We are standing in the road to berlin, permanent gallery exhibits which open and december 2014, after several years of development. Our mission here at the National World War Ii Museum is telling the American Experience in world war ii. How it was fought and won and what it means today. The building we are in tells what i call, the war part of the story. How it was one. Here we are in the first gallery of the road to berlin and behind me you will see the large portraits of political leaders of the allying powers that line up if you will, of the two sides that well engage in this great struggle. When our visitors arrive in this gallery, we believe that they will know that pearl harbor has already occurred due to exhibits on the other side of the street in our museum, so with the country already at war, we have a video that introduces them to five major Strategic Elements with the United States and our allies which ones must master in order to win world war ii. These five key Strategic E
Director of research and history here at the National National World War Ii Museum. We are standing in the road to berlin permanent gallery exhibits that opened in december 2014 after several years of development. Our mission here at the World War Ii Museum is to tell the American Experience in world war ii how it was fought, where it was won, and what it means today. The building we are in tells what i call the war part of the story, how it was won. Here we are in the first gallery. Behind me, you will see the large portraits of the political leaders of the axis and allied powers, the lineup, if you will, of the two sides engaged in this great struggle. When our visitors arrive in this gallery, we believe they will know that pearl harbor has already occurred due to exhibits on the other side of the street in our museum. With the country already at war, we have a video that introduces them to the five major Strategic Elements that the United States and our allies must master in order t
Was won, and what it means today. The building we are in tells what i call the war part of the story, how it was won. Here we are in the first gallery. Behind me, you will see the large portraits of the political leaders of the axis and allied powers, a lineup of the two sides engaged in this great struggle. When our visitors arrive in this gallery, we believe they will know that pearl harbor has already occurred due to exhibits on the other side of the street in our museum. With the country already at war, we have a video that introduces them to the five major Strategic Elements that the United States and our allies must master in order to win world war ii. These five key Strategic Elements include arsenal of democracy, building a greater war machine than our enemies, technology its not enough just to out produce our enemies, we have to make better equipment and weapons. Control of the sea lanes, control of the air. And then the last strategic element, mastery of amphibious landings,
Next on American History tv, historians present talks on two aspects of what the soviets aspects of the operation. Ready toow getting hand the stage over to an associate professor in the department of history at the university of windsor in canada. We met rob last year when he came down for our 2018 conference as an attendee. We are delighted to have him back with us to moderate our first session of the day. Without delay, dr. Nelson. [applause] good morning. Bout. E to the heavyweight these three major fronts for those of us, he saved the biggest one for last. Operation, one of the greatest, the most significant with a name that none of us can pronounce. I dont speak russian. I can say it in french way. Then there is the funny, easy pneumonic device. Operation bag of rations. Can kind of spell it out along the way. Words spelling out the with the emphasis on the final syllable. About the Eastern Front and how significant it is, difficult to bring the numbers and figures and the size o
Orleans, a look at the Italian Campaign in 1943 and 1944. Seniorino, the historian, talks about the german army in italy, and author and historian Rick Atkinson discusses the campaign from the allied perspective. Now you hear me. I hear me, too. Good morning. Lengle, senior director for programming. Welcome to our humble abode. We had to clear out some junk to make room for you, so it sits on best so sit on any so sit on any old upturned law you can find. You dont see this kind of passion to get in at 8 00 in the morning at an academic conference. We like to keep things at a very high level. We certainly witnessed that yesterday with our preconference symposium on dwight d. Eisenhower. The quality of the presentations ,nd the questions were superb caps off by a fantastic lecture 1944. L hitchcock on june i encourage you throughout today and tomorrow, it is really you who make this conference happen and make it as exciting as it is. Please keep the Great Questions coming. It will make e