Discussed the defense needs of ukraine and the possibility of joint production of weapons. Since the beginning of the war, albania has consistently supported ukraine in its fight against aggression. The french president s idea of sending troops to ukraine is worthy of attention, so western allies should also think about it. This opinion was expressed by the minister of Foreign Affairs of lithuania, gabrielus lansberges. Added that the fate of europe is being decided on the battlefields in ukraine. Such times require political leadership, ambition and the courage to think outside the box. The netherlands ordered nine of the latest selfpropelled vehicles from the Czech Republic for ukraine dit artillery installations, the ministry of defense of the kingdom reported. These saus have an advanced control system and fire 155 mm ammunition at a distance of up to 39 km. The Czech Republic also ordered 100 mp2 antiaircraft guns, as well as 100 modernized t72 tanks from the usa and denmark
Cspan 3 created by the cable tv industry and funded by your local cable and satellite proprovider much watch us on hd. Follow us on twitter. In the weeks after the june 6th, 1944 dday invasion of normandy france allied troops faced difficult terrain and german fortifications in towns surrounding the beaches. Next military historian John Macmanus talks about what happened in the days and weeks after. What follows from june 7th on ward is an absolute bloody slog that ultimately leads deep into germany and the end of hitlers nazi germany. Heres where it begins. Dday sees this basic situation. You got the five distinctive landing beaches, obviously gold for british, juneau is sandwiched between them. Omaha beach americans carved out an enlargement there and west of that utah beach for the americans. Thats my primary focus the American Experience in normandy and a little bit what that was like. They need to get up to caratan so they can link up the beaches. Utah and normandy need to be link
Months and they wouldnt touch rice either. As far as the mess hall, we didnt have a lot of rice there. We didnt have very good food. It was not too tasty. I came bam from other there and was working in chicago and the Office Manager where i worked was a japanese girl and wound up marrying her and eating rice the rest of my life. [ applause ] lets go back over here. My question concerned which pilot flew the hump first, was it the air commandos or the pilots of the 14th air force . I think it was the 14th air force. Pilots of which organization flew the hump first. Im still not reading you. Which flew the hump first . Do you know . What outfit through over the hump first . There was flight of airplanes. Jake sarks who was my roommate who arrived in india around the first of april and he was in another young man, paul conroy flew a couple of missions before. Jacob was the last airplane out of there. I think most of you heard that they loaded 71 passengers on there. When they arrived in i
He was followed by fred bremmer the bombadeer and myself. I was wondering what it was like on base just day to day when you werent out on missions . Are you talking about for the air commandos there . Yeah. Okay. Pat, do you want to take that. Well id like to accept it might not come as a surprise to you people that all three of us have hearing aides plugged in our ears. Unfortunately the day before i came up here the right one went on the fritz and i sent it in for repair. I dont know what the question was. My grandpa always does the same thing. I was wondering what it was like on base day to day when you werent out on missions. What it was like on what. On base day to day when you werent on missions. Can you describe what it was like when you werent flying missions . Yeah. It was a mad house. Our air strip when you think of c 47s and b 25s and the pursuit ships and all the planes taking off from there. You kind of think we have a paved air strip and it wasnt. As as i understood it, i
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