for us, it's time to leave the adriatic coast. until next time, from brussels, goodbye.captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org--

i will begin by setting the stage for how the 30 americans arrived in albania across the adriatic from italy in north of greece. i will then discuss the daring rescue read a small section from the book share some photos and we can end with any questions you have. in early november 1943, 13 flight nurses and 135 medics ordered to see 53 transfer plane with a four-man flight crew. the nurses and medics were traveling from their headquarters on the island of sicily to bari italy in the north where they were scheduled to pick up wounded patients from a different lines and the front lines and transfer them to more fully equipped hospitals around the mediterranean. bad weather had plagued the area for the past three days and patients had piled up. though the weather was sunny and clear when the plane took off that november day the aircraft soon encountered a violent storm that pushed the plane off course. the flight flight crew managed to avoid dangerous waters spouts that formed around them but they were surrounded by the weather, headlines can indication with their destination and their in

the whole part of adriatic.ng up and a lot of places to stay and are very popular. i would also say southeast asia. not just your standards like bangkok, et cetera. laos. myanmar is opening up as a lot of place. a lot of adventurous find their place into myanmar. liz: i would think you have to have that risk bite within you. as we finish up you're spending a lot on market canning. you just launched, what is not a cheapen defer here. booking.yeah. this is campaign. unusual to be spending this much money. what do you hope you glean from it? >> what is really important for us in america we're the world's largest accommodation site but most americans don't know about it us. we did win the jd power award for top travel site in america. people love our product. we've always been fending a lot of money on google and other sort of searches as you mentioned. allowing americans to know we're out here and that we're here in america serving domestic business as well. making sure we're top of mind when people are making thei

after several hours in there and not realizing across the adriatic ate said the best chance of survival was to land the plane. they saw an interview with german planes that look like they been abandoned at some head during the war. but when it attempted to land, the plane suddenly came to life and americans were under fire. the pilots quickly ascended the aircraft on defined themselves in the path of two german fighter place. the routine two-hour flight had turned into a five hour journey and the pilots were not dodging enemy planes without any weapons to defend themselves. they ducked in and out of clouds in attempt to evade the fighter planes and eventually found a small patch of land record between -- nestled between rugged mountains where they claim. as the crane went along the ground saturated with water to land your slowly sank in the mud until it's completely submerged. it brought the plane to a violent stop. the force and that the plane's nose in the marshy land and the fuselage hovered upright for a few seconds before falling to the ground and a belly flop. the crew chief was i

valley and keep the pressure on the germans from their, you should invade through the head of the adriatic, he wants to go through place that is a way of getting toward vienna. eisenhower said i'm not going to any gap i can't pronouns. the americans basically put their foot down and they're the big boys on the block at this point and churchill has to accede to the demands of eisenhower and roosevelt as it turns out that the southern france invasion will take place, that the forces in italy will be reduced, the fighting continues in italy until the beginning of may of 1945 partly in order to keep those german forces tied up and not allow them to reinforce the normandy front. >> host: december of 1944 from "the guns at last light: the war in western europe, 1944-1945" particularly alarming to g is was a cigarette shortage. u.s. army soldiers alone smoked more than a million packs a day in europe. million packs of cigarettes a day. >> and dwight eisenhower did more than his share. he is smoking four packs of cigarettes a day himself. the had to have it. cigarettes were included, he got severa

you should invade through the head of the adriatic. i can't pronounce some of the names, but the americans basically put their foot down. churchill has to exceed the demands of eisenhower and it turns out that the forces in italy will be reduced. but the fighting continues in italy right until the beginning of may of 1945 partly in order to keep the german forces from publishing what they set out to. >> host: from your book, "the guns at last light: the war in western europe, 1944-1945", there was a cigarette shortage. the u.s. army alone smoked more than a million packs a day in europe. a million packs a day in europe of cigarettes. >> guest: that is right, dwight eisenhower smoked more than his share. here is a guy that is looking for packs of cigarettes per day himself. so he had these habits. so you can take away the ammunition. but lord, don't take away the cigarettes. there was a serious shortage that had more to do with the shipping issues then natural physical shortage of cigarettes. the troops were riotous. this was a big prob