Eviscerated. And theres the smelling that you never get over, to this day, i when i drive by a cemetery, especially if theyre using recycled water, i really think i can smell the dead bodies. One of the big reasons they took the iwo jimas, they would fly 1,000 miles, but they had to go over iwo jima to get to tokyo. So tokyo, i mean iwo jima would forewarn them by radar and they also had pursuit planes there that could shoot down the inj e injured b29s when they were returning. It got so bad that a friend of mine by the name of general randall who was there, he told me that they had submarines almost every 50 piles between tokyo and saipan to pick up the flyers. The battle for iwo jima, told by the men who were there, today at 5 00 p. M. Eastern. Part of American History tv on cspan 3. I started with teddy roosevelt. I knew so much had been writ bn teddy, i needed another story. I got into taft, knowing he had been friends, knowing they had broken apart in 1912. When i figured out what
Known as hangar 1 at willow run airport. Were in bay 8. And if you look out at about a 45degree angle from here, we see the two doors where the bombers would come off the Assembly Line after they were built. Theres a lot of stories that lead up to the building of this factory. With the war in europe turning hot. When the blitzkrieg took place in the low countries, the u. S. Was totally unprepared. So roosevelt went to congress and said the u. S. Must build 50,000 airplanes to protect itself. Then in the fall of 1940, the battle of britain took place. And the bombers were devastating england. And came out that bombers would be the way that youd have to fight world war ii. And all the Auto Companies were given projects to build engines and airplane parts. Ford Motor Company was given the b24 bomber which was a problematic airplane. It was the newest airplane. Still in development stages and they wanted to mass produce this airplane. So ford said, im not just going to build parts. Ill bui
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