Showed small acts of bravery and brotherhood known only to those with whom they fought and served. This is the story of their unknown valor. Im martha macallum, growing up, my mother told us the story of her cousin harry grey. In the summer of 1944 at age 18 he left after High School Graduation to join the marines and serve in the pacific. I was always intrigued and i knew harrys death there left a deep grief in my mothers family. A few years ago struck me to tell the story. The guys who get hit on the beach or in the villages just trying to carry out the mission, they are the extras in the movie, but for some families, somewhere they are their harry grey. The line on the family tree that just ends. A young man who never got to have a life, get married, grow old. To learn about harry and what happened to him on march 13th, 1945i started with a trip to new york to visit his sister, my aunt nancy. She told me about their lives growing up with their mom, migrant aunt anne and her dad harr
Showed small acts of bravery and brotherhood known only to those with whom they fought and served. This is the story of their unknown valor. Im martha macallum, growing up, my mother told us the story of her cousin harry grey. In the summer of 1944 at age 18 he left after High School Graduation to join the marines and serve in the pacific. I was always intrigued and i knew harrys death there left a deep grief in my mothers family. A few years ago struck me to tell the story. The guys who get hit on the beach or in the villages just trying to carry out the mission, they are the extras in the movie, but for some families, somewhere they are their harry grey. The line on the family tree that just ends. A young man who never got to have a life, get married, grow old. To learn about harry and what happened to him on march 13th, 1945i started with a trip to new york to visit his sister, my aunt nancy. She told me about their lives growing up with their mom, migrant aunt anne and her dad harr
Leaves behind a trail of destruction and hes a wanted man into polyfuse a request to detain the former chairman going skipped bail in japan and fled to lebanon. Im paul race for the sport the n. B. A. Pays its tribute to david stern the man who built the modern game and on the court last years most valuable player gets 2020 off to a flying start for the box. Hello everyone in the past half hour the parliament in ankara has approved a government motion to deploy troops to libya in support of the un recognized administration in tripoli thats been fighting against the war lord Khalifa Haftar remember it was his forces who launched that offensive to capture the capital last april turkey says its troops will protect its. Right in the mediterranean and interests in libya like the deals that anchor in tripoli recently signed on military cooperation and maritime boundaries but there were challenges turkish opposition parties were against the move they say ankara should have 1st given priority
Michael odonnell, who would missing in action during the vietnam war. Sunday night 8 00 eastern on cspans q a. The campaign played a major role in ensuring a u. S. Victory in the world war ii pacific theater. Next, to historians who are authors of books on the historic war give talks about two key events on the campaign. The battle of the Philippine Sea and the battle of saipan. This was part of the National World war ii museums annual conference. Some fantastic presentations for this afternoon. Beginning with our next panel, entitled, dominance, the mariana s campaign. Will hitchcock shared with us last night the reality that many different campaigns were going on in june 1944. Dday being primary amongst them. We are going to hear more later on and tomorrow morning in particular about the eastern fronts. As our next panelists will discuss, some of the most important actions of this global war were taking place in the pacific and in the marianas. By anext panel is led doctor who is the
Eisenhower and George Patton and bradley and how they provided leadership on the allied assaults, especially the european assaults on nazi germany in world war ii. When we heard he was writing his second book to figure out of way to get the museum on the books they need to reread the to have you back. His latest book covers the alliance of the american war effort but this time from the perspective of the president fdr and his war cabinet. The men who were responsible for assembly eng securing the forces of victory and this is a particularly interesting topic from fdr as the commander. So this will be an Exciting Program but before i call him up he didnt just come down here to talk this evening he did extra duty to go above and beyond to work with us through the Leadership Academy who came from around the country to put the headband struggle of world war ii and the 20thcentury and with the shipyards and went to a variety of sites through this city and got them into the swamps with john