eastern on lectures in history, university of kansas professor adrian lewis on omaha beach and the 1944 d-day landings in normandy, france during world war ii. >> the normandy invasion, he was selected because of his poorly inended, for the defendant 1943. at most, at omaha beach it was called that -- they had a couple of italians. -- battalions. i year later when rommell is put in charge, a lot of the forces had been moved forward. a at 10:00 on real america, monthly film series on the activities of president lyndon johnson. >> he remarked one of the chief executive's most important jobs was attracting able intelligent public servants to washington. the month of june would see two major appointments, first the secretary of commerce and thurgood marshall as associate justice of the supreme court. at 6:30 eastern, george washington university history professor discusses the cold war competition between the u.s. and china to influence new independent african and asian countries. >> during the 1960's, the rivalry intensified. this is an important point where i think to many american policy

eastern on lectures in history, university of kansas professor adrian lewis on omaha beach and the 1944 d-day landings in normandy, france during world war ii. >> the normandy invasion, it was selected because it was poorly defended, poorly dissented in 1943. at most at omaha beach, they had a couple of italians. that is when it was selected. a year later when ronald was put in charge of defenses, all those forces we talked about have been moved forward. >> at 10:00 eastern on real america, in 1967 monthly film series on the activities of president lyndon johnson. >> he remarked one of the chief executive's most important jobs is attracting able and talente public servans to washington. first, the secretary of commerce. and thurgood marshall, associate justice of the supreme court. >> sunday at 6:30 eastern, george washington university history professor greg burzynski talks about the cold war competition between the u.s. and china to influence newly independent african and asian countries. 1960's, thee rivalry intensified. this is an important point where i think to many american polic

on lectures in history, university of kansas professor adrian lewis teaches a class the 1944ha beach and d-day landings in normandy, france, during world war ii. describes the allied military strategies as well as the command structure on each side. he talks about the challenges faced by american troops when trying to land on omaha breach a -- and beach. and argues the outcome was not inevitable. this class is about 50 minutes. dr. lewis: syllabus, page 10. yourion number 7 and 8 on syllabus. page 10. describing characterize the normandy invasion. why do the allies is exceed? german defensive plan and allied offensive plan. explain the victory and defeat. why was the normandy invasion significant? question number 8. why was the battle for omaha beach a flawed victory? you have the questions. those are the questions we want to deal with the. beach"? read " omaha here we go. let me try it one more time. common have read -- how many have read it? about half. thesis. someone helping out. what is the thesis there? you are going to help me out. basicially i basically is saying that the ope

on lectures in history, university of kansas professor adrian lewis teaches a class the 1944ha beach and d-day landings in normandy, france, during world war ii. he describes the german and allied military strategies as well as the command structure. he also talks about the challenges for american troops when trying to land on omaha beach and argues the outcome was not inevitable. this class is about 50 minutes. syllabus, page 10. question number seven and eight, questions number seven and eight on the syllabus, page 10. describe and characterize the normandy invasion, why the allies succeed, analyze german defensive plans, explain victory and defeat, why was the invasion significant? question number eight. why was the battle for omaha beach a flawed victory? those are the questions we want to deal with today. how many have read omaha beach? here we go. [laughter] let me try one more time. how many have read it? ahh. about half. thesis, someone help me out. what is the thesis? you're going to help me out. the thesis basically is saying that the operations failed and the soldiers were

eastern on lectures in history, the university of kansas professor adrian lewis on omaha beach in the d-day landings in normandy france. >> the normandy invasion, normandy was selected because it was poorly extended -- defended. so at most, at omaha beach they had a couple of battalions. that is when it is selected. a year later, all of those forces, a lot of the forces have been moved forward. series0:00, a 1967 film on the activities of president lyndon johnson. >> he had often remarked that one of the chief executive's most important jobs was attracting public service to washington. the month of june with the two major appointment, alexander -- as secretary of commerce and thurgood marshall as supreme court justice. discussesg brezinski the cold war competition between influencend china, to newly independent countries. theuring the 1960's, rivalry intensified and this is an important point where i think so many american policymakers, chinese activities in southeast asia and africa start to become more worrisome than soviet activities. jeremy: at 9:00 p.m. -- p.m., talkingt about ge

university of kansas professor adrian lewis on omaha beach and the 1944 d-day landings in normandy france. during world war ii. >> the normandy invasion, normandy was selected because it was poorly defendant in 1943. at most, it omaha beach birth some they had some battalions. a year later when ramos was in charge of the defense is all of the forces we talked about had been moved forward.>> at 10 o'clock on reel america in 1967 monthly film series on the activities of president lyndon johnson. >> he often remarked that one of the chief executives most important jobs is attracting able and talented public servants to washington. the month of june would see two major appointments. first alexander - as secretary of commerce. and thurgood marshall. >> sunday at 6:30 p.m. eastern george washington university professor discusses the cold war competition between the us and china to influence newly independent african and asian countries. effectiveness was the fact that he could have three, four, 5, 6 different combat patrols out any given night. >> complete american history tv schedule go to c-s

of kansas professor adrian lewis on omaha beach and the 1944 d-day landing in normandy france during world war ii. >> the normandy invasion was selected because it was poorly defended in 1943. at most, at omaha beach was going to be called omaha beach and they had a couple of battalions. that's when it was selected. a year later when all those forces, a lot of the forces we just talked what had been moved forward. >> at ten a 1967 monthly film. on the activities of a president lyndon johnson. >> he often remarked that one of the chief executive important jobs is attracting able and talented public servants to washington. the month of june with the two major appointments. first, alexander the secretary of commerce and thurgood marshall associate justice of the supreme court. >> sunday at 6:30 p.m. eastern george washington eastern professor greg brezinski discusses the cold where competition between the us and china to influence newly independent african and asian countries. >> during the 1960s this us rivalry intensified and this is an important point where i think too many american