Gardening is one of my greatest delights. This weekend on American History tv on cspan3. Veteran norman about his time serving as a cameraman for the last norman hatch talked about his time later he discusses serving as part of the allied occupation force of japan and seeing the devastation caused by the atomic bomb on nagasaki. The World War Ii Museum conducted this interview in 2013 for its oral history collection. This is the second of a twopart interview. Nobody but a few men had been in combat before. My main job was to teach the photographers that were there as a division protrump section how to operate. When i reported in, i had a meor and a captain senior to. I was at that time a master sergeant. So i had applied for the warrant officer set up, but i didnt know whether i would be approved for it. People did not look on photography even in those later days so to speak of the war as being anything really important. You had to force your way into things to get what you wanted done
Reynolds is coeditor of the kremlin letters, stalins wartime correspondence with churchill and roosevelt. He talks about the messages sent between the leaders and explain how they used the communication to build relationships with one another and advance wartime goals without extensive bureaucratic interference. The National World War Ii Museum hosted this event in january,. 20. January, 2020. Tonight, it is my privilege to introduce the speaker dr. David reynolds. se of the United Kingdom most distinguished scholars, but i think that is probably selling them short. A fellow of christ college, cambridge, he studied at cambridge in harvard aiversitys and has been visitor to these shores since first coming year as a graduate student in 1973. David is the author of 12 books, he doesnt let the grass grow under his feet. Those include in command of history churchill fighting and writing the second world war, a book he wrote in 2004 that is shelf. Umbed on my ive decided to maybe thousands o
New and very distinct in the evolution of the story we are telling. Distinct becomes a beginning of the way america thinks of itself in the world in a very different way. Look, if you want to understand the 20th century, if you want to understand the roles of the United States assumes for itself and plays in the 20th century, the 190s is the place to start. The transformationalist and transformation is seen among the people and their attitudes in the 190s is little short of kind of amazing. Remember this. Remember that as far back as you want to go in American History, the idea has been that the United States, and before that, the american colonies. We are over here, and the rest of the world is the rest of the world. There is this purposeful sense that we are us, and the rest of the world can do whatever it wants, whatever it takes. Whatever it is going to do, it is not going to affect us. I am dancing around the world isolation because that has got a lot of baggage around it, but tha
Rooney in as he left the baghdad airport. This is a tweet from the state news agency that shows a missile leaving a launchpad, the eye iranians say one of the targets was the all asad military base which houses military troops. What happens now is a question on everyones mind . Is this attack over and how will the u. S. Respond . Benjamin hall is live in amman jordan with the latest. Benjamin. Good evening kennedy and for five days now since that it that killed Qassem Soleimani we have been waiting to see how iran would retaliate for his death. And theyve been talking about ever since then. They have said very clearly that politically and militarily they will respond they will attack the u. S. Military. A number of them had also said that they wanted to shed american blood. These early reports do suggest that no americans have been killed today and that is a critical. Because President Trump always said that the red line would be the death of american soldiers. We saw that when he reac
Rooney in as he left the baghdad airport. This is a tweet from the state news agency that shows a missile leaving a launchpad, the eye iranians say one of the targets was the all asad military base which houses military troops. What happens now is a question on everyones mind . Is this attack over and how will the u. S. Respond . Benjamin hall is live in amman jordan with the latest. Benjamin. Good evening kennedy and for five days now since that it that killed Qassem Soleimani we have been waiting to see how iran would retaliate for his death. And theyve been talking about ever since then. They have said very clearly that politically and militarily they will respond they will attack the u. S. Military. A number of them had also said that they wanted to shed american blood. These early reports do suggest that no americans have been killed today and that is a critical. Because President Trump always said that the red line would be the death of american soldiers. We saw that when he reac