And memorial in kansas city, missouri, hosted this event. Its just over an hour. Hello. Welcome, everyone, to your National World war i museum and memorial. Im Camille Kulig Program Specialist and thrilled to have everyone joining us here this afternoon. Whether you have braved the rain, congratulations. You made it. Or if youre warm at home watching through our live stream. Today we have the pleasure of hosting dr. Rudy daniels who is going to present his lecture, the Great Railroad war, United States Railroad Operations in world war i. Today we also have the pleasure of being joined by one of the museum and memorials esteemed board members. He is going to speak more about his ample experiences with railways in the midwest. And his connection to the museum and memorial. Without further ado, please help me in welcoming dave everick. Thank you very much. Yeah, im really pleasured to join you today. We have a great guest and dr. Ru rudy daniels who is going to join us. Ive been with the
Welcome back to the Madeleine Paul hilliard Conference Center here at the higgins hotel. I hope everybody enjoyed their lunch. We spent this morning doing some pretty high Level Analysis of the political and strategic situation that existed amongst the allied leaders. But as we all know, wars are fought on battle feels, not in board rooms, and these summits, though they dictated much of what would happen on the ground, they wouldnt have mattered much if we didnt have armies in the field. So our next session will look at how yalta affected the execution of the closing months of world war ii. To do this, we asked our very own rob citino, dr. Citino is the executive director of the institute for the study of war and democracy as well as the Museum Samuel and mary stone Senior Historian at the National World War Ii Museum and ill beat him to the punch line and say hes got the longest title on staff. Hes an Award Winning military historian, published ten books, primarily on the german army.
Much if we didnt have armies in the field. So our next session will look at how yalta affected the execution of the closing months of world war ii. To do this, weve asked our very own rob citino. Dr. Citino is from the institute of war and democracy, swlt the Museum Senior historian at the National World War Ii Museum, and ill beat him to the punch scompline say hes got the longest title on staff. Hes an awardwinning military historian. Hes published 10 books, primarily on the german army. Hes taught for three decades, including stints at west point, u. S. Military academy, and the u. S. Army war college. He first came to the museum in 2012 for our International Conference. Then he came in 2013 for our International Conference. Then he was one of our featured tour historians at the 70th anniversary of dday cruise. Then he came to our 2014 International Conference. But as he always reminds me, did not come to our 2015 International Conference because we didnt invite him that year. Bette
I hope everybody enjoyed their lunch. Morning doing highlevel analysis of the political and strategic situation that existed amongst the allied leaders. Fought on, wars are battlefield, not in boardrooms. These summits, though they dictated much of what would happen on the ground, they would not have mattered much if we did not have armies in the field. Our next session will look at affected the execution of the closing months of world war two. Robo this we have asked executive director democracy as of well as at the world War Ii Museum. He is an awardwinning led terri historian. Military historian. He has published 10 books, primarily on the german army. He has taught for three decades including stints at west point, the u. S. Military academy, and the u. S. Army war college. Infirst came to the museum 2012 for our international conference. Then he came in 2013 for our international conference. Then he was one of our featured tour historians at the 70th anniversary of dday crews. Then
Identify them. He is the author of a book, the forgotten story how the United States save the soviet union from ruin. Happen . This luck. They had no children, and i was called in, and pretty much everything in the house was of no value. They had collected a lot, and in the last room i went to, sure enough, i found these covered boxes, opened them up, and there i found the thousands of slides as well as the canisters of film, and the first one i had had written on it stalins funeral. What did you think . I did know. I had to have it digitized. It was 16mm film. I had to wait weeks before it was finished, and then i knew it was historic. Through andwalk us let us know, but man half was an avid photographer. Avidnhoff was an photographer. Standing on the street with his camera filming. Behind him is the ukraine hotel, which is under construction. This is him in uniform. Stationed ins he the soviet union . Donald he went to the university of washington. He was in rotc there. 4, and afterp