Volume series on the pacific during world war ii. In our the doolittle raid of 1942 that were carried out in response to japans bombing of pearl harbor. Welcome to the National World war ii museums evening presentation webinar. My neighbors Jeremy Collins and for those of you watching on zoom, some brief housekeeping remarks. You are an attendee of our zoom event tonight. That means you do not have video or audio privileges but you can interact with our moderator and guest i writing your question in the q a box. The moderator would be reviewing those during the question and answer session which will conclude tonight program. Now to introduce the moderator its my pleasure to pass this program over to dr. Rob citino. Thanks, jeremy. Dr. Rob citino here, seeing history of the National World war ii museum, beautiful new orleans, louisiana. We have a special guest with us tonight, a friend of the museum, my friend and a wonderful writer and author, ian toll. Welcome. Iq, rob. Ian toll is on
We have a special guest with us tonight my friend and a wonderful writer and author. Ian toll doesnt really need an introduction it should be very long and to be extremely accomplished the author of six books as well the pacific war the third volume has been released 19441945 from the naval of the United States will writing the writers award so those anymore Samuel Eliot Morrison was out there that thank you so much with the twilight of the gods. Its my pleasure. I am struck by the book this is a big story of the western pacific but you began this book in an interesting way of looking at fdr and douglas macarthur. I will expand on my question. Military history there is the expectation and in this case almost 100 pages into the book. And the unconventional way to begin work of military history i thought it had a little bit of latitude in the case that they are committed to read it or not and with that observation with the pacific war there is a lot of literature and i went to say there
1941. The nazi blitzkrieg had overwhelmed france, holland, belgium, denmark, norway, and luxembourg. Russian armies were in desperate retreat. The German Air Force was raining death and destruction on england. Combined italian and German Forces were menacing. Their objective . To defeat an opposing british army and dominate all our forces. In asia, japanese air and Ground Forces were driving forward in their funding conquest of china. He only one of the worlds major powers was still not we at war, the United States. It was a sunday afternoon in december 19, 41. The statue of liberty towered serenely over new york harbor. She where the last symbol of freedom left in the crumbling free world. Early morning in hawaii, and another great harbinger, American Warships where anchored. Planes with engines stood idle nearby. Suddenly, without warning, the immediate Japanese Military objective was to knock out the United States naval and air power in the pacific in a single stroke. They reason th
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