It was discovered, among other fragments of these in the Delaware River in, the early 20th century, and some research by craig nanos and others has pretty well establish that it was lost when a troop transport went under in may of human march of 1778 in the Delaware River, and no one drowned all of the soldiers on board survived. But obviously a bunch of their things stayed in the river. They were dredged up, are on display. Other pieces of that same material are on display in the corps galleries. So tonight we have the privilege of welcoming fredricka bear, who is associate professor of history and division, head for arts and humanities at Pennsylvania State university, abington. Her research focuses on the experience of german speaking people in north from the revolutionary period to the late 19th century. Her publications prior to tonight include the monograph the trial of frederick avril language patriotism and citizenship ship in philadelphias german community. 1792 1830, which wa
Nip of hersey castle. It was discovered, among other fragments of these in the Delaware River in, the early 20th century, and some research by craig nanos and others has pretty well establish that it was lost when a troop transport went under in may of human march of 1778 in the Delaware River, and no one drowned all of the soldiers on board survived. But obviously a bunch of their things stayed in the river. They were dredged up, are on display. Other pieces of that same material are on display in the corps galleries. So tonight we have the privilege of welcoming fredricka bear, who is associate professor of history and division, head for arts and humanities at Pennsylvania State university, abington. Her research focuses on the experience of german speaking people in north from the revolutionary period to the late 19th century. Her publications prior to tonight include the monograph the trial of frederick avril language patriotism and citizenship ship in philadelphias german communit
Then they would need more ships to protect those transports during the crossing. More ships would keep them supplied not only with arms and bullets but also with cocacola and hershey bars and newspapers. Cigarettes. That couldre ships take that force and bring it across the channel and landed on an opposed beach. Apart from all that, they would still need more ships, thousands of more ships, to fight another war in the Pacific Ocean ocean halfway around the world against the japanese. That voracious demand for shipping in particular was the singular greatest pediment and bottleneck in allied planning and execution of dday landing. Without the ships, planning for any of that was an exercise in futility. In short, the story of dday is 20 minutesrrific seen that we see at the opening of saving private ryan. That moment of unimaginable on the and sacrifice landing beaches. It was also the years of training asilding, well as the landing. The first element of it is a strategic one. There is
Scheduled training today over the strip between claiborne and schooled to work under fire in combat areas. They furnish their own security. When they hit trouble, it is their mission to repair the damage and keep the train running. [explosion] after the damage is estimated, the call for repair crews goes from the signal man to the clay form operator to the dispatcher. The crew pulls out. Some of them travel overland and trucks. Some of them come up along the rails on handcarts. Bulldozers leveled the land and freight cars bring up new rail. A stretch of track carrying supplies can be the lifeline of the army. Long reaches of track and slowmoving trains can be sabotaged. Men trained on the claiborne line have already done vital work under fire in establishing and maintaining supply lines on the battlefields of africa and europe. They are reconditioning lines destroyed by the enemy. The importance of this work increases as the lines cuts deeper into europe and their army moves further in
To go back to europe. If it could happen at all, the allies first had to recruit the enormous armies, train them, build the planes, tanks, trucks, jeeps, artillery pieces, and above all the would need to build the ships that would carry 2 million americans across the ocean and channel with all the supplies and ammunition. Then they would need more ships to protect those transports during the crossing. More ships would keep them supplied not only with arms and bullets but also with cocacola and hershey bars and newspapers. Cigarettes. And then more ships that could take that force and bring it across the channel and landed on an opposed beach. Apart from all that, they would still need more ships, thousands of more ships, to fight another war in the Pacific Ocean halfway around the world against the japanese. That voracious demand for shipping in particular was the singular greatest pediment and bottleneck in allied planning and execution of dday landing. Without the ships, planning for