Symposium. Okay. Im very pleased to introduce our last speaker for the afternoon. Jeffrey william hunt is the director of the texas museum in mayberry and adjunct professor at Austin Community college where hes taught since 19 8, got bless you. Mr. Hunt is an author of the last battle of the civil war and a contributor to the central war. American civil war. His last work is from the final stage of the Gettysburg Campaign to 1863 and the final volume is due for publication coming out next year. So lets give a welcome for jeffrey hunt. [ applause ] thank you. Its a real pleasure. I appreciate jerrys invitation. Its always fun to stand before a group of people who have the same passion as you do. You dont get looked at as strangely when you talk to other people, and im going to break precedent apparently today and have a powerpoint demonstration. And im doing that for several reasons. Jerry did it last night. I dont want him to feel all weird doing that alone. Second, pamplin spent a lot
I basically consider myself an amateur military historian. I do various impressions, and this impression here today is to represent the contribution of the soviet union as an ally of the americans and the british to helping them win world war ii. We have to give either equal credit to our allies. Some would say we couldnt have done it by ourselves. The point is people ask me why do i do this impression . And i think because the reason is that we need to tell the story about the eastern front. Okay . If you dont understand what happened on the eastern front, you dont understand world war ii. The soviets made a significant contribution to winning that war. Now, for example, what i normally do is, on my display on the table over here, i have a National Geographic magazine. Its dated may of 1944. The first article in it has to do with the libber aches of the ukraine. The point being, the significance of that is that, of course, one month later we had dday. And the point, the relationship o
Center in carlisle, pennsylvania. Hundreds of living history hobists are selected by the center to conduct demonstrations and talk to the public about military subjects, ranging from the American Revolution to the war on terror. The theme this year was the 75th anniversary of dday. Next, on american artifacts, we visit an exhibit about world war ii, soviet soldiers. My name is craig hall. I basically consider myself an amateur military historian. I do various impressions, and this impression here today is to represent the contribution of the soviet union as an ally of the americans and the british to helping them win world war ii. We have to give either equal credit to our allies. Some would say we couldnt have done it by ourselves. The point is people ask me why do i do this impression . And i think because the reason is that we need to tell the story about the eastern front. Okay . If you dont understand what happened on the eastern front, you dont understand world war ii. The soviet
We have to give equal credit to our allies. The point is that people ask me why do i do this impression. And i think because we need to tell the story about the Eastern Front. If you dont understand what happened on the Eastern Front you, dont understand world war ii. For example what i normally do is on my display on the table over here, i have a National Geographic magazine. Its dated may of 1944. It has to do with the liberation of the ukraine. Dday. And the relationship of the soviet contribution was that as of that date, when you liberate the ukraine, you push the germans out of the country. So by that point in time, one month before dday, we had been occupying 65 maybe of the best german troops fighting us. If we hadnt done that, if we had failed in moscow, or solid ground, all of those troops could well have been under normandy beaches. The story that has to be told is that thats a significant contribution to winning the war. It needs to be explained to us as americans. Because
Basically consider myself an amateur military historian. I do various impressions. This impression here today is to represent the contribution of the soviet union as an ally of the americans and the british, to helping them win world war ii. We have to give equal credit to our allies. Some would say, we couldnt have done it by ourselves, but the point is and people asked me why do i do this impression. I think because the reason is that we need to tell the story about the eastern front. If you dont understand what happened on the eastern front, you dont understand world war ii. The soviets made a significant contribution to winning that war. Now, for example, what i normally do is, on my display on the table over here, i have a National Geographic magazine dated may, 1944. The first article in it has to do with the liberation of the ukraine. The point being, the significance of that is that, of course, one month later, we had dday. And the point the relationship of the soviet contribut