I hope everybody enjoyed their lunch. Morning doing highlevel analysis of the political and strategic situation that existed amongst the allied leaders. Fought on, wars are battlefield, not in boardrooms. These summits, though they dictated much of what would happen on the ground, they would not have mattered much if we did not have armies in the field. Our next session will look at affected the execution of the closing months of world war two. Robo this we have asked executive director democracy as of well as at the world War Ii Museum. He is an awardwinning led terri historian. Military historian. He has published 10 books, primarily on the german army. He has taught for three decades including stints at west point, the u. S. Military academy, and the u. S. Army war college. Infirst came to the museum 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 crews. Then
The marines around me raised up, jumped up, and started firing their weapons into the air, screaming and yelling and that kind of stuff. And i really thought everybody had lost their minds for a second. I could not figure out what was going on. And then i caught on what was going on because they were on the mountain and i looked, and there is old glory on top. I jumped up and started doing the same dumb thing they were doing, firing my weapon in the air and jumping and screaming. I was carrying a weapon. I jumped up and started firing in the air and yelling and screaming like everybody else. I wondered during them how many marines we lost at that particular moment. But it changed the whole attitude about the whole thing. From the exhibit space inside the National Museum of the marine corps in quantico, virginia, we are joined by marine corps history chief Edward Nevgloski, and owen connor. On this eve of the 75th anniversary of the battle of iwo jima, explain why there are two historic
Exciting and interesting. This one is no exception. I have seen so many friends who have come from far and wide, including my good friend all the way from texas. Thank you for coming. We are now in the portion of our program, we have had a wonderful introduction to the road to guadalcanal from richard frank. Someday we are going to do a rich frank symposium, eight straight hours. No one would object. I know that. Now, we are in the portion of our program, for the next three sessions, we will be looking at land, sea, and air fighting around and over guadalcanal. We will start with the land portion. Dr. Andy west is universal dr. Andrew wiest is a distinguished professor. He is the codirector of the dale center for society. That rivals the length of my own title, and i think andy needs his own placard. He is the author of numerous books, including war in the pacific, vietnams forgotten army, and the boys of 67. He is also a great undiscovered rock drummer. He is here to speak about the f
Michael odonnell, who would missing in action during the vietnam war. Sunday night 8 00 eastern on cspans q a. The campaign played a major role in ensuring a u. S. Victory in the world war ii pacific theater. Next, to historians who are authors of books on the historic war give talks about two key events on the campaign. The battle of the Philippine Sea and the battle of saipan. This was part of the National World war ii museums annual conference. Some fantastic presentations for this afternoon. Beginning with our next panel, entitled, dominance, the mariana s campaign. Will hitchcock shared with us last night the reality that many different campaigns were going on in june 1944. Dday being primary amongst them. We are going to hear more later on and tomorrow morning in particular about the eastern fronts. As our next panelists will discuss, some of the most important actions of this global war were taking place in the pacific and in the marianas. By anext panel is led doctor who is the
International with me making arrant great to have you with us some news just in for you now russia could soon regain its seat in the Parliamentary Assembly of the council of europe the human rights body has just voted to allow the russian delegation to attend the summer session but its so fun clear what russias role will be the country was stripped of its Voting Rights back in 2014 that was after the reunification of crimea with russia and the outbreak of the conflict in Eastern Ukraine well bring you live analysis on this story later this hour. Irans foreign minister java serif has tweeted that america despises diplomacy and wants war thats off the washington introduced major new sanctions on 2 wrong including against the countrys supremely leader ayatollah come and say the escalation comes in response to irans downing of a u. S. Military surveillance drone which the Islamic Republic claims violated it says space. Todays action follows a series of aggressive busy behaviors by the Iran