Memorial and museum docked at pearl harbor in honolulu, hawaii. Up next, a ceremony aboard the ship to mark the anniversary of the surrender. Esper andnclude mark Hawaii Governor david he gave david. Other distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, a loja and welcome to the battleship memorial here at historic pearl harbor. It is nine oh 2 a. M. , the moment 75 years ago when this on this ship. My name is michael and i am the president and chief executive officer of the uss missouri memorial organization. It is an honor to serve in that capacity and be the mc for this ceremony as we commemorate a huge milestone, the 75th anniversary of one of the most significant events in history, the ending of world war ii. Foremost, i have the honor of welcoming our special guests, world war ii veterans who are with us here today. I will name them individually and ask that you are that you stand if you are able, and remain standing. Please hold your applause at the until the end so we honor them co
Research and latest scientific techniques, and the development of operational hardware. Reduction of human effort, removal of the lifting and movement of heavy burdens from human muscle to the sinews of machine. Improvements in methods for processing, and the ever increasing volume of mail. These are some of the things in which rnd developers are finding new answers. This film will show you a few of the areas of research underway, and some of the developing hardware. The use of controlled and compressed air is getting increased attention for possible use in processing mail. Utilization of control devices could eliminate many moving parts and reduce maintenance costs. As seen in slow motion, this test device and the postal laboratory roles letters over by controlled jets of air. This device separates letters from those that will not pass Mail Processing machines. Another air jet controlled device dates letter to mail in transit. While this one diverts mail automatically. Notice the firs
The rangers doug the rangers are one of the most famous lawenforcement organizations in the world. I would put them up with scotland yard, canadian police, the fbi, that sort of thing. They have been around longer than any state Law Enforcement organization in the united states. They have this worldwide image. That is what i am going to explore a little bit tonight. How they got this image, what this image is, but i think we all have some idea of what a texas ranger is. Maybe from tvs and movies, if nothing else. That was my first exposure to the rangers. Growing up in florida, i watched this disney show called texas john slaughter. Some of you may have seen that. The theme song was texas john slaughter, made them do what they outta, because if they didnt they would die. The lone ranger may be the most most cinematic most famous of the cinematic, tv, and radio rangers that started in 1933. Out of wxyz in detroit. The script was originally called man hunter. But then they changed it to
I wanted to highlight that intimate moment behindthescenes and the friendship that did transpire between a lot of the indian performers and cody. Learn more about the national oneum of American Indians american artifacts. Here on American History tv. Here at the American Museum of history, let me begin with the pandemic and how it has impacted the museum and your division in particular. We are working mostly. Our Museum Closed in march, but we began thinking about the pandemic in january. We are a division of medical historians and we tend to follow the news pretty carefully, especially news about Public Health. So we actually reached out and began speaking with the Public Health service in january because we began thinking about how to collect document this story. So it has been a long process and we have kind of ramped up as we have come home to think about collecting. At what point did you realize this pandemic would stretch into the fall and potential winter . As historians, we hav
Good evening. Im oliver north and im at the National Museum of the pacific war hereein fredericksburg, texas. Welcome to war stories. They called it bloody tarawa. The gibraltar of the pacific. A legendary battle in world war ii that cost the lives of nearly 6,000 combatants in a scant 76 hours. How could so much blood be shed over an island the size of new yorks central park . Japanese commander bragged with weapons like this artillery piece and that tank, he could hold tarawa against a million americans for 100 years. But we proved him wrong. One survivor said that every participant became a hero in spite of himself. Gruesome images of death from this tiny issand stunned our nation and forever changed the way americans looked at the realities of war. This is the story of 12,000 courageous marines and sailors who wouldnt accept defeat in capturing this island from a determined enemy for whom surrender was an option. Summer 1943. America was waging war on two fronts. From north africa,