Who signed 25 year leases on their apartments. Then on the 14th, our police went on strike. The next day the gestapo left. That was the day, too, when a police car opened fire on a german detachment on the plaza and began the battle of the city. After that, it seemed the french flag was hanging from every window. All the flags were made from curtains or anything. It didnt matter. Four days later we heard shouting. We started hiding. Me, my husband, everyone in our house. As we ran, people were screaming. The french army had arrived. When we got to the plaza, we saw it was true. I kissed my husband because he was crying. We began to realize how unhappy we had been for four years and how lucky we were to be alive on this august evening. Mary Louise Roberts is a history professor at the university of wisconsin madison. Joining us this morning on American History tv and washington journal in our focus on dday to talk about her book, dday through french eyes. Professor roberts we just showe
The to a defeats in the open battle. Man to man. Our air offensive has sowersly their strength in the air and their capacity to wang war on the ground. Our home fronts have given us an overwhelming superiority in weapons and munitions of war. And placed at our disposal great reserves of trained fighting men. The tide has turned. The freemen of the world are marching together to restrictry. I have full confidence in your courage, devotion to duty and skill in battle. We will accept nothing less than full victory. Good luck appear let us all beseech the blessing of al mighty god upon in great and noble undertaking. This morning on washington journal, and American History tv, we are the National Dday memorial in bedford, virginia, joined by alex kershaw, the author of nine books, including his lafrt, the first wave, the dday war ners who led to victory in world war ii. Thank you for joining thus morning. Whats the significance of you being there in bedford and the memoryual youre sitting
here anyone who s good with cameras? okay, we got one so i m not good with cameras and if there are any technical questions about what kind of camera did he use and how wide what was the millimeter of the film? like, i don t know that kind of stuff i can get you answers, but i just want to be clear like i can talk about the man in a broad sense. i m not very very good on the technology if you will. so without further ado ralph morris. he was born october 23rd 1917 in new york city. he was born in manhattan. he ended up moving to the bronx as a one-year-old and if you think about 1917 what was going on during that time period we had the end of world war one. we also had the pandemic which actually took the life of his father. so he grew up very early on without his father around because he passed away during the fluent epidemic. he was kind of a small guy. he wasn t really tall wasn t really big wasn t really athletics sort of kind of just, you know was sort of in between sort
with world war two veterans, but also people you know who are involved in sort of the civilian effort probably the top interview that i did that i always remember and that i always talk about it, you know dinner parties or whatever is my interview with ralph morrison. so i m excited to share with you some information about him today. the man has an unbelievabl career and i just want to put a little asterisk. do we have any photographers in here anyone who s good with cameras? okay, we got one so i m not good with cameras and if there are any technical questions about what kind of camera did he use and how wide what was the millimeter of the film? like, i don t know that kind of stuff i can get you answers, but i just want to be clear like i can talk about the man in a broad sense. i m not very very good on the technology if you will. so without further ado ralph morris. he was born october 23rd 1917 in new york city. he was born in manhattan. he ended up moving to the bronx a
some information about him today. the man has an unbelievable career and i just want to put a little asterisk. do we have any photographers in here anyone who s good with cameras? okay, we got one so i m not good with cameras and if there are any technical questions about what kind of camera did he use and how wide what was the millimeter of the film? like, i don t know that kind of stuff i can get you answers, but i just want to be clear like i can talk about the man in a broad sense. i m not very very good on the technology if you will. so without further ado ralph morris. he was born october 23rd 1917 in new york city. he was born in manhattan. he ended up moving to the bronx as a one-year-old and if you think about 1917 what was going on during that time period we had the end of world war one. we also had the pandemic which actually took the life of his father. so he grew up very early on without his father around because he passed away during the fluent epidemic. he was