Each week, American History tv sits in on a lecture. You can watch classes here at 8 00 and midnight eastern. Next, Donald Miller talks about what daily life was like for british and american airmen during world war ii and how their experiences differed from infantrymen. Hours. Ass is two prof. Miller im going to show you some slides. T is not a pro forma lecture ,f you have questions observations, let me know. Where we are at the 1943. We have invaded sicily, we have invaded italy. We are beginning to win the title of the atlantic. An enormous russian victory at stalingrad. Hurting, now the war is beginning to reverse itself. We are going to turn back a little bit to the beginning of the american participation and take that through dday. Next up we will do the dday invasion. Ok. There is the basis, east anglia. I have been there a lot. Englandbackward area of , only 60 miles from london but it might as well be six centuries away. As i say, it is shaped like a giant hachette aimed at n
Reverse itself. We are going to turn back a little bit to the beginning of the american participation in the war and take that right through dday. The next time we will do the dday invasion. There are the bases in east anglia. It is only about 60 miles from london but it might as well be six centuries away. As i say in the book, it is shaped like a giant hachette aimed at nazi, germany. Flying across from here this is the closest in england that you can run a bomber operation. The fighter boys were down here. The british raf pilots and Bomber Command was north near york. I have this map in your book. It is pretty good although it is not in color. You have the ranges of the fighter aircraft. How far they could get roundtrip from england. That tells you the course of the year were. Air war. In the beginning, the americans could only do shallow penetration missions. If youre trying to knock out uboats then, and that is featured in the great film, 12 00 high. They are mostly british spitfi
Ali banisadr. Narrator ali banisadr is probably the only artist in the world who has been influenced by the iraniraq war, graffiti art, and a bizarre medical condition. His paintings have been described as like Hieronymus Bosch. He produces large canvases that at first seem abstract, but when you look closer, they are full of figures and images. But then again, are they figurative or abstract . His style is instantly recognizable. Ali banisadr is a painter. I find that interesting, because especially for younger artist, because painting is not considered a young mans game anymore. He is able to create a multicultural painterly statement that reflects our world today and the strains of our history that make contemporary art so dynamic. He is one of that generation of iranians that were born in the 1970s before the revolution, lived through the revolution, then the iraqiran war. And his family migrated like many families from iran to the United States or europe. But he was interested in
His comic strip has attained the status of a Great American institution. Four 45 years he has spared no public figure or illconceived policy in a unique satiric approach to political commentary. He stands alongside such legendary cartoonist such as our next panelist, jeweled pfeifer jules feiffer. Jules feiffer brilliantly probing iconoclastic cartoons for 42 years, author of 35 books, he has written novels plays, movie scripts and an acclaimed biography. He received a george polk award way back in 1961. He said to the other men that that was the first major award that he had received. It took our colleagues another 25 years to recognize this man with a pulitzer prize. His work has cut across multiple our next guest, django gold has had work cut across multiple art forms. She has gone to Guantanamo Bay drawn Guantanamo Bay, and rebels in syria. The guardian has recognized her as Hieronymus Bosch and Cirque Du Soleil and i would also add friends is going and lenny bruce to the mix. Djan
Jules five for brilliantly probing iconoclastic cartoons for 42 years. Author of 35 books. He has written plays, movie scripts, and in autobiography. He received a george will george polk award way back in 1961. He said to the other men that that was the first major award that he had received. It took our colleagues another 25 years to recognize this man with a pulitzer prize. His work has cut across multiple our next guest, django gold has had work cut across multiple art forms. She has gone drawn Guantanamo Bay, and rebels in syria. The guardian has recognized her as Hieronymus Bosch and Cirque Du Soleil and i would also add friends is going and lenny bruce to the mix. Django gold will not be with us, he got stuck in chicago with bad weather. Our moderator is a distinguished journalist, and all i will say about him is that he wrote an article in 1971 that mentioned a interested a man named steve jobs and computers. I want to remind everybody please, if you have not already, please tu