Cspan 3 created by the cable tv industry and funded by your local cable and satellite proprovider much watch us on hd. Follow us on twitter. In the weeks after the june 6th, 1944 dday invasion of normandy france allied troops faced difficult terrain and german fortifications in towns surrounding the beaches. Next military historian John Macmanus talks about what happened in the days and weeks after. What follows from june 7th on ward is an absolute bloody slog that ultimately leads deep into germany and the end of hitlers nazi germany. Heres where it begins. Dday sees this basic situation. You got the five distinctive landing beaches, obviously gold for british, juneau is sandwiched between them. Omaha beach americans carved out an enlargement there and west of that utah beach for the americans. Thats my primary focus the American Experience in normandy and a little bit what that was like. They need to get up to caratan so they can link up the beaches. Utah and normandy need to be link
Months and they wouldnt touch rice either. As far as the mess hall, we didnt have a lot of rice there. We didnt have very good food. It was not too tasty. I came bam from other there and was working in chicago and the Office Manager where i worked was a japanese girl and wound up marrying her and eating rice the rest of my life. [ applause ] lets go back over here. My question concerned which pilot flew the hump first, was it the air commandos or the pilots of the 14th air force . I think it was the 14th air force. Pilots of which organization flew the hump first. Im still not reading you. Which flew the hump first . Do you know . What outfit through over the hump first . There was flight of airplanes. Jake sarks who was my roommate who arrived in india around the first of april and he was in another young man, paul conroy flew a couple of missions before. Jacob was the last airplane out of there. I think most of you heard that they loaded 71 passengers on there. When they arrived in i
And recover the place and rebuild it. It takes the better part of the summer. Sherborg wont be running that much for the allies until about september 1944. By then its far away from the front lines that are, you know, in eastern france. Its a bit anticlimatic. Supplies coming from then. Well of course the most famous answer to that question is mulberry harbor. Thats the code name for artificial harbors at lies created through remarkable ingenious manufacturing. Basically create your own artificial harbors off the landing beaches. 7i one at gold beach, and one at omaha beach. You basically sink tetrahera and also block ships to create those breakwaters, and then you have kind of ramps and platforms and you unload stuff that way. Now those are in place within about a week or so of the invasion. But a terrible storm hits normandy from june 18th to 20th of 1944. Heavily damages the british mulberry harbor and destroys the northern mulberry harbor for good. The mulberries are overrated in