When we talk about fire danger, that means there is a red flag warning. For a look at who exactly is affected and when the winds will pick up lets get to francis. We have a red flag warning in effect. Its first going to hit the north bay mountains and east bay hills tomorrow at 11 00 in the morning and spreads to the rest of the bay area for the coast and the rest of the lower elevations by 8 00 tomorrow. Winds will be from the northnortheast, so this is try land breeze, will bring humidity down into single digits. Gusts up to 50 Miles Per Hour around the bay and even near 70 Miles Per Hour over the Higher Elevations and ridges. So this is extreme fire weather conditions. Youll want to secure your Outdoor Furniture and everything can you to be prepared. It will peak into monday morning. Now pg e is warning hundreds of thousands of customers across Northern California they may lose power tomorrow. We have high confidence this will be the strongest diablo and fire weather so far. We have
If we move to the commanders weapon station here, its also got the caliber 50 machine gun up top, where the commander is, and it also has two m1919. 30 caliber machine guns. One of those is mounted coaxially with the main gun. The other is mounted here and is manned by the gunner. And if you take a look at the bow gun, you can move that up and down. That 30 caliber machine gun is protruding from the armored bow mount and hes got his ammunition in the back and to the back to catch the bag to catch the shell casings as they come out. If you look at the top of the hatch, over his right shoulder, there is a periscope there, and as its name implies its a , prismatic periscope that sticks up through that space. Inside that periscope is a lens reticle in it, and he uses that to fire the machine gun. This is another one. This one is controlled by the gunner. He has some switches in his crew station that control part of the main gun and the switch to the fight with machine guns. His part with t
Education center. We will talk a little bit today about the american m4 medium tank, probably one of the most prolific tanks of the Second World War. This particular example was one of the earlier versions, the m4a3 tank. This one is armed with a 75millimeter main gun. If we move to the commanders weapon station, it also has the caliber. 50 machine gun and two m1919. 30 caliber machine guns. One of those is mounted coaxially with the main gun. The other is mounted here and is manned by the gunner. If you look here, he can show you how that works. That machine gun protruding through armored ball mount and hes got his ammunition in the back and to the back to catch the bag to catch the shell casings as they come out. If you look at the top of the hash, right over his right shoulder, there is a periscope that goes in there. It is a prismatic periscope that fits through that space and sticks up. Is a lenst periscope that has a radical and he uses that radical to fire the machine gun. This
About the american m4 medium tank, one of the most prolific tanks of the Second World War. This was one of the earlier versions, the m4a3 tank. Its armed with a 75millimeter main gun. It also has the caliber. 50 machine gun and two m1919. 30 caliber machine guns. One is mounted coaxially with the main gun. The other is mounted here and is manned by the gunner. If you look here, he can show you how that works. That machine gun protruding the armored ball mount and hes got his ammunition in the back and to the back to catch the bag to catch the shell casings. If you look over his right shoulder, there is a periscope there, and its a prismatic periscope that sticks up through that space. In the periscope is a lens and he uses that to fire the machine gun. This is another one. This one is controlled by the gunner. There is a switch to fire the machine gun. He ranges that through a similar set up. His periscope comes up from the inside, and that is how he is looking. One of the things you w
Cspan is at the National World War Ii Museum that opened in 2000. Today, we will be visiting the road to tokyo exhibit that does the American Experience in the pacific theater. Lockout, everyone, to the National World War Ii Museum in downtown new orleans. We have several different permanent exhibits. We are at the road to tokyo exhibit that will take us through the war in the pacific and asia from 1941 to 1945. We designed this exhibit is every creation of the bridge of the uss enterprise, the world war ii Aircraft Carrier in the u. S. Navy. As you enter the exhibit, you enter the ship and get yourself oriented to the war in the pacific. We try to introduce our visitors to the players. You have here we go you have hirohito who started this. And we have the leader of the nationalist chinese. As we advance through the bridge of the uss enterprise, this is where the command elements will be. The will go to the next gallery and get a better look at what life was like for the crewmen aboar