mission, the port of nagasaki. Japan had its choice, complete surrender complete ruin. At potts dam, even as they laid the foundatio
Reverse itself. We are going to turn back a little bit to the beginning of the american participation in the war and take that right through dday. The next time we will do the dday invasion. There are the bases in east anglia. It is only about 60 miles from london but it might as well be six centuries away. As i say in the book, it is shaped like a giant hachette aimed at nazi, germany. Flying across from here this is the closest in england that you can run a bomber operation. The fighter boys were down here. The british raf pilots and Bomber Command was north near york. I have this map in your book. It is pretty good although it is not in color. You have the ranges of the fighter aircraft. How far they could get roundtrip from england. That tells you the course of the year were. Air war. In the beginning, the americans could only do shallow penetration missions. If youre trying to knock out uboats then, and that is featured in the great film, 12 00 high. They are mostly british spitfi
Entry into world war ii. Coming up next, ceremony commemorating the anniversary at the National World war two memorial in washington, d. C. The event honored veterans and arizona senator john mccain gave the keynote address. This is an hour. Ladies and gentlemen, please be seated. Now we will go through the reading of the veterans, introducing them and theyll be presented their quote of valor. If the veterans can stand, please do so, if not remain in your chairs. The first is mr. William planthearse, entered the army from new york and arrived at barracks in hawaii in december 1939. He was part of the Field Artillery and later changed to the 89th infantry division. Second section battery b. He was there during the attack and later boarded the ship president grant as a gunner tert in july 1942 to go to the canal and evacuated in 1943. Received the purple heart and with one bronze star in asianic Pacific Campaign metal and purple heart survivor. Ladies and gentlemen, mr. William. Second w
The markets desk, where julie hyman is tracking the moves. The fed, the doj, with big corporate m a deals. Julie it has become a busier week today with microsoft and linkedin, yet today it seems like faster tracking oil prices, not necessarily those other events. When oil started to make a recovery, we saw stock to the same. Now stocks are tracking right along with it. Alternate day averages briefly in the red after going briefly positive midmorning. The nasdaq is now down three quarters of 1 . Take a look at whats going on within the groups here. Overall the s p 500 is tracking oil prices, trajectory why is it does remain higher. Tech shares are weighing the most on the s p. Taking a look at the big cap within the group thats falling, microsoft declining after ring to buy linkedin and apple shares shareshe report that will fall 8. 6 yearoveryear. Facebook has been lower, missing a price here for some reason. A bit of a glitch going on here. But they did say they were shorting shares o
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