sean taught at massachusetts college of liberal arts and at the university of mississippi. so without further ado, i turn it over to dr. scanlon. really? well, thank you very much, jeremy jeremy, for that introduction. and thank you all very much for joining us this evening. jeremy, sort of stole my joke about midwestern midwestern universities, but i think as a as nebraska, i feel well-suited to moderating between our kansas state ph.d., our university of kansas ph.d. i'm going to keep my remarks very brief. i think, as we've seen throughout our earlier programing today, in many ways, the battle, the bulge is seen as very much a ground campaign. our focus has been on 101st airborne, on various infantry divisions, on armored divisions, on the soldiers on the ground. and as our two panelists are going to talk about here today, there's a really important air power component to this engagement. and first, i'm going to turn the mic over to my colleague, john, who's going to talk about the german side of the air campaign and then i'm going to turn it over to dr. brian laslie to talk about the allied side. so without further ado, john curatola, thank you. so much. you probab