Theres the heavy guns. This is a forgotten aspect of world war ii. There were real guns in france and heavy artillery. One of the body bearers is represented there. The field artillery, the forgotten branch, in many ways. These are men that were with, in most cases artillery pieces that moved up with the infantry. In some cases, they were in combat with the infantry. As they moved up and provided close artillery support, thats the infantry advanced, this is the story that is in the unknowns. General pershing is trying to be comprehensive in the way that he told the story of world war i through the eyes of these men. Then, of course, the extraordinary story of the tomb itself and how the unknown was selected. And i follow a chicagoan. A dough boy through the entire war. Younger was part of the second infantry division. An elite unit within the American Expedition theary forc and younger is there. Hes a dough boy. A regular grunt. A sergeant that fights from battle to battle. Hes wounded
Also the actions of individuals. A number testified to the great sacrifice, death and combat. The National Cemetery in arlington, virginia is the resting place of more than 400,000 people, including nearly 5,000 unknown soldiers. In 1921, a single unknown soldier was chosen to represent all of those who have died without being identified. The soldier of world war 1 was laid to rest with so many lemm ceremony attended by those of the highest ranks. On Film Documents the progress of that soldiers remains from france to the United States. And the newly built tomb of the unknown soldier. As the ceremonies at the u. S. Capitol where the unknown lay, general pershing stood to fill the role of the nearest relative. Along the way, eight men personally selected by general pershing accompanied the body of the unknown. So well hear from Patrick Odonnell and learn the story of those eight bearers and their hair rheroism on the battlefiel. He is an expert on elite units. Author of 11 books includin
Reporter that meeting between the president and county and state emergency officials in california wrapped up just minutes ago. Emergency officials spoke and informed the president of the 20 night significant active wildfires that are currently bring across our state. As we know, those fires have claimed lives, destroyed thousands of homes and have left much of Northern California and really a lot of the metro areas across the west coast in a constant cloud of smoke and unhealthy air. It was against this backdrop that the present touchdown in in Northern California on air force one. He was at mcclellan park, a former air brace airbase where they landed. He wrapped up that briefing with state and county emergency official. Gov. Gavin newsom set to the right of the present and the tone between the two leaders was professional and crowded, the reasons be hind the fires are a political flashpoint between the president and some democratic governors and west pick drought like conditions and
It is hosted by the brookings institution, and this runs one hour. Good morning, everyone. Today we are honored to host who will offer some remarks on how covid19 is affecting the American Armed forces and anything else that he would like to begin with. Then i will ask him some questions come and then we will hear from you about your questions. Apologies that we may not get to all of your questions, but we willfurther ado, start the program. Good morning. My name is john allen noon john allen. It is my privilege to welcome you all featuring our honored guest, mark esper. As secretary was sworn in the 20 seventh secretary of defense on 20 through july 2019, and it he has served in june and july of that year. He also served as the secretary of the army from 20 november 2017 to the summer of 2019. Secretary esper is no stranger to service. He is a 19 86 west point graduate. He was commissioned into the , and upon completion of ranger training, he served in the Airborne Division and partic
Back to their homes and businesses after a week of turmoil in new delhi. And the wind for climate activists plans for an extension to Londons Heathrow airport. Welcome to the program turkeys military is retaliating against Syrian Army Positions after 22 of its soldiers were killed in an attack the air strike happened in syrias in the province where in the last few weeks Turkish Forces have killed or captured more than 1700 soldiers with ties to the Syrian Government turkeys president had threatened more attacks against the russian backed regime if any more of their soldiers were harmed. Meanwhile ankara has announced it will no longer stop syrian migrants trying to make their way to europe Turkish Police coastguard and Border Security have been ordered to stand down and allow any syrian migrants to cross into europe either by land or sea well the latest round of fighting as only worsen the humanitarian crisis in the country with more than a 1000000 syrians displaced at the border in th