Telling the story of the desperate fight around the small town from the perspective of both said of the men who were there. Including lieutenant will rogers jr. It is no showplace this town, not wealthy. Not wellknown. Before what happened here in december 1944, or even since. For seven day, history paused at a crossroads in this belgian village and then passed on. Unless we can call history the echoes that ring in the memories of the men who make it. As they did in the battle here. The fact was that everyone in every unit was fighting for its own life. Maybe this is it. I dont want to see battery at 150 yards. Cold. When you are cold, you stay cold. Theres no way of getting warm. Weve got no orders to retire. Germ [ speaking Foreign Language ] hcw in the fall of 1944, the german army had been fighting for five years. Allied confidence was high. Its strength overwhelming. And the halt in its sweep across europe at the german front tier regarded this temporary. There, the forces of fiel
By the spring of 1950, only five short years after the last shots of world war ii had been fired, the United States army had been reduced to an active force of 600,000. A great number of these were scattered about the world on occupation duty. But the armed forces of the communists, soviet russia and red china, remained on a strong wartime footing and in belligerent posture. Aggression was soon to come. Americans would be fighting against tyranny for the third time in 32 years. Korea. A crowded Little Finger of land, but a key importance to the free world in the far east. What happened here opened the next major chapter in the history of the United States army. The war began here at the 38th parallel. Just how did this imaginary line become the fuse for a threeyear explosion . Before the japanese surrender in world war ii, we made an agreement with the russians who were then our allies. When surrender came on the asian mainland, Russian Troops would accept the surrender of Japanese For
Your friends so they can join, too. Tonights meet the author Event Features a great friend of the museum, someone whos become very involved with us in the last year or so, james holland, who, last week, published the second book in his trilogy on world war ii in the west, the allies strike back. Before i get to the introductions, i do want to follow a tradition we have here at the museum. I dont know if we have any world war ii veterans with us tonight that i can recognize. If not, id like to recognize veterans from all eras of service. [applause] thank you for your service and sacrifices. This evening, well have on stage together two of the biggest names and most prolific writers in the world war ii field. I was just thinking to myself this afternoon, if this was like boxing or something, this would be like a payperview match or something that we would have on this stage tonight. So we have our own senior historian, rob citino, who published his 10th book this month and hell be interv
Features a great friend. Someone is become very involved with us in the last year or so. James holland. Who last week published the second book in his trilogy. Before i get into the introductions, i want to follow a tradition we have here. I dont know if we have any world war ii veterans here with us tonight that i can recognize, do we have any veterans . If not i would like to recognize veterans from all eras of service. [applause] thank you for your service and sacrifice. This evening come we will have on stage together, two of the biggest names and most prolific writers in the world war ii field, i was just thinking to myself this afternoon, if this was like boxing, this ability paper view match we would have on the stage tonight. Historianr own senior who publishes his book this month and he will be interviewing james holland, a ,istorian, broadcaster, author he is written 19 books on world war ii. Mostly nonfiction but also historical novels and young adult titles. You probably re
Together they form the big picture. Welcome to the big picture. Im captain carl zimmerman. The big picture is a report to you from your army, an army committed by you, the people of the United States, to stop communist aggression wherever it may strike. The big picture traces the course of events in the Korean Campaign through firsthand reports of combat veterans and through film taken by combat cameramen of the army signal corp. These are the men who daily were caught on film the big picture as it happens, where it happens. Today our big picture brings into focus the turning of the tide. Youll see our fight to hold on to the pusan perimeter. Youll see air support from our carriers, the invasion of wall knee and the march on seoul. And youll hear a firsthand report from lieutenant tom driesenstalk, platoon leader from the 24th Infantry Division. Now lets go back to august 1950. On 10 august, after 47 days of fighting in korea, the fight in the pusan beach head is ebbing and flowing for