you laugh, but believe me, i am not like others with their haircuts and crazy love in every port, cherbourg in london, i have the honor. yes, sir, good evening, veyas sergey, good evening, what grace , i wish the shore would come sooner, sooner, do you really want to say these amorous sailors? allow me your hand in farewell, what hands do you have, what hands, like those of the glove maker of cherbourg or the beauty of the london casino, who told you this, ah, what does it matter. have a pleasant evening, windy yumisha, scoundrel, please smoke, gentlemen. "the barometer is ticking, stepan dmitrievich, it might storm towards night, that's how it's heading, perhaps we won't make it to the end of our happy voyage, let's go and have a look." what a beautiful sound, you are very musical, vladimir alekseevich, and answer me, that is the answer of a true gentleman, and you shut up, gentlemen, gentlemen, vladimir alekseevich, what are you allowing yourself to do? a puppy, and you, you are a traitor and a pathetic gossip, what have you done, vladimir alekseevich, he will not let it go, let you not..

we can't get to cherbourg or le havre in time. and hughes holland said, well all i can say is that if we can't capture report, we'll have to take one with us and laughed, just like you did. just like that around the table. and then it got quiet and somebody said, well, why not. and of course we did. now, churchill, who loved gimmick weapons instinctively was a huge advocate of this. the facility at mulberry, a constructed off beach, and mulberry b of gold beach are often claimed to be one of the major reasons why the allies were able to be triumphant. even samuel eliot morris then argued that the artificial harbors were a key to allied success. now, far be it from me to samuel eliot morison, but i wonder if this too isn't of that hindsight about cleverness. we can talk more about during the q&a if you're interested. in the end, of course, none of this would have mattered without the courage and determination of the soldiers themselves who stormed the beaches, dropped into the dark night, who glided down silently. so in that respec

from the rear and that was a tough fight, but once they got cherbourg and cleared the harbor of the wreckage, the germans had sunk there. then they were able to use that to to resupply and reinforce and evacuate the wounded. so thank for the question that you get. here is mike's comment comment. thank you. let's say three or four questions. oh, three or four questions. well, i thought i'd get them early when donuts had some sort a submarine fleet left. why didn't have the screening out there trying to find 6000 ships or more in the atlantic. well why didn't doenitz deploy his submarines more efficiently so that he could interfere with the invasion? he doesn't have that many left. the few that he have are all operating out of the bay of biscay and the ones who have the schnauzers which are the ones that could have made it maybe who shan't and into the bay of the seine to interfere with that fleet. they had them all bottled up. they just could not get out of the bay. escape. now, the other part is, as you know, the higgins boat drivers played a big role. one did earn the medal of hono

. >> don owens landed on d-day plus seven at utah beach and fought in the battle for cherbourg.served in the army for three years. lewis, u.s. army, mr. so cox was so eager to serve his country in world war ii, that he enlisted in the army at age 15, lying about his age. he was soon discovered and sent home, but when he was old enough , he served during the korean war where he was a driver for the m 39 armored utility vehicle and merited the purple heart. joseph elmer stroud, u.s. navy, mr. stroud served probably in the navy from 1943 to 1946. theodore budd seuss, u.s. army, mr. sue served from 1942 to 1946 in the united states is a technician and mechanic on communications equipment, including the crucial teletype machines. billy vye, he served in the european theater of operations with the famous adf infantry division, participated in the battle of the bulge and was awarded the bronze star. he will celebrate his 100 birthday next week. [applause] dan, u.s. marine corps, dan enlisted in the u.s. marine corps as soon as he was old enough. and served in the occupation of europe a