all the money going to nhs charities, a guard of honour from the first battalion, the yorkshire regimenttulations. well done! absolutely amazing, amazing achievement. captain tom, how do you feel this morning? fine, fine, yes, i mean i'm surrounded by the right sort of people, so yes, i feel fine. i hope you're all feeling fine too. it is amazing, what i love also is he is a 99—year—old veteran and he has been around a long time, knows everything and it's wonderful that everyone kind of being inspired by his story and his determination. no, i think he is a one—man fund—raising machine and god know what is the final total will be. it's absolutely amazing that my super prince can say some things like that. so, how do you top that? you'd think that a message from a future king would be the icing on the cake. but as he finished his walk, something happened on bbc breakfast that would mean that he and i would embark on an extraordinary musical journey together. when did tom realise this had turned into something completely different? it's only nine, ten days ago i think that this all started

all the money going to nhs charities, a guard of honour from the first battalion, the yorkshire regimentre he is. congratulations. well done! absolutely amazing, amazing achievement. captain tom, how do you feel this morning? fine, fine, yes, i mean i'm surrounded by the right sort of people, so yes, i feel fine. i hope you're all feeling fine too. it is amazing, what i love also is he is a 99—year—old veteran and he has been around a long time, knows everything and it's wonderful that everyone kind of being inspired by his story and his determination. no, i think he is a one—man fund—raising machine and god know what is the final total will be. it's absolutely amazing that my super prince can say some things like that. so, how do you top that? you'd think that a message from a future king would be the icing on the cake. but as he finished his walk, something happened on bbc breakfast that would mean that he and i would embark on an extraordinary musical journey together. when did tom realise this had turned into something completely different? it's only nine, ten days ago i think that t

we had abc company, the first battalion and he was with a company at the time. so the 23rd, the day i knocked out the pill boxes and did my job, vernon wasn't with me at the time all this happened. but following that, we got back together again. we were down to, well, i'll back up a moment. we hit the beach, our company hit the beach with around 270 marines, that was a normal company strength, first, second, third platoon, border platoon, et cetera. on march 5, we were down to 17 people. that's all we had left. so vernon came over as a result of that. he was brought over by first sergeant somebody, not me. but he came over to assist me. on the fifth, we got a whole group of replacement marines straight from the states that graduated boot camp, but they had not had any advanced training. but they brought them in to replace the loss that we had had. so the night of the 5th of march, we spent all night training these marines, they had never seen a flame thrower. many of them had never fired a machine-gun. and certainly -- or a mortar. so they were divided up. all t

i was with c company first battalion, the bob cats of the 25th infantry division. the company was being used as a maneuver force to chase charlie into a trap. soldiers were dismounted and primarily chasing the vc on foot. it was a hot and dirty day. towards the end of the day, while on a break, this exhausted soldier and i climbed in the back of an armored personnel carrier to rest. i loved the way the sunlight came through the hatch, and i quietly took a shot of him while he was sleeping. the next photo was taken 6 october 1967 at a vietnamese refugee village. near camp bernard. the 344th detachment a fifth special forces group sent a medical civic action program team to the village to conduct a sick call. i noticed many of the village children had major taken one of their jeeps and laughingly took the shot. the next photo was taken on 10 november 1967 in the village of thuangau. as a goodwill gestures, members provided lunch and sundry items to the villagers. le here you see staff sergeant ul maple and a small vietnamese girl laughing at some of the events going

were knew which battalions going to be first landers. i wanted the guys to be with them. wereple of weeks before we , i sent my guys out to the battalions so they thed know the people in commanding officer so the people would know that they were with them, not strangers and anything like that. i wanted them to get training with the unit. fromshot everything getting prepared to go aboard aboardn ship, training ship, stuff like that. each one of them would do the same kind of story so that we would have compilation of all of it at some time or later and we want to edit a film. -- later when we want to edit the film. the battalion commander i thought would be into trouble the most. that would be where the best pictures would be made. .is name was jim crowe he was a major. he was well known, a sharpshooter, on the major team that would compete against the other services every year. he was a great football player. that was a big thing in those days. been -- i don't think he had been in world war i, but he had been in what we call the manner wars. -- banana wars. i got an appoin

we were not supposed to go in on the first wave because he as the battalion commander would have ample boatloads of marines to come in after the first landings had been successful. he also had his assistant battalion commander ashore with the men. he knew that they would be well taken care of. but all of a sudden he saw the amphibious tractors that had carried in most of the first three waves sort of piling up against the pier. we used to say looked like a junkyard, they were piling up on each other because the pier stopped them. there was a japanese machine gunner buried in a tank top on one side over there and he was shooting machine gun bullets at the tractors, and they were not heavily armored or anything. i imagine the driver was hearing bullets going on and scared to death. that was causing jim crow to sit out there and say i am losing my beachhead. i don't have any beachhead and i have all these boats coming in. coxswain, put this goddamn boat in right now. so we did. as we hit the reef, which we knew would happen, pulled to lower the ramp and get down. now we had to go over the

first core is commanded by major general hunter. they conceive an idea on how to rescue the lost battalion. they start bringing in troops surrounding the germans. eventually, penetrate through the woods and get to whittle sees men on october 6th. at out out of the 554 men, less than 200 have survived. all the others are either killed in action, or have been taken prisoner. the event itself takes on a life of its own as one of the important stories of the news archive battle and for the american experience in world war one. the story does not end there. the lost battalion continue on with the 77th and fight their way through the argonne forest. it was an extremely dramatic event, because after the war, he is inundated with letters from some of the survivors of the loss battalion to seek his help financially, and trying to get benefits from the government. also this event the fact that he lost so many men weighed heavy on him whittlesey himself would receive the medal of honor and he was selected to go on in november of 1921 in to carry the unknown soldiers at arlington cemetery. after that e

first army. the newspaper reporter sends word back to his editor in the united states and he coins the name the lost battalion. the truth of the matter is the 554 men were not lost. they knew where they were. the division commander, major general alexander knew where they were. and they weren't truly a battalion. again, they were conglomeration of men. it was a difficult situation. and over the course of almost six days, they are losing men daily. the germans are firing on them. some of the men leave to try to get water. they encounter some germans who give one of the men a note to bring back to major asking them to surrender. he refuses. he wants to hold out.;ba they end up dropping the supplies over the line. so finally, the plane gets over the site where the lost battalion is and able to get them some supplies. and as he's heading back to the area near 77th division headquarters, german machine gun rakes the plane and it crashes killing both the pilot and his observer. harold getler and irwin blekly. they become heroes of this event and both are posthumously awarded the medal of honor. at first corps headq

first army. the newspaper reporter sends word back to his editor in the united states and he coins the name the lost battalion. the truth of the matter is the 554 men were not lost. they knew where they were. the division commander, major general alexander knew where they were. and they weren't truly a battalion. again, they were conglomeration of men. it was a difficult situation. and over the course of almost six days, they are losing men daily. the germans are firing on them. some of the men leave to try to get water. they encounter some germans who give one of the men a note to bring back to major asking them to surrender. he refuses. he wants to hold out. meanwhile, the 77th division is trying to get into the forest. but as can you see, it's very dense. its very difficult terrain. it's rocky. there is ravines and small streams going through it. so he sends relief by airplane. he commands the squadron to fly over and drop supplies. the first day they fly over, they drop the supplies. it's cloudy. it's rainy. the pilots can't exactly see where his men are. they end up dropping the supplies over the line. s

he taught in the tactics department, where his experiences as a machine gun battalion commander during the first world war caught the eye of the assistant commandant of the infantry school, lieutenant commander george c. marshall. his performance their mark him as a martial man and destine him for the future success he would see. after the command general staff school, he moved to manila where he pioneered a method for crossing a river using only the battalion's organic equipment. almond began his transition to the army's senior leadership of attendance at the u.s. army war college where his classmates included major omar bradley, with whom he had also taught at fort benning, william halsley, and 46 other future flag officers. after graduation, he was assigned to the war department general staff. his love for training was rooted in his own thirst for knowledge, and he lobbied hard for the chance to attend both the air force tactical school, which is a predecessor of the air war college, and the naval war college. he did very well in all of his academic assignments, and this unfortunately earned

because of the initiative i'd show, that was one of the reasons i became a first lieutenant ahead of people in my battalion older than me, much to their chagrin. in any case, that was one little tidbit out of six months -- we were in training for a year from january to december. and then we were going, when we went overseas on the queen mary, 15,000 men approximately. it was crowded. over half the men were very seasick. i recall being seasick. i was prone to that. fortunately the officers had a specific responsibility. we were supposed to go up in the rigging of the ship and other precarious positions to be lookouts for submarines or anything in the water. they had some degree of surveillance but that was not highly developed. i never understood why the germans were not able to torpedo one of these ships. i thought a submarine could get out ahead of them and change its course and it cannot be that -- do that as rapidly as a huge ship like the queen mary. we went across the northern atlantic and landed in scotland and went by plane down to henley where the regattas are held not 30 minutes out of london. we

battalion, and near ridden. fighting with the eight illinois. the 371st, and the 369th win. the 369th fought on the line of fire for 191 days. not a foot of ground lost. the firstrican troops to receive the choir -- . many received honored medals when they cleaned up in france the boys came marching home law ♪ ♪ (music) among them was henry jones, killed four and captured 28 germans. for which the french nation decorated them for exceptionally their exceptional bravery they were decorated for you samuel washington, walter waters, william foxx, john sims, charles young. colonel united states army. to their memory, tributes of a grateful nation to commemorate their heroism and sacrifice of all colored soldiers who served in the various wars engaged in by the united states of america. a lasting record shall be made of their unselfish devotion to duty. and in france, the french people erected a memorial to the 371st infantry. the stone on which they stand are dedicated to the negro troops who fought and died here. 23 years later, and anne invading german army -- yes, the nazis destroyed our monuments in france. what our monuments dan and will always stand. the foun

second by the battalion that was -- when with it wasn't the secretary of the navy put foot on the island, a rumor started. nobody knows where or how, that he might like to take that first flag home with him to fly in front of the navy department. so that never happened. but nevertheless the rumor that started and got people scrambling to take down the first flag, because it was their flag, they had carried it from honolulu on purpose to put on the mountaintop, now they did not want somebody to take it away from them and carry it back to washington. they wanted to keep it. a lieutenant aide to the battalion commander, lieutenant colonel overheard johnson talking to the regimental commander who i think was -- wayhe heard was one conversation. but apparently the colonel was telling the lieutenant colonel there is a good chance maybe that the secretary of the navy might want the flag. if you want to keep it, you better get it out of sight. and so. [phone rings] rumor, the that story is and existed for years that the reason the flag was put up was because they did not want the secretary of the navy to take the first one away from them. i work for that sector now. for severa

coronavirus in the first western country to go into such a lockdown, so there was a lot of trepidation about how it will go now that some restrictions are being lifted. the prime minister told battalionsure is in your hands, 4 million people are going back to factories today with masks, social distancing, all of that mandatory. train stations today for the first time have a bit of action. temperatures were taken, self certification documents checked, and then tickets checked. only then could people get on their way. cemeteries were open for the first time since lockdown today, and people could have small funerals. in this first part of phase two as they're calling it, people are allowed to visit relatives up to the 6-degree. so distant relatives even come in people with whom they have "stable relations of affection, i.e. boyfriends or girlfriends, but still, no one is allowed to just go visit friends. they will be further lifting of restrictions in about two weeks' time if the curve does not flatten. >> ed: amy kellogg, thank you. >> sandra: brand-new developments this morning on the sexual assault allegation against joe biden by a former staffer. what the senate is now saying about h