He also talks about the surprise chinese counterattack and intense combat at the battle of cho sin reservoir, where he was captured. Watch korean war oral histories tonight, beginning at 8 00 eastern on cspan3. Enjoy American History tv this week and every weekend on cspan3. Every july, for the past 25 years, the Gettysburg Anniversary Committee has hosted a civil war battle reenactment and living history village, depicting camp life. Next, we visit a union army surgeon and embalmer and talk to reenactors about medical practices during the war. During the very beginning of the war, like i said, maybe around 1860, when there was a lot of quack surgeons in the union army, you know. Well, dr. Letterman in 1862 took, at antietam, took over the medical court. When he did that, he devised the whole thing around. Now he created an ambulance corps, where we could get the men in off the battlefield quicker and faster. He also went and had to test the surgeons to be armyqualified surgeons. Thats
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
Weapon station here, its also got the caliber 50 machine gun where the commander is and it also has two m19 machine guns one mounted with the main gun and the other is mounted here up in the front of the tank. This is manned by the bow gunner. He can move that up and down. That m191930 machine gun is protruding through the ball mount here. You got the workings of the gun. Got his ammunition back there and catch bag to catch the shell casings as they come out. You look at the top of the hatch over his right shoulder there, there is a periscope that goes in there. It is a prismatic periscope that sticks up and inside that periscope is a lens and he uses that to fire the machine gun. This one here is another machine gun, the other m1919. This is mounted with the main gun so tell investigates, depresses, turns with the tarrot. This is controlled by the gunner and he has switchology in his station to fire the main gun and the machine gun and esranging that through a similar set up you can s
My name is jared frederick, i am an instructor of history at penn state, and i am a reenactor with the furious fourth World War Ii History group. We are here at the u. S. Army Heritage Education center in pennsylvania. It is a major complex on the Army Heritage trail. Ranging from the 17th century up to the present. My group is here this weekend to discuss the 75th anniversary of the normandy invasion, which is taking place this summer. We thought it certainly fitting to commemorate that event. Us putting on these old uniforms, wearing old equipment, it certainly gives us a better perspective and appreciation of what the greatest generation went through. If we can impart even a small inkling of that to the passersby, then we feel like we have done a good job. The unit we portray is the Fourth Infantry Division. It is a unit overshadowed in the World War Ii History. It was one of the spearhead units involved in the normandy invasion. It was some of the first amphibious troops who were a
War. During the very beginning of the war, maybe around 1860 there were a lot of quack surgeons even in the army. Doctor little minute 1862 took over the medical corps, he divides the whole thing around. Now hes created an ambulance corps where we could get the men in off the battlefield quicker and faster. He also went and had to contest the surgeons to be army qualified surgeon. That is where it got better and better in the service. 3 million 300,000 died. 700,000 carried wounds off that battlefield. What happens there, when i was dealing with at that time was really a musket went in like a finger and came out like a fist. It shattered the bone so bad there was no way could repair it. Even if you got shot with one of them today in modern days, you cannot put it back together. It would just blow that bone apart completely. The survival rate was great off the amputations. 70 survived the amputations, but then it decreased to 60 due to the spread of disease that set in. At first, there