This is a wonderful book thats come out. Just to do a quick introduction, professor of history at the university which coincidentally or maybe not coincidentally is the home of the archives and this is a book that is very personal for her and her journey to getting the buck to publication so something im always fascinated by, how did you get this topic thank you so much for having me. This is the moment in time and all the aviation people on her at the plane expo in oklahoma i went myself and couldnt get anyone to do wit go with me. Somebody pointed out the fact that in the shade of the hangar over there and i thought id will go say hello. He introduced me. Vogels house and into one of my friends has. I decided it was wrong. These are incredible women who developed during world war ii so i set myself on a mission that took 27 years to get here but ive been studying them and telling their story ever since it is definitely part of the war we are interested in but theres been little good
My family had a Construction Business there, which was quite old. It is still in business. And i went to school in delaware, i went to the university of delaware. So my history basically was in delaware before i went into the service. Now i tried to enlist in the service the minute we were attacked by japan. But i was colorblind. And i could not get in. But they had what they called the enlisted reserve corps. They let College Students go into it with the idea that you would serve a basic training and then you would go back to school, and the thinking was maybe this war wasnt going to go too far. So you would go back to school and you would start again wherever you left off. I went to try to enlist, but i was colorblind. Had to go back. Finally i got in the army. But i was restricted in what i could do. I went to texas for basic training. I spent 16 weeks in texas. They sent me from texas to the university of connecticut to continue my education. And unfortunately, when i got to the un
Cspan radio up. 75 years ago, in the summer of 1945 the United States dropped two atomic bombs on japan, one on here shimon august six and the other are nagasaki on august 9th. And this oral history recorded in 2012, by the national will work to museum, army veteran, eugene disabatino, talks about his assignments to the manhattan project, which included being stationed at loss alamos and working while the bomb dropped over nagasaki. The National World War Ii Museum provided the video. I was born in wilmington, delaware. And basically, i grew up in wilmington, delaware. My family had a Construction Business there, which was quite old, it is still in business. And i went to school in delaware, i went to the university of delaware, my history basically was in delaware before i went into the service. I tried to enlist in the service the minute we were attacked by japan, but i was color blind and i couldnt get in. But they had what they called the enlisted reserve corps, which they let Coll
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