Series. And keybattlefields events, american artifacts, touring museums and historic sites. Discover what artifacts reveal about americas past. Thepresidency, looking at policies and legacies of americas commanders in chief. And our new series, real america, featuring educational films from the 1930s through the 1970s. Cspan3, created by the cable tv industry and funded by your local satellite provider. Each week, American History reel america ring your photos. Bringing home the lesson of pearl harbor. From hardwon open our, from the plains of the third and fifth fleets, japan came under the inevitable rain of ruin. Ally c forces moving up to the japanese home islands shall the mainland almost without opposition. Hammering the enemy to its knees, but the worse to come. The destructive atomic bomb, the First Mission the Industrial City of hiroshima. Second mission, the port of nagasaki. Japan had its choice, complete surrender complete ruin. At potts dam, even as they laid the foundatio
Reverse itself. We are going to turn back a little bit to the beginning of the american participation in the war and take that right through dday. The next time we will do the dday invasion. There are the bases in east anglia. It is only about 60 miles from london but it might as well be six centuries away. As i say in the book, it is shaped like a giant hachette aimed at nazi, germany. Flying across from here this is the closest in england that you can run a bomber operation. The fighter boys were down here. The british raf pilots and Bomber Command was north near york. I have this map in your book. It is pretty good although it is not in color. You have the ranges of the fighter aircraft. How far they could get roundtrip from england. That tells you the course of the year were. Air war. In the beginning, the americans could only do shallow penetration missions. If youre trying to knock out uboats then, and that is featured in the great film, 12 00 high. They are mostly british spitfi
Water as a precaution. Lets look again. You are looking at anything but normal yard activity for inmates after an outbreak prison authorities turned off the plumbing and brought in port opotties creating long lines in places. You have enough in there . I believe we have enough. For how many inmates . About 2,000 are utilizing the port apotties. One for every 200 men. San quinton confirmed after testing an inmate. Now roughly two dozen inmates have the severe flulike symptoms which include headaches, chills, fever, shortness of breath and nausea. The source of the outbreak is unknown but it comes through bacteria in water. Inside this means no showering for inmates. It means no inmate transfers to or from other prisons. It means no visitors possibly through the weekend and means more Correctional Officers on duty to escort inmates seeking relief. What is the average wait for a restroom at this point . I think it is pretty fluid. Reporter for now inmates are drinking bottled water. Karen
Retiring as supreme allied Commander Europe and retiring from the navy. Has been the dean of the fletch are school of law and diplomacy and Tufts University in boston. The very same place that he got his doctorate. He has been given 15 prestigious civilian awards from around the world for his work and within the last year, within the last 11 months, he has been considered for a Vice President ial pick by one Political Party and as secretary of state by another Political Party. I fine that probably one of [laughter] when Jim Stavridis speaks, people listen carefully and im glad to see so many people here tonight who have come to listen to him speak all of this experience, out at sea, and the shore, as given him deep insight about the global state of affairs that we face today. We are very fortunate to have him here tonight witch hi newest book sea power which is can not wait to read. Ladies and gentlemen, jim staff individual dis. Thank you very much. Normally when people hear that intr
The ocean is the british used to say who know a thing or two about naval the british say the oceans are one. They connect everywhere. So tonight as we talk about the oceans i invite you to think about 70 that water world that we inhabit today. What im going to do is very quickly im going to take 20 minutes and were going to walk through the ocean of the world and try to tie it together with the challenges we face and then what we ought to do about it. So lets start with the pacific ocean. This is a 1589 chart of the pacific by a a photographer bottom right you see who voyaged 5,000 miles, 10,000 years ago to inhabit the pacific. You know as i got ready to get underway with in san diego in my 500 i said to my crew the pacific is dangerous. We have to really be on our toes. [laughter] can you imagine getting in an a outrigger and sailing 5,000 miles . The polynesians did this. This is the largest of the ocean. The pacific you dont have to remember these numbers but pacific is 170 million