There is scope for doing new things out,fleshing so it is great to have new ideas. I appreciate carolines presentation and the audiences questions, so thank you fremont. Next, Historic Site manager Paige Gibbons backus talks about the state of medical knowledge at the beginning of the civil war, including surgical practices and diseases common among the soldiers. She also describes advances later in the war such as sterilization and Reconstructive Surgery that drastically improved a soldiers chance of survival. This talk was part of a symposium on the war in the east hosted by the emerging civil war blog. To the emerging civil war virtual symposium and thank you for joining us online for this years event. I want to give one more shout out to our technical director, chris white, for his help behind the camera today. Ecw cofounder. Thank you, chris. Also thank you to our cocoordinators Kevin Pollock and dan welch, his hard work made todays event possible turn also thank you to our friend
Italy was broken. Our forces slowly resumed fighting their way up the west coast of the italian boot toward rome against bitter german opposition. The british advanced up the east coast in the face of equally bitter opposition. In the pacific troops of the First Cavalry Division landed on los megros and to wipeout all japanese and complete we landed large forces on the north coast of new guinea. This was global warfare on a scale never known before. Germany, italy and japan will wage common war upon the United States to a victorious concushion. In rome his fascist partner declared. Participate from today on the side of heroic japan against the United States. A japanese militarist joined. Americans have radios, automobiles, big beefsteaks. When a people has those things they dont want to fight. Americans wont sleepin hammocks or lie in trenches they are like a tiger whose stomach is full. They are sleeping. The american is no soldier. Yet there he was carrying the fight to the aggressor
We talks about his experience as one of the few African American soldiers in his company while serving as a machine gunner in the u. S. Marines. The interview project was underwritten by south koreas ministry of patriots and veterans affairs. James my name is james sharp. When i was in korea i was marine pfg. And im very pleased to be doing this interview with you, on may 29, 2014. That is a long time after the end of the war. So you will have to forgive any memory lapses i may encounter. Thank you, sir. Thank you very much again. Would you please share your birthday and birthplace. James my birthday is may 28, 1933, and that was in new york city. I was born in York Hospital in new york city. Yesterday was your birthday. How was it . James it was wonderful. My daughter was here. One of my grandchildren was here. He came early, and we went out to play golf, which was my first time playing golf, and over three years, because of the entry to my leg. Oh. James the cancer in my leg. It was
U. S. And south Korean Forces were badly outnumbered. This is war. War and its masses. War and its men. War and its machines. Together they form the big picture. Welcome to the big picture. Im captain carles immerman. The big picture is a report to your army, an army committed by you the people of United States to stop communism or it strikes. It will change the course of the Korean Campaign firsthand reports from combat veterans, and film taken by combat cameramen. These are the men who daily records on film the big picture as it happens where it happens. Today the big picture brings into focus the first 40 days in korea. It was the beginning of the fighting there. When every ridge was a heartbreak ridge. Lets go back to 19 fifties when our troops went across the first thrusts of this is best told by the language of the soldier that was there. This story is hard to tell. Painful because our outfit was in training a few weeks ago. Some of the boys hour with us arent around anymore. The
Elections held at the 38th parallel. The republic of korea, a sovereign democratic nation was born. His president. In may 1950, the citizens of this young republican went to the polls again to exercise their democratic rights. To choose their government under their democratic constitution. Even as the citizens of the korean republic voted in free elections, the north korean communist leaders were boasting of their intention to unify the country by force. And this was their target, a partly mountainous but peninsula and the 20 million peaceloving citizens of the republic of korea. The attack by the north korean communist came suddenly and without warning. The heroic Republican Army faced superior forces with all the advantages of deception and surprised, rally to the defensive of the public. Improvising quickly to react to the unprovoked aggression. Against a prepared enemy armed with modern tanks, planes and guns, the republican troops were ill equipped to meet the onslaught. Back in t