At 10 00 a. M. The gigantic parade starts. As soviet russia hails the dawn of victory. Japanese military observers see the mighty display of Russian Armed power. Russian rocket launchers on american lend lease trucks. The soviet Union Celebrates a holiday and salutes the great victories in europe. Into a police court in oslo, norway, comes this meant to plead for his life. One of the wars most notorious traitors faces retribution for his crimes. As the judge enters, at first and the first preliminary trial for a major war criminal begins. Quisling, who made his name synonymous with trader in his betrayal of norway to the nazis, heres hears the case against him. Once arrogant and rude he shows signs of fear in a world free from nazism. There is no place for quisling. From Alliance Headquarters in north germany, orders go out for the arrest of the last top nazis. German sailors, marines, and soldiers who guarded these secrets are made captive. And the high commanders of this curious orga
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
This was amphibious warfare on a scale that staggered the imagination. Nothing like it had ever been seen. At omaha beach, in the first assault, 30,000 american troops stormed ashore. British and Canadian Forces struck at three different beach sectors. At utah beach, 20,000 american troops were landed. By the end of the first day, our ashore totaled 120,000 men. With every passing hour, with each passing day, reinforcements streamed ashore to enlarge the beachhead with tanks, trucks, ammunition, and supplies. Hundreds of our attack bombers and fighters were now over europe, carrying payloads of destruction aimed at the Vital Centers of hitlers europe. Hitlers fortress europe. [planes flying] [explosions] flying forces in heavy formations cascaded 3500 tons of explosives, a ton every second, upon naziheld positions. Our mass bomber formations were given a canopy of air support. Together, they fought off enemy air attacks. [gunfire and explosions] as the roar of engines and the concussio
To a political solution, a political agreement to end the war. In this battle, the largest that has ever been fought by the United States army in its history, better than 600,000 better than 600,000 americans were engaged. And you can see, our lines famously bulged but they did not break. However, you have the story of the siege that is going to be depicted here. Most famously, George Patton is going to come up and save the town from the south after they had been surrendered. This was an incident that Many Americans will recognize from where thepatton, Commanding Officer was asked by the germans to surrender and he famously said to them one word, nuts. In this case here, you get a sense of how logistics are so important in war, particularly with things like gasoline up here. We have a german gas tank where you can actually see the sf markings on the side. Germans were running out of gasoline. We, however, are going to also not only have to deal with moving mechanical vehicles, tanks, a
With the coming of spring, 1944, the winter stalemate in italy was broken. Our forces resumed fighting their way up the west coast of the italian boot towards rome. Against bitter german opposition. The british advanced up the east coast, in face of equally bitter opposition. In the pacific, troops of the first cavalry division, land on the islands in the admiralty group. To wipe out all japanese resistance, and to take hold of the entire group of violence. We landed in large forces at homeland here, on the north coast of new guinea. General stillwell and his troops, were fighting the japanese in burma. This was global warfare, on a scale never known before. Less than three years before, hitler had addressed the nation. Germany will face war on the United States to a positive conclusion. A japanese militarist, joins the chorus. Americans have radios, automobiles, big beefsteaks, when a people have those things, they dont want to fight. Americans wont sleep in hammocks, or lie in trench