Which well get to later, i should mention, madison called it freedom of the use of the press and it is the freedom to print things and publish things, it is not a freedom for now what we refer to institutionally as the press. Lectures in history, on American History tv on cspan3 every saturday at 8 00 p. M. Eastern. Lectures in history is also available as a podcast. Find it where you listen to podcasts. My name is greg henesy. Im one of the people who give the school tours through the weeks, im in charge of the world war ii section. And this area, the world war ii section that we have set up, represents the type of buildings that we quickly put up at the start of world war ii, and the reason we to quickly put them up was because we were not prepared for war. The u. S. Milt had a less than 350,000 shoulders, that is army, navy and marines combined, no air force yet. They were part of the Army Air Corps. By the he said, we had 17 Million People in the service so we have to build Trainin
Army heritage days is an annual event held in may at Army Education center in carlyle, pennsylvania. Hundreds of hobbyists conduct dd talk to the public about the military from the American Revolution to the war on terror. The theme this year was dday 75th anniversary. Next on american artifacts we visit a living history camp to learn about the experiences of the armys 517th parachute Regimental Combat Team. U. S. Soldiers who fought in the Maritime Alps of france 75 years ago during the autumn of 1944. Good morning. I am part of a Group Representing f company of the 517th parachute regiment part of the unit called the 517th prct short for parachute Regimental Combat Team. It is a largely forgotten, over shadowed unit of the war because it was a smaller unit, numbered about 2500 men throughout the war. It was comprised of three smaller units, the 517th parachute frant regiment, the 596th airborne engineer company and the 460th parachute Field Artillery battalion so those three units to
Outnumbered. This is war. War and its masses. War and its men. War and its machines. Together they formed the big picture. Welcome to the big picture. Im captain carl zimmerman. The big picture is a report to you from your army and an army committed by you, the people of the united states, to stop communist aggression wherever it may strike. The big picture during the next 13 weeks will trace the course of events in the Korean Campaign with firsthand reports from combat veterans and film taken by combat camera men of the army signal corp. These are the man who were daily caught on film, the big picture as it happens, where it happens. Today the big picture brings into focus the first 40 days in korea. It is the beginning of the fighting there. When everidge was a heartbreak ridge. Lets go back to june, 1950, when our troops felt the first thrust across the 38th parallel. This starry is best told in the language of the soldier who was there. This story is hard to tell. Painful. Because
War and its masses. War men its men. This is war. War and its masses. War and its men. War and its machines. Together they formed the big picture. Welcome to the big picture. Im captain Carl Zimmerman. The big picture is a report to you from your army and an army committed by you, the people of the united states, to stop communist aggression wherever it may strike. The big picture during the next 13 weeks will trace the course of events in the Korean Campaign with firsthand reports from combat veterans and film taken by combat camera men of the army signal corp. These are the man who were daily caught on film, the big picture as it happens, where it happens. Today the big picture brings into focus the first 40 days in korea. It is the beginning of the fighting there. When everidge was a heartbreak ridge. Lets go back to june, 1950, when our troops felt the first thrust across the 38th parallel. This story is best told in the language of the soldier who was there. This story is hard to
Forest in the eiffel region of western germany. A forest that harbors the dark past. With a legacy still visible in isolated places. From a time when it was dubbed a green hell. In the closing stages of the 2nd world war it was the scene of bloody fighting between u. S. And German Forces. The path to the western allies advance from belgium into germany lets straight through the forests around the village a field can. For locals the battle is still a key part of their history. This ticket will come to mark it was while riding around here on my bike as a teenager that i really came into contact with the history of the herd conformists its Mission Environment on virtue i would suddenly come across ruins among the trees with Massive Concrete walls. And when i asked my parents they told me they were the remains of bunkers from the 2nd world war. Ringback and once you know what to look for in this wartime landscape you can also see bomb craters trenches and foxholes and the stones stone slus