Lieutenant James Robinson was largely for godness is family new that he had a medal. But this is one of those Amazing Stories that that had been just kind of forgotten over time in the enormity of the war. And so our researchers had uncovered this i mean, you know, and i just want to kind of highlight it lieutenant James Robinson was a ford observer attached to an empty company in the 60 Third Infantry Division in the european theater of operations. On april 6 1945 during a fierce battle in southern germany lieutenant robinson rallied the troops. Led the counter attack with a 78 pound field radio on its back. So thats the thing in the in the program. Its Pretty Amazing and took command of the remnants of the empty company. The Company Commander had been killed the platoon leader was wounded. And he shouted the words that american soldiers continued to echo on battlefields today. Lets go. The company down to 19 soldiers were ordered to continue the attack against superior numbers. So ss
Lieutenant James Robinson was largely for godness is family new that he had a medal. But this is one of those Amazing Stories that that had been just kind of forgotten over time in the enormity of the war. And so our researchers had uncovered this i mean, you know, and i just want to kind of highlight it lieutenant James Robinson was a ford observer attached to an empty company in the 60 Third Infantry Division in the european theater of operations. On april 6 1945 during a fierce battle in southern germany lieutenant robinson rallied the troops. Led the counter attack with a 78 pound field radio on its back. So thats the thing in the in the program. Its Pretty Amazing and took command of the remnants of the empty company. The Company Commander had been killed the platoon leader was wounded. And he shouted the words that american soldiers continued to echo on battlefields today. Lets go. The company down to 19 soldiers were ordered to continue the attack against superior numbers. So ss
And helped bring about the end of the war. His class is about 55 minutes. Have a seat, thanks. All right. Folks, todays lesson is a combined bomber offensive. Ive only got about 50 minutes to talk to you about something thats very important. Not just in terms of military history and air power history in terms of history of our air force. Were going to talk about any number of things. Im going to get through it. Youre going to have follow along and take notes. Some of these overheads are busy. So youre going to take down the most important features. Were going to talk about the bomber barons. A little bit about Bomber Command air war from 1935 to 19 45. Remember we came into the war from the british point of view relatively late. And then well summarize what the overall impact of the combined bomber offensive. We call it combined because this is a mutual effort on the part of Great Britain and the United States. Heres the takeaway. Heres the thesis for today. The combined bomber america