Electrician before deciding to become a cop. We talked about my concern for your safety a lot and you always said dad, dont worry, when it is your time to go you cant do a thing about it. It is in gods hands. Reporter his daughter spoke wearing her fathers shirt. I think that my dad always knew Something Like this would always happen. I believe that if he had to go this is the only honorable way for it to happen. Reporter she wondered about a future without her father who wont be there to share special moments. I didnt know who would walk me down the aisle or love all my kids that will be too cute to put down. Reporter his brother talked about the boy who followed in his footsteps but that has now changed. Well, little brother, the tables have turned. It is your big brother who now looks up to you. Reporter one officer described the cops job as being a sheep dog, protecting the flock from the wolves. That is what Sergeant Scott lunger was doing when he died protecting the flock. Always
Air force professor mark wells talks about the role of bombers and fighting planes on the allied strategy in world war ii. He also describes the progression of air technology in this period. He argues that air power brought about the end of the war. His class is 55 minutes. Col. Wells lets get started. Seat, thanks. Todays lesson is the combined bomber offensive. I only have about 50 minutes to talk to you about something that is very important. , and in of air power terms of the air force. I am going to talk about any number of things, and you will have to follow along and take good notes. Some of these are very busy so i want you to take the most important features. We are going to discuss the bomber barons, a little bit about the war from 1939 to 1945. The american contribution. Remember, we came into the war from the british point of view relatively late. And then we will summarize with the overall impact of the combined bomber offensive. Remember, we call it combined because it wa
Francine welcome to the pulse. I am francine lacqua. Manus i am manus cranny. Next 40 course of the minutes, we are joined by unicredit chief, it is erik nilsson in the house. Francine first, china stocks posted the biggest two day climb. Manus it rallied on news the government is considering shipping two major companies. Francine after data shows a large drop in it worse last month with the steepest decline in nearly six years. Curranef economist enda joins us. What do the figures tell us about economy . Enda curran a very soft reading. Some of chinas biggest customers. Illustrate how soft chinas economy is when you strip away the impact of the big stockmarket boom we had in the second quarter. Left with a lot of sluggish areas like manufacturing and factories and real estate sector. Car sales falling for the first time in 17 years. To one ofn on exports the big engines of growth for china. Into the second half of the year, pretty sluggish outlook right now. Manus lets talk about the
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
Series. And keybattlefields events, american artifacts, touring museums and historic sites. Discover what artifacts reveal about americas past. Thepresidency, looking at policies and legacies of americas commanders in chief. And our new series, real america, featuring educational films from the 1930s through the 1970s. Cspan3, created by the cable tv industry and funded by your local satellite provider. Each week, American History reel america ring your photos. Bringing home the lesson of pearl harbor. From hardwon open our, from the plains of the third and fifth fleets, japan came under the inevitable rain of ruin. Ally c forces moving up to the japanese home islands shall the mainland almost without opposition. Hammering the enemy to its knees, but the worse to come. The destructive atomic bomb, the First Mission the Industrial City of hiroshima. Second mission, the port of nagasaki. Japan had its choice, complete surrender complete ruin. At potts dam, even as they laid the foundatio