Michael odonnell, who would missing in action during the vietnam war. Sunday night 8 00 eastern on cspans q a. The campaign played a major role in ensuring a u. S. Victory in the world war ii pacific theater. Next, to historians who are authors of books on the historic war give talks about two key events on the campaign. The battle of the Philippine Sea and the battle of saipan. This was part of the National World war ii museums annual conference. Some fantastic presentations for this afternoon. Beginning with our next panel, entitled, dominance, the mariana s campaign. Will hitchcock shared with us last night the reality that many different campaigns were going on in june 1944. Dday being primary amongst them. We are going to hear more later on and tomorrow morning in particular about the eastern fronts. As our next panelists will discuss, some of the most important actions of this global war were taking place in the pacific and in the marianas. By anext panel is led doctor who is the
We will be talking about secretary james new book. I have read it and listened to it. That is what we are going to talk about. Maam, first and foremost, to break the ice, what inspired you to tell your story . , i wore debra throughout my life i have been active in the business of our National Security closer to 40 years. I have always been a civilian and i have worked in congress, worked in the pentagon for my several tours and been in private industry always working on defense issues. While i was making my way up, i would always look up to the people above me and there were very few women at that point to look up to but there were a couple. And some men. I would wonder to myself about how their lives must be perfect. And how they were able to attain these high. And here was my life which had some successes but plenty of failures and i felt like a hot mess compared to these role models. I know now that was not true. That everybody has something. I wanted for the next generation of wom
Good evening. Im oliver north and im at the National Museum of the pacific war hereein fredericksburg, texas. Welcome to war stories. They called it bloody tarawa. The gibraltar of the pacific. A legendary battle in world war ii that cost the lives of nearly 6,000 combatants in a scant 76 hours. How could so much blood be shed over an island the size of new yorks central park . Japanese commander bragged with weapons like this artillery piece and that tank, he could hold tarawa against a million americans for 100 years. But we proved him wrong. One survivor said that every participant became a hero in spite of himself. Gruesome images of death from this tiny issand stunned our nation and forever changed the way americans looked at the realities of war. This is the story of 12,000 courageous marines and sailors who wouldnt accept defeat in capturing this island from a determined enemy for whom surrender was an option. Summer 1943. America was waging war on two fronts. From north africa,
Movie before. There is no need for a sequel. I regret having to say that, but i do believe mr. Wehrum is not the right fit for this position today any more than he was a dozen years ago. And i encourage my colleagues to vote no on his nomination to serve as e. P. A. s assistant administrator for air, and i reserve the balance of my time. Now, mr. President , i note the absence of a quorum. The presiding officer the clerk will call the roll. Quorum call mr. Strange mr. President , are we in a quorum call, sir . The presiding officer we are. Mr. Kennedy i ask that the quorum call be suspended, mr. President. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Kennedy mr. President , this saturday is veterans day, a day we honor the brave women and brave men who served in the great defense of this nation. We need to take a moment to reflect on the freedoms that we enjoy every day as american citizens. We need to take that moment to thank those who devoted their lives to serve and protect the gre
Learned to Work Together to defeat nazi germany. This program is about one hour and 45 minutes. Professor hanson ok, um, we will continue with this notion of masters and commanders going into the civil. Now we are at world war ii. Before we start with the allied commanders, masters i should last week we went over the four in total. We did not talk about mussolini, lincoln andhitler roosevelt. I felt we could talk about the beginning of world war ii and the critical change in 1942, july and december because of the radical turnaround in the submarine campaign with the allies in the upper hand. And the german disaster of stalingrad. Lets look at this map for a second. World war ii its hard to know when it actually starts. Third when the allies declare war in germany after they had invaded poland, along with russia two weeks later. The chinese have been invaded by the japanese since 1937, manchuria since 1931. The ethiopians have been integrated by italy since 1933. There is a lot of wars