And helped bring about the end of the war. His class is about 55 minutes. Have a seat, thanks. All right. Folks, todays lesson is a combined bomber offensive. Ive only got about 50 minutes to talk to you about something thats very important. Not just in terms of military history and air power history in terms of history of our air force. Were going to talk about any number of things. Im going to get through it. Youre going to have follow along and take notes. Some of these overheads are busy. So youre going to take down the most important features. Were going to talk about the bomber barons. A little bit about Bomber Command air war from 1935 to 19 45. Remember we came into the war from the british point of view relatively late. And then well summarize what the overall impact of the combined bomber offensive. We call it combined because this is a mutual effort on the part of Great Britain and the United States. Heres the takeaway. Heres the thesis for today. The combined bomber america
Invention and the invention was the origin of International Business machines. Ibms business was based on the punch cards. The way you got information into and out of an electronic computer in the 50s and 60s up to the 80s was like using these mechanical cardboard cards and feeding thousands and thousands of them into the computer at once to run a program or do something. Each week, American History tv sits in on a lecture with one of the countrys college professors. You can watch every evening at 8 00 p. M. And midnight eastern. Next, 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 technology in the. Poeriod. He argues that air power brought about the end of the war. This class is 55 minutes. Mark wells lets get started. Room has been shut. Mark wells every seat, thanks. Have a seat, thanks. Todays lesson use the combined bomber offensive. I only have about 15 minutes to tal
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
Is Heather Vogell, reporter with propublica. Thank you for being with us. Guest thank you for having me. Host lets start with an explanation on dropouts in alternative schools. Can you explain . Guest we published a story that looked very in depth at a situation that we found going on in the School District that includes orlando, Orange County public schools. Schools arehigh basically sending kids who are their lowest achievers to Charter Schools that are also alternative schools. These are schools that are specifically supposed to be geared towards kids who are way behind in credits, potentially not going to graduate. The problem we found is that were not finding a lot of success in the alternative schools, charter alternative schools. The regular schools were benefiting from getting these kids out of their classes intensethere is a very inountability system in play florida, and schools receive letter grades every here. They are judged on things like graduation rate, test scores. Thes
Two original fiction anthologies at his request. Steve just been marvelous friend and colleague. In 1984, our visual publisher sent me a manuscript written by a vietnam war aviator for each other. I said this book is so good, if you dont publish it i will. Next year it was published fight of the intruder. He came up with the concept of a former military contractor that does deniable work for the u. S. Government all over the world. That was a trilogy that was a fun change of pace for me because i hadnt done anything in the trilogy realm. That was an education. Im sure it was. Youre a wonderful writer. I think your nonfiction reads with all the fiction and thriller. You grew up flying airplanes . Where does all of this aviation background come from im an Eastern Oregon ranch kid. Grew up literally next to family crop duster strip. In any hometown, population 950. Airplanes were always overhead. That combined with my dad who had been trained as a naval ayeator aviator in world war ii. I