Memorial, great partners. My thing to kick things off with all the students with us this weekend, i really encourage you to take all of this in from where we start with veterans of the battle of midway 75 years ago through 45 years of American Military history. This is our past and your future and this is a once in a lifetime opportunity. Make the most of it. Id like to welcome admiral frank thorpe to say a few words of welcome before we get started. Good morning. Welcome to the navy memorial. As you all know, our mission here is to honor, recognize and celebrate the men and women of the sea services, past, present and future. And to educate the American Public about your service. Its actually a tremendous honor for us to be here. On a day like today we use the term sea services. Were all in it together. I think these gentleman right here represent the idea of being all in it together. I want to say one thing why were honored and the opportunity you have today. When i look at words lik
Army officer in 2002. He then spent one year in iraq as a tank platoon leader and later, one year tour in afghanistan. Nicholas is a general in the Army Staff College and specialist in war gaming americas inhouse tanker and historian since 2012 and has the nickname of the chieftain. You might want to remember that. His first book on the development of Tank Destroyers is scheduled for release in the first half of 2018. Nick is known for written articles and reviews of tanks inside and out. Lots on youtube called inside the chieftains hatch. Or this video cast on cspans American History tv. Ladies and gentlemen, nicholas moran. [ applause ] thats about as high up as it goes. Good evening oh, boy. Okay. So todays talk is on world war ii and why the sheryl man is as it was. Thats actually not a very good title but the best i could come up with when i was asked by rob, hey, will you give us a talk. I will do the obligatory shoutout, they are the people that asked me to come out here. We are
Okay. So todays talk is on world war ii and why the sheryl man is as it was. Thats actually not a very good title but the best i could come up with when i was asked by rob, hey, will you give us a talk. I will do the obligatory shoutout, they are the people that asked me to come out here. We are a commercial enterprise. If you are interested in tanks, it is not a realistic simulation. On that, i would like to thank the nine mast for inviting me out here. Ive seen some of the other speakers that have spoken here. My god, there are high end personnel. I do not have any letters after my name, i do not teach at the university. I work for an unrealistic video game. Id like to thank them for taking this gamble and bringing this guy out who has no history what stover give you guys a talk. However, despite the disreputable background, as far as the academics are concerned, i promise you everything here is either sourced from the archives or as accurate as i make it. Im hoping this thing will c
Im hoping this thing will come across. If cspan cant hear me, im sure they will make mention. The background. Initially i was asked to come and hear my midst of american armor talk. If you want to hear it go find it. I took some common conceptions. I said, look, these are the common conceptions and they are wrong. Because i had already given the talk, well modify it a little bit. Instead of how good is the tank. Thats the theory behind this. I dont know your knowledge level. Some of the speakers ive heard you here on the podcast are very high end. Every now and then its good to just go back to some of the low levels and make sure fundamentals are still good. Audience participation question number one. The rifle is the m1. What was better as a rifle . Pretty much nothing. You can make an argument but that wasnt as common. What was the better fighter than the mustang. A better carrier than the essex . We had the best. No other country had it. Some people say it won the war. Some say the