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
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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
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