Our free radio app and be part of the National Conversation through cspans daily washington General Program or through our social media feed. Cspan, created by americas People Television company as a Public Service and brought you today by your television provider. This was the europe of 1941. The nazi blitz krieg, had overwhelm fronts, holland, belgium, denmark, norway, and luxembourg. Russian armies were in desperate retreat. The German Air Force was raining death and destruction on england. Combined italian and German Forces were menacing egypt. Their objective to defeat an opposing british army and dominate all north africa. In asia, japanese air and Ground Forces were driving forward in their bloody conquest of china. Only one of the worlds major powers was still not at war, the United States. It was a sunday afternoon in december 1941. The statue of liberty towered over the new york harbor as if she were the last symbol of freedom left to the crumbling free world. Afternoon in ne
Since Early Morning people have come to pray for those who died in the battle of okinawa. Many are visiting the monument where names of the military personnel and civilians who lost their lives have are inscribed. This man was 5 years old when the fighting erupted and lost his father, brother, and grandparents. Translator i pray and ask for peace and happiness. This 88yearold woman lost her uncle who was a serviceman for the impeer japanese navy. Translator because of you, uncle, we are able to enjoy peace. Ease res i in pcece i prayyor 200,000 people lost their inududingeequarr o ofheinawaw onunune 2,945, the japanesee military operations against the u. S. And allied forces in okinawa came to an end. About 200 people are expected to attend a Memorial Service at the Memorial Park in the city on tuesday. The annual event usually draws 5,000 people but this year the number is smaller because of the coronavirus. Many people in okinawa hope the anniversary is a chance for the entire countr
You episodes four through eight. They cover u. S. Involvement and world war ii, from the pearl harbor attack through the surrender of japan. Each of these is about 30 minutes. They originally aired on the u. S. Army big pitcher television series. This was the europe of 1941. Nazi blitz, had overwhelm fronts, holland belgium, denmark, norway, and luxembourg. Russian armies were in desperate retreat. The German Air Force was raining destruction on england. Combined italian and German Forces were menacing egypt. Their objective to defeat an opposing british army and dominate fall north africa. In asia, japanese air and Ground Forces were driving forward in their conflict with china. Only one of the worlds major powers, was still not at war. The United States. It was a sunday afternoon in december 1941. The statue of liberty towered certainly over the new york harbor. As if she were the last symbol of freedom left to the crumbling free world. Afternoon york Early Morning and why, and anoth
Much if we didnt have armies in the field. So our next session will look at how yalta affected the execution of the closing months of world war ii. To do this, weve asked our very own rob citino. Dr. Citino is from the institute of war and democracy, swlt the Museum Senior historian at the National World War Ii Museum, and ill beat him to the punch scompline say hes got the longest title on staff. Hes an awardwinning military historian. Hes published 10 books, primarily on the german army. Hes taught for three decades, including stints at west point, u. S. Military academy, and the u. S. Army war college. He first came to the museum in 2012 for our International Conference. Then he came in 2013 for our International Conference. Then he was one of our featured tour historians at the 70th anniversary of dday cruise. Then he came to our 2014 International Conference. But as he always reminds me, did not come to our 2015 International Conference because we didnt invite him that year. Bette
Up. Marines around me raised up, jumped up and starting firing weapons into the air, screaming and yelling and that kind of stuff. I really thought everybody lost their mind for a second. I couldnt figure out what was going on. Then i caught on what was going on, because they were looking and then i looked and theres old glory. I jumped up and started doing the same dumb thing, firing my weapon and jumping and screaming. Im carrying a weapon. I jumped up and started yelling and screaming like everybody else. I wondered how many marines we lost when we saw old glory up on top. It changed the attitude of the whole thing. It absolutely did something to us. From the exhibit space inside the National Museum of the marine corps, were joined by edward nebgloski and owen connor. Mr. Connor, on this eve of the 75th anniversary, explain why there are historic flags in that hallway that you are sitting in right now. Well, we wanted to take the opportunity to make sure the folks had the chance to