Which well get to later, i should mention, madison called it freedom of the use of the press and it is the freedom to print things and publish things, it is not a freedom for now what we refer to institutionally as the press. Lectures in history, on American History tv on cspan3 every saturday at 8 00 p. M. Eastern. Lectures in history is also available as a podcast. Find it where you listen to podcasts. My name is greg henesy. Im one of the people who give the school tours through the weeks, im in charge of the world war ii section. And this area, the world war ii section that we have set up, represents the type of buildings that we quickly put up at the start of world war ii, and the reason we to quickly put them up was because we were not prepared for war. The u. S. Milt had a less than 350,000 shoulders, that is army, navy and marines combined, no air force yet. They were part of the Army Air Corps. By the he said, we had 17 Million People in the service so we have to build Trainin
My name is greg hennessy. Im one of the people who gives the school tours, im in charge of the world war ii section. This area represents the type of buildings that we quickly put up at the start of world war ii. The reason why we had to quickly put them up was that we were not prepared for. The United States military had less than 350,000 soldiers at the outbreak of world war ii. Thats the army, navy and marine combined. No air force. By the end of the war we had about 17 Million People in service. To do that, we portraying centers all over the country to expand some of the force that we had. We had to build Training Centers all over the country and these are the types of buildings that are represented. If you notice, this is a friend of mine. His name is richard. This is him in september of 1942. He started his training in georgia. Im wearing boots, cover alice and a cap just the way they did to train. One of one reason they should cover off the train with was, world war ii was truly
Ladies and gentlemen, its my pleasure to introduce the last speaker for this afternoon. Dr. Michael assistant professor of strategy at the United States air force eschool of graduate professional military education where he directs courses on air power, history and national strategy. He recently published an article, the tball solution evolution of bear combat technology in vietnam 196 to 1972. In the air power history journal and is currently writing a book that explores the relationship between pilot culture and the Technological Development of military aircraft. He earned his ph. D. From kansas state university, the culture of the lightweight fighter, culture and technology in the United States air force from 1964 to 1991. Ladies and gentlemen, please help me in welcoming dr. Michael hinkins. All right. Ill try not to keep you from the reception, i did want to start off by talking about something that happened a year ago. There was an air force f15 flying over syria and this is not
Tv military historian Michael Hankins talks about Fighter Pilot culture. From the National World war i u museum in kansas city, mystery. Its my pleasure to welcome dr. Michael hankins. He directs courses on air power history and national strategy. He recently publicshed an artice in the air power history journal and is writing a book that exposes the relationship between pilot culture and the development of military aircraft. He earned his phd from kansas city university. Ladies and gentlemen, please help me in welcoming dr. Michael hankins. [ applause ] all right. Ill try to not keep you from the reception. Ill be quick. I wanted to start off by talking about something that happened about a year ago, last june in 2017. There was an air force f15 flying over syria. This is not what you expected to hear in a world war i lecture. Stay with me. It shoots down an iranian drone, an unmanned air vehicle. About two weeks later, a second almost identical event happened and i dont know about yo
Technology a vietnam and the air power history journal and is currently writing a book that explores the relationship between pilot culture and the Technological Development of military aircraft here earned his ph. D. From Kansas State University with his dissertation the calls of the lightweight fighter 1964 to 1991 and ladies and gentlemen please help me in welcoming doctor michael handguns. applause all right. Ill try not to keep you from the reception, i did want to start off by talking about something that happened a year ago. There was an air force f15 flying overseer yeah and this is not what you expected to hear in a world war i lecture but stay with me, he shoots down an iranian drone. A uav, not quite two weeks later a second almost identical event ppened. I dont know about you but my twitter exploded. People started talking online, blogs are being written, people are arguing, and what they are arguing about is does shooting down that drone count as a kill . Is that something