This is the Pritzger Lecture Series in American military history.
2Day Heavy Duty New Orleans LA WWII Conference Patrick ODougherty author featured in the Marquee
WW2 Conference New Orleans LA
Notes on the Conference Presenters Talks
From Dr Patrick ODougherty
45th Division
Most ethnically diverse
Thunderbirds in Sicily
Todd
Mud, mules and mountains
Battle plans brak down an commencement
Ernie Pyle
And Bill Mauldin redemptive quality cartoons
January 15th Bill Mauldin is a celebrity after Ernie Pyle Endorsement
Mauldin Pulitzer prize age of 23
Legion of Merit
New Mexico
Depicting suffering
Siegfried line
Worse fighting the better the cartoons got
Rifleman from New Mexico
Battle to fight to overcome disillusionment
Civil Rights
Todd Depastino Ph.d
442nd Japanese Americans
Lynching of black veterans
Prove inequality first
75th anniversary of Winston Churchill’s Iron Curtain Iron victory speech
Soviet autarchy
HUAC
Charles Schultz a machine gun squad leader WW2
Worshipped Mauldin
Schulz down bar
Didn’t change cartooning
Like Thomas NAST
Transformational impact on the conscience of the culture
Not the techniques of cartooning
Grief great Mauldin
Churchill lion tears
Work to get the humor
Words fail us we need image makers
6cartoons a week
Jeremy Collins
STARS & STRIPES
Courage to go back to the front
Artillery fires all fire quiet DRUNK
Patton and Bradley ETO
Undermine war effort
92 Andrea 367Subversive work WW2
Burma Road mythologized
Black sheep squadron
Japan attacking China
Flying Tigers
Sam
Doolittle Raiders reunions
Clouds over Japan
Jet streams 200 miles per hour
B-29
2000 bomb Raiders would die
Guam ‘s North field LeMay
300 bombers
Hirohita’s highway
FlyingTigers
Young pilots
From above to Japanese bombers
One shot down over Bier-man
Mission stories
B-29 dew 3000 mile missions
Tokyo Recaliberated is fighters
B-29 crews exhausted sleep deprivation
Chenault14th Air Force commander—Back woods Indiana
LeMay Mitchell
Curtis LeMay Ohioan poor family
Mother had an 8 th grade education
Self made man
Eat fish work
Ohio state student worked in a Foundry
Engineer engineers mind set
Combat box formation!
Break down analyzing rebuilding
High altitude precision bombing
Science minded
War time letters —Sleep deprivation
Tireless workers
Flying tigers had an abbreviated tenure
Defend China from a Japanese invasion
Diversion of Japanso all forces wouldn’t be directed against American troops.
Reed came home to Iowa
John Wayne the Flying Tigers
Movie
Air Force records of LeMay library of Congress records
Fire bombing of Tokyo survivors interviewed
A generation of Letter writers and Diary keepers
Chennault family documents preserved
Higgins Industreis 20,000 landing craft
April 12, 1945 Roosevelt died in office
Japanese Garden Francisville
Buddha Tradition
Black historians
93rd Division Blue Hell Fighting in the Pacific.
October 1925 The Use of Negro Man Power in War
Negroes are weak
Jack Dees
National War College
Medal of Honor Medal Winners Williams
369th
92nd Division Black Soldiers
368th
Flawed report on Black soldiers
Not verified by oral histories of Black Soldiers
American Milirary is built on a Foundation of White Supremacy
White women issues
Natural hierarchy upset by demonstrations of courage of black military leaders in the combat zones92nd Division reports in Italy
Family history is crucial it is the crux
White supremacy
An Officer and a gentleman
The bias is no black soldier could be an officer. Black soldiers are not gentleman
Pasta under is the German research center off the Northeast shore of Germany!
The Fuse yield points break points pressure points
Physics research laboratory
Columbia professor
Ossilatory the battery
Shock absorbers
Filaments
Vacuum tubes
Rival was the V1
Guns equipped with section T fuses
Anti-aircraft batteries against the V1
Proximity fuse made commands firing regular
Manhattan Project
Radiation lab at MIT
Jamie
Bazooka gets more pier and accuracy than anti-guns
Tank destroyer battions were more effective
Naval gunfire was very effective
Idea leads to productivity
Machinewarfare
Behind the curve
Reverse Engineering
It bursts
Bulge
Battle of
Time fuses
VT fuses
110 companies produced the proximity fuse Sylvania and Raytheon are major produces
Bush
Sherry made the capacitors
Dr John McManus!
Chair
The Pianist
Schindler’s list
104th Division
The Timber Wolf Division
Piecing together narratives
Genealogy research
Oscar Perdomo, an Ace in a Day 5 emery planes in the Pacific
464 Fighter Squad Unit
Medal of Honor Upgrade
Patrick in theBarrio,
Boyle Heights LA
Passion
Jeremy Collins, historian
Pedro DeValle Commander Maine Corp
Jewish stories have been bound into the White stories
Ken Burns documentary left out Hispanic Americans 14 hour documentary
Oral history project at the University of Texas
PTSD
Terry De La Mesa Allen
Hispanics buried in Italy
Patriots in the Barrio
Fir bombing of Japan
Nimitz
400 planes firebombed Japan
500 B-29 hit Tokyo
Potsdam Declaration
9 miles away from atomic bomb blast
Midway a Turning Point at the Operational Level
So many nations in WW2 No one Turning Point
Stalingrad
Alamein
When iniative changes is the Turning Point
Battle of Midway
Germans captured in Stalingrad
Not enough offensive to take the City
Radio range in the dessert
Before Alamein no wins after Alamein no losses
Churchill end of the beginning
Fall of Singapore pdefeats in Egypt France Greece
Attrition war
Island hopping
Set up dominos 1944
Political eye
Historians eye
Gymnast becomes Torch
North Africa
1942 Operation sledge hammer launch would be a disaster
WW2 African Americans on the Homefront
Pearl Harbor Day
Started voting DFL
Dorsey Miller
Rushed to enlist
Black Republicans many
Lynching laws
March on Washington
Earlier March
1941
A Philip Randolph
Head of the Black Sleeping car porters
The Color Line
First meetings in Harlem
FDR call off the March
8802 Fair Employmebt Practices Commission
Defense contract you can’t segregate your factory
Black Migration
With the war
2nd great migration
Women jobs as domestics and laundry washers
Teachers!
War as education
Segregation & Jim Crow
Voters in Detroit and Milwaukee
WW2
7 Northern States
Double V campaign
Coined by Pittsburg Courier
City of Hattiesburg, MS
Camp Shelby 100 miles from NOLA
Not compromise on segregation of Troops
Price Control
10 price gouging
Detroit 1943
Race riot
Soldiers Vote Bill
Integrated Public Housing starred the Riot
6000 troops to go to Detroit
MoTown Riot
G.I. Bill affected Afro-Americans
Soldiers voting Bill
No absentee ballots from soldiers
Absentee ballots did not identify race
New Deal Economic empower people to participate in NEP
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