Historian john, keying writes, the Second World War is the second largest event in human history. It killed 50 million human beings and left hundreds of millions of others wounded in mind and body and materially devastated. This largest single event affected life here in abilene as well as in communities around the world and where our panelists were during the war. I will begin our introductions with our abilene resident. Margin olson. She spent part of the war in exas and oklahoma as she fored her husband from post to pust. Next on our panel, doris snyder. She spent part of the war in akron, ohio. Not exactly rosie the riveter, but some type of war work. She is the mother of our museum curator, william snyder. We have made this panel into a Family Affair as you will see in a moment. Skipping down to the end of the table pause this is the way i rangered my remarks, bob went to oklahoma a m, now Oklahoma State university, where he studied journalism. Bob while he was there met press la,
Fell on me dead. So i just had to continue on. Fe. So i just had to continue on. Now, as i said, some of the medics were killed, and then they come to the aid of company. Theres no way to set up an aid station on omaha beach at all. As a matter of fact, the firepower was so great, that the boats coming in could hardly get in, and the waves were pushing them down, down, down toward that area. And so i was continued on, and working and i was getting weaker and weaker. Then the next wave come in, g Company First boat came in just to the right of where i had come in, and every 31 guys on this boat were killed before they got out. None got off. 31 dead right there. Now, thats when things started piling up, jack said, and the guy we were getting so many dead on the beach, that they were not able to come in, and the other boats were there. They did get a bulldozer, it might have been jacks tank. But they got a bulldozer in. They pushed out a ditch right off the beach area, and all those guys
In his book, john keegan writes, a Second World War is the largest single event in human history, fought across Six Continents and all its oceans. It left hundreds of millions wounded, killed 100 18 million human beings, and materially devastated much of the heartland of human civilization. This affected life here in abilene as well as in communities around the world where our panelists were during the war. I will begin our introductions with march olson. Marge spent the war, part of the war in texas and oklahoma. She followed her husband from post to post. They spent time in our relic, texas, that i know we will talk about. Next on our panel we have doris snyder. Doris is the mother of our museum curator, william snyder. That has made the panel a real Family Affair as you will see in a moment. Skipping down to the end of the table, bob was a boy in western oklahoma. Went on to oklahoma a m, now of course Oklahoma State university, where he studied journalism. He met his wife and they
Searched the wreckage of transasia flight 235. Incredible video there showing the plane clipping a bridge before landing in the water. We know that 32 people so far have been killed. 15 people have managed to survive. But 11 people are indeed missing. Among the survivors is a 1yearold boy. He was pulled from the wreckage with his parents. The child and his mother were sent to separate hospitals and the father who had just minor injuries got on a bicycle to go out and find them. Officials verified that a mayday call came from the flight deck before the crash. A person says theres an engine flameout but its unclear who made that call. Anna coren joins us live from taipei with the latest. So anna what is happening right now with the search going on behind you . Reporter john, there are hundreds of personnel here, military and Police Taking part in this enormous search and rescue operation. As you say, the death toll has now increased to 32. That means that thats still 11 passengers remain
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