we are in a special gallery for us here because our museum was originally founded in the 1990 s as the national d-day museum. our congressional charter is to tell the american experience. in this gallery we get to the where the united states and her allies had to win this particular day. june 6, 1944. behind me is our film narrated by tom brokaw. it gives visitors the overarching story of the day at normandy. next to me on the left is a very special exhibit. this was dedicated to ernie pyle actually walked the beaches of normandy where the american forces landed. he saw the of war left over by troops. what we have in this case is actual arctic actual artifacts and sand from utah and omaha beaches. he talks about shoe polish, showing hand grenades, toothbrushes, razors. columnsignals out in his grading papers. writing papers. the other thing they had an awful lot of for cigarettes. he made the comment that a line of cigarettes up and down the beach marked the high wate
each week, american artifacts visits museums and historic places. next, in the second of a two-part program, we travel to new orleans to visit the national world war ii museum s road to berlin exhibit. this continues the experience in the european theater beginning with the d-day invasion. we are in the normandy landings gallery, a very special gallery because our museum was originally founded in the 1990 s as the national d-day museum by a congressional charter. we were charged with telling the story of the entire american ,xperience in world war ii white was thought, how it was one, what it means today. get to thelery we big moment where the united states and her allies had to win d-day,.ticular day, the hind us is our film narrated by tom brokaw which gives our visitors the overarching story of d-day at normandy. but next to me, over here on the exhibit a very special this is an exhibit case long,ted to ernie pyle s thin line of anguish column. ernie pyle actually wa
good evening to all of you on this thursday night. and as we come on the air, a country in flames has the united states and russia once again, looking across a divide. the cold war, now a deadly tug of war. and these images of the faces of ukranian people caught in the middle, at least 70 people killed and counting. an unremitting duel between protesters who say they want western freedom and police enforcing the alliance with russia and vladimir putin and all that he represents. tonight inside the white house, president obama and his team have to decide whether to take action. so, let s start now with abc s alex marqardt on the ground for us in kiev tonight. alex. reporter: good evening, diane. kiev is very tense tonight. trouble is spreading all across the country. no one knows what will happen next. the battle lines have been drawn, the future of more than just one country. it is a bloody battlefield. everywhere we went, evidence of the horror. the people telling us they
good evening. it s anyone s guess how this ends up, but tonight just over 600 miles to our north and west in a neighboring nation to russia, while russia is hosting these winter olympic games, there has been terrible bloodshed in the beautiful city of kiev in the politically divided nation of ukraine. police today were given the go-ahead to fire on demonstrators with live ammunition and they did. demonstrators who side more with europe than moscow have been in this pitched fiery battle with cops for days, months actually, but it just turned truly violent since we ve been here. our chief foreign correspondent richard engel is there to start us off. good evening. reporter: good evening, brian. just last night we were talking about a truce. it didn t last long. in fact, we watched it unravel in front of us. and today was the deadliest day since this protest movement began. around 70 demonstrators and at least three police killed today and hundreds wounded. protesters charged p
Tolley Fletcher was just 19 years old on June 6, 1944, when he manned the Bofors 40-millimeter anti-aircraft gun on a wooden submarine chaser. He was escorting the Higgins Boats