Biggest costliest and most significant yet fought in vietnam. Up next on real america, a cbs news special report on the broadcastginally november 30, 1965. Three months ago, the first fromry division set out charleston. Notd, sure of themselves tested in battle. There are destined for the high country of central vietnam. Last week, some of them came home. The price ofere victory in the battle of yard rang valley. Cbs news correspondent morley safer was there. On the night of october 19, 11 00 p. M. , the first mortar rounds fell. At the beginning it was simply another attack by a few americans and 350 strikers. But then command decisions were made that turned the battle into the campaign for not only the highlands, but perhaps all of vietnam. The battle of ia drang valley. A cbs news special report by morley safer and the team in vietnam with a special introduction by walter cronkite. Good evening. Six days ago, the people of america were jolted by an announcement. A single week that e
Captain Scott Mclaren here to discover discusses new press book. Captain mclaren is a graduate of the u. S. Naval Academy Class of 1955 and a veteran of more than 20 cold war commissions and three arctic expeditions. He was awarded the distinguished Service Medal and two legions of merit, as a cold war submarine commander. He was also president of the Polar Society and a former president of the explorers club. Hes the author of unknown waters. Firsthand account of the historic under ice survey by the Continental Shelf. He joins us today from his home in england colorado. [applause] thank you very much. When going to take you through is a hammered up combination of a variety of things. Maybe i had better concentrate on the book, but the very first part is taking you through of the highlights of my first book, the first survey of the entire Continental Shelf at the height of the cold war. When i finished talking about the book, if there is time i started diving the titanic. I was the fir
U. S. Naval Academy Class of 1955. And a veteran of more than 20 Cold War Missions and three arctic expeditions. He was awarded to legions of merit as a cold war submarine commander and was the president of the american polar society. He is the author of a firsthand account of historic under ice survey of the siberian Continental Shelf by the u. S. Queenfish. He joins us from his home in nederland, colorado. Alfred i will take you through a variety of things. The very first part i will take you through, some of the highlights from my first book. The first survey of the siberian Continental Shelf. When i finish talking about the book, if there is time, i have included, starting in 1999, i started documenting the titanic and total to almost 16,000 feet to see the german battleship bismarck. Up to last november, i was chief pilot of a highspeed submersible that could fly like an airplane. You will pick up very quickly that my main model in life is anything to avoid yardwork. You stay arou
I wanted to hand this out as a lesson, thinking about how were still connected to the past. There are people i dont, they are not my close personal friends, i like you all very much, but to do that, to hand out a quarter cups worth of sugar, this was the middle ages in europe. It was extravagant. Sugar, in the 1300s, was a rare and expensive good. It was medicine. It was prized and available only to the richest of the rich in western europe. To hand up the small amount i gave you would have been seen as an extravagant thing. Now, it is so much a part of our diets. You can go into a gas station and grab a handful and take it with you. I pay for it. Sugar is so cheap and common, it is hard to avoid it. Is there anyone who has had to give it up for dietary reasons . How easy was it . Terrible. Prof. Paulett right, its hard. Its in medicine and pills. How this came to be how it went from being a rare and expensive good to a thing that is so common that it is hard to avoid, this gets to the
The presence of Paul-Henri Nargeolet, a renowned French submariner, on the ill-fated Titan submarine that repeatedly dove into the Titanic, remains a mystery.