Im oliver north. Welcome to war stories. Were at the National Museum of naval aviation. And this is the flighter flown by vmf214, the squadron known as the black sheep. For 84 days between september of 1943 and january of 44, the men of the black sheep squadron used this aircraft. In 1976, their exploits become a tv series called ba ba black sheep. As youre about to discover, the only real things in it were the name of the squadron and the corsair that they flew. The bloody battle for guadalcanal marked the beginning of a new strategy for allied forces in the pacific. The campaign was originally a defensive move to secure australia. But with a stunning defeat of Japanese Forces there, a bold new war plan began to develop. And the key to its success ran through the japanese strong hold of the island of new britain. This is where the first offensive is getting going for the war. Historian bruce gamble is the author of the biography of pappy. The pacific was closed until this island would
One of their favorite sons, ed gillepsie losing virginia a gubernatorial race. And losing it by 9 points, after he decided not to embrace populist President Trumps winning policies. Well take it up with ed rollins and michael goodwin. Our top story, house and Senate Committees scrambling to markup their tax bills, expected to unveil their measures tomorrow. But chairman of house, ways and Means Committee can now working on a socalled managers amendment, that means chairman kevin brady is writing up the bill that will be released, we believe, tomorrow, whether he decides t to rewrite most or so, keel found out, House Committee also revealing the swamp at work, deeming with a new dealing with a new 74 billion dollar revenue gap after an amendment cut excise tax that had been planned to discourage Multinational Companies from move their profits out of country, lawmaker, bow to pressure of, lobbiest, leaving a 74 billion hole and new no impediment to transfer of that capital from the home
Mushroom pillory party reports from the front line in the ukraine. Conflict does artillery a fire day and night by both sides with ukrainian batteries, reportedly hitting residential areas. The police and military are in high alerts while protesters occupy the Parliament Building for a 3rd day in a coalition. Currently try to form the next government the across the globe around the clock. This is our team or national. Lets get to our new story today. What was threatening to become a confrontation, the clash in the north of the self proclaimed republic, of course of all has been avoided following the decision by christina to postpone a controversial decision bombing entry to any one with serbian documents. The u. Turn comes after a day of turmoil on sunday, which saw arrayed siren sounding in serv Populated Areas and reported gunshots with several people taken to hospital your side. The situation looked on the ground. Oh. B i me well the situation in the contested region began after pla