War and its machine. Together they form the big picture. Welcome to the big picture. Im captain Carl Zimmerman. The big picture is a report to you from your army, an army committed by you, the people of the United States, to stop communist aggression wherever it may strike. The big picture traces the course of events in the Korean Campaign through firsttime reports of our combat veterans and through film taken by combat cameramen. These are the men who daily record on film the big picture as it happens, where it happens. Today our big picture brings into focus the turning of the tide. Youll see our fight to hold on to the perimeter. Youll see air support from our carriers, the invasion and the march of seoul. And youll hear a firsttime report from a lieutenant, a platoon leader with the armys 24th Infantry Division. Now, lets go back to august 1970. On 10 august after 47 days of fighting in korea, the tide of battle is ebbing and flowing for both sides. United nations forces are dug in
Leaked evidence of a russian troll far marches but ive got to have comments. Bild thought they had a bombshell the makings of an International Scandal heres the meat of it build that published a report about how the socialists the s. P. D. Was trying to buy the services of the mythical russian troll factory its a huge it would be the first direct evidence of russian meddling in german politics here the actors kevin kuhn are head of the s. P. D. Youth wing who is running a campaign against forming a coalition with angular merkel the no grow Cold Campaign yuri a mysterious russian agent offering the services of an online army under his control to spread the message what build got their hands on was the email exchange between them it reads wonderfully cold words mistrust secret meetings like something out of a spy a movie did kevin im ury id like to talk to you about supporting your no grow Cold Campaign thanks for your mail jay already told me to expect a mile from you but just to be sur
Next on American History tv, from the u. S. Naval academy in annapolis, maryland, for historians discuss the challenges of naval logistics for the Fledgling Navy during the revolutionary war. The scholars detail how the American Navy successfully cooperated with a much larger french navy to help defeat the british by 1781. This u. S. Naval Academy Program is about one hour and 20 minutes. Professor smith good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for being here today. This is a session on naval logistics and the American Revolution. My name is gene smith and i will be the chair. Today we have three papers and comments by dr. Glenn williams. Our first paper is by tom long, who is an assistant professor and coordinator of history in the department of George Washington university. He joined the u. S. Navy. He graduated from Harvard Law School in 1970 in practice Corporate Banking law until he retired. Afterwards, he went back and got a phd in history from George Washington university. He teaches
The Royal United Services Institute Westminster metal. In fact, if you look at all of his books on world war ii, paris after the liberation or the fall of berlin, all of them have garnered awards because of the work he has done. His latest book, 1944, hitlers last gamble was published in may. It went straight to number one in the sunday times bestsellers list and it stayed there for about five weeks. His former chairman of the society of authors, he is received honorary doctorates from the university, he is a visiting professor at the university of kent. Please try me in welcoming him. [applause]. Thank you. After the liberation of paris at the end of august 1944, the allies indulged and to create euphoria as they raced towards the german frontier. Spoken formations were falling back in holland and entered germany be behind the line. Americans, british and canadian generals were convinced that this was just like the german army collapse in the late summer of 1918. Then, in midseptember
Each week, and American Historys real america gives you archival films that help tell the 20th century. In the last of fivepart look at hollywood directors who made films for the u. S. Government during world war ii we feature , john huston and the battle of san pietro, a 32 minute u. S. Army film. It depicted the december, 1943 battle which destroyed the town of san pietro, italy. Praise at the time the film was , composed entirely of reenacted scenes. We speak with film historian mark harris. The book is titled five came back a story of hollywood and the second world war. Joining us from new york is mark harris. As he look at some of the leading directors, including john huston. What can you tell us about him . He was a fascinating larger than life figure. His career in hollywood was just starting when the war broke out. He had a neredowell adolescence. His reputation was not great. He had been involved in a few car crashes. He fled to paris at one point. He came back to hollywood an