World war ii mess yes, maam. Every 2 weeks, i appreciate. Im also the Senior Historian at the museum which is my proudest boast. Welcome to another installment of meet the author series here at the museum where we bring the best world war ii literature and the men and women who write and create it. Before i introduce tonights author a man who truly needs no introduction, which means he will go ahead a real solid one. Let me carry out the tradition of the National World War Ii Museum and public programming. Are there any chance world war ii veterans or home front workers in the audience tonight . Not. There we go. [cheers and applause] i knew there were two right up front. [applause] to say we thank for your service is understatement of the century. Thanks to all of you for your support and service. We have incredible good of friends. The good folks of cspan are here filling tonight. I want you all to be on your best behavior because c pan is forever. I would like to acknowledge those w
Is my honor to turn him to run this discussion about unknown air missions. [applause] thank you. As pete said, the title of this panel is unknown air missions. Some into this panel but they peaked in 1943 but we move to 1944s we have other debacles to talk about. Were going to look at operation enter horn and operation frantic, the first is sometimes bizarre and attempt to deploy between nine to the china burma india theater and the others and attempt to shuttle bond with the russians that did more to launch the cold war then to end world war ii. Theres a nasty pattern emerging here for the panels they want me to moderate. The last conference i got to sit and rickich Frank Atkinson who talked about the so i feel obligated to say today as i said then, that i want to remind everyone here we did eventually win the war. [laughter] we have to great presenters search date good friends of mine and trevor presenter. First is Tami Davis Biddle besides responsible for the most import parts of th
Him to run this fascinating discussion about unknown air missions. Tom . Tom thank you. [applause] tom thank you. As pete said, the title is unknown air missions. Down they burn airfield, so we move to 1944, so we have got a couple of other debacles tobacco to talk about. The sometimes bizarre and ultimately abandoned attempt to employ in the china theater, and the other is an attempt to shuttle bomb that did much more to launch the cold war than it did in world war ii. Part here. Nasty got to setember i next to rich and rick, so they the forests, so i feel obligated to say today as i said then that we have to remind everybody here that we did eventually win the war. [laughter] now, we have two really distinguished panelists, terrific presenters. Biddle. Tammy davis ist of the curriculum, she also working on a project in the manpower and mobilization for world war ii that i guarantee is going to na pulitzer prize, just to set the bar where it should be for her. I appreciate it. Work on
And thank you tonight for cspan for being here. This is a first for me. Maybe you guys are used to this. Im going to cover just a few basic things before we get started. Copies of the book are available downstairs. I think they are at the register. You can purchase them there and then bring them up here to get signed after the event. If you could take a moment silence your phones, i think we would all appreciate that. Youre welcome to take photographs. You can post them on social media, if theyre good. And then after the event, or after the author has finished speaking it will be a q a. Then if you could please wait for a mic, come by with a a microphone so we can all hear your question, that would be great. All right, lets get started. James hornfischer, hes a writer, a literary agent and a former book editor. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller neptune inferno, the last and other 10 can sailors and the ship of goes. Hes widely acclaimed historical accounts of the u. S.
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