Narrator this is the pacific as you know it, wide stretches of water, but this is the pacific as the joint chief of staffs view it, a battlefield, a vast fortressstudded plane on which the japanese defend the heart of the homeland. It is the most heavily fortified island in the world. This was the most heavily heavily fortified island in the world. Buried deep underground, the jap preparations for murder. 20,000 fighting men waited for us to make the first move. And they dont have to wait long. [explosions] the navy begins to soften up the island so we can land. [explosions] planes from our Carrier Force take off to strafe and bomb. [machine gun fire] [explosions] gunboats move in close to work over enemy beach installations. [machine gun fire] enemy fire gets closer. [heavy gunfire] dday, the beginning of the toughest 26 days in marine corps history. We watch the Center Control vessels. When this flag drops, our Landing Craft will head to the beach. [artillery explosions] 500 Landing
You know it, wide stretches of water, but this is the pacific as the joint chief of staffs view it, a battlefield, a vast fortressstudded plain on which the japanese defend the heart of the homeland. It is the most heavily fortified island in the world. Buried deep underground lay 20 years of jap preparations for murder. 20,000 of their toughest fighting men waited for us to make the first move. And they dont have to wait long. [explosions] the navy begins to soften up the island so we can land. [explosions] planes from our Carrier Force take off to strafe and bomb. [machine gun fire] [explosions] [airplane engines whining] [explosions] gunboats move in close to work over enemy beach installations. [machine gun fire] enemy fire gets closer. [heavy gunfire] [explosions] dday, beginning of the toughest 26 days in marine corps history. We watch the Center Control vessels. When this flag drops, our Landing Craft will head to the beach. [artillery explosions] 500 Landing Craft in 10 waves a
Dont think it is enough to contextualize. Because people are not going to stop and read what is on a plaque. If it is on a monument or on monument avenue, or some other place, i say, remove them, take them down, put them in a museum and contextualize it. I dont believe in destroying history, that history doesnt have to be in my face all the time. And it certainly doesnt have to that i amic lands helping, my taxes are helping to pay for. If it is in someones home or someones personal property, that is their business. But if it is a public space, it should not be there. If i am expected to maintain it. More about then people and events that shaped the civil war and reconstruction every saturday at 6 p. M. Eastern only on American History tv, here on cspan3. On february 19, 1945, the u. S. Navy, coast guard and marines launched an invasion of a heavily fortified Pacific Island called iwo jima. Next on reel america, filmed in color by u. S. Service members and edited by warner bros. Studio
Place at a crimean resort in ukraine. This talk is part of a World War Ii Museum symposium marking the 75th anniversary of the yalta talks between winston churchill, Franklin Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin. Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. For our next event, it is more or less the key note of the day because it is the talk on the yalta conference, although all of the sessions will be wonderful. We have Serhii Plokhii here, the director of the ukrainian history and director of Research Institute at harvard. As i mentioned this morning, he has been on our list for a long time and we finally found the time to bring him down here to enlighten us. His titles include the last empire, thethe cossack myth, and the forgotten pastors of the Eastern Front, and yalta for peace. Ladies and gentlemen, dr. Serhii plokhii. [applause] mr. Collins, thank you very much for this introduction. Thanks to the organizers of the conference for bringing me here. I also want to thank all of you because carmen f
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