how can you say in your book luftwaffe? what we did was kill the pilots. , andnother pilot training other sending pilots with 12 hours experience. that's nothing against these guys. they had 120-150 hours in the air. it is a pilot killing campaign. it comes at a tremendous cost. 18,600 allied air casualties before d-day, just in the period before february and june. 10,500 american airmen killed. how many people do you think were killed on d-day? anybody have a guess? student: 60,000? prof. miller: no. student: wasn't it like 5000? prof. miller: 10,000. for all five beaches. british to american. about 10,000. killed on omaha beach, believe it or not, less than 2000. fight but lesse , than 2000. my uncle fought their. there. they were transferred to england when a d-day. they went through the forest in the battle of the bulge and went across the germany or he was captured. they saw everything. these guys took horrific casualties. my uncle's outfit, rifle company. they started with 30 guys in there only two left at the end of

when you meet the luftwaffe on the other side of the channel.tudent: what were the reactions of the men who have to stand there and watch their friends die? prof. miller: they had to go to a flak farm, a country estate, it was volunteered to the government by and rural or a duke. the family may be moved to london. you had to abandon your estate. you had badminton or tennis. you are away from the war for about a week. sometimes it didn't do much , good. all you thought about, you would try to get your mind off it. you are still thinking you have got to go back. that is the thing. that scene we watched last night with john houston, i kept thinking about what a difficult job being a combat surgeon was. let us say you come to me and i am the combat surgeon. and you say that you cannot fly. if you are crazy, then you should be crazy because no one could fly if you are saying. that is the catch. suppose you say you have shakes at night. not traumatic night dreams but tossing and turning. edgy all of the time. tell you that you're are going to go under

it clearly destroyed the left -- luftwaffe. american and british airplanes ruled the skies.ertainly by the late fall of 44 and into 45. think about the resources that had to be devoted to air defense. some people estimate more than 600,000 german soldiers, flak batteries, and all of the rest to provide a roof over hitler's germany. those were soldiers, that was equipment, those batteries could have been on the eastern or western front. think about the german air force itself which 544 or 45 is -- by is devoting 60% or 80% of 1944-1945 production to fighters to protect the air over the reich. those fighter aircraft not available over the eastern or western front. and, that production not available for bombers. clearly by 42 -- i mean between 42, the d-day invasion, the only way we were going to attack germany, the only way that we could bring more to nazi g war to nazi germany, was on the backs of your airmen. eliminating nazis. i mentioned over and over again we destroyed transportation and oil. and the question of morale. was it sufficient in a police state to make them thr

what matters is the luftwaffe. their casualties are staggering. , i gavee the characters onalk earlier in savannah the film we are making. these are major characters. this is rosie rosenthal. 51 missions, a jewish kid from ,rooklyn, all-american athlete baseball, football, lawyer. got a job with a law firm the day after pearl harbor he volunteers. he kept his bow as long as hitler lived he would fly. he react for a couple of missions and went down three times. interesting character. comes back of the end of the war and he is transferred out. the war is over in may. he signs up to go to the pacific. he wants to fly the 29th but the war is over. what he does, he is a lawyer. he reads about the nuremberg trials. they sent him to trial to prosecute german civilians who committed atrocities against downed airmen, hanging them, shooting them, throwing them into burning buildings. he went after these guys. he met a girl he liked named phyllis. they fell in love. she is a trial lawyer. they beginning -- they got married at

this obituary even passed over her controversial love affair with a luftwaffe officer. but later, some newspapers revealed a lingering bitterness nearly 50 years later. it was not the fact that she had slept with the enemy which angered them but the way they had eaten well in the hotels while the rest of france was hungry. after the humiliation of public head shaving, the shorn women were often paraded through the street casually to the sound of a drum as if france was reliving the revolution of 1789. some were marked in paint or lipstick. elsewhere, some who have volunteered to work in german factories had their heads shaved, but that was an exception. women almost always with the first targets because they often were the easiest scapegoats. naturally, for the men who had joined the resistance at the last moment. altogether, at least 20,000 women are known to have had their heads shaved, but the true figure may well be higher, considering that some estimates put the number of french children fathered by germans as high as 80,000. the basically misogynistic reaction of

historical reenactments. 1940.ttle was august 18, southeast military bases were attacked by the german luftwaffen, is patrick who did novels. he drove in an ambulance in it and decided 20 years later that being inre dangerous europe. brendan: you forget what happened in london. and walkingondon, by the houses, and just one of them has been replaced by a house in 1955. fabulous -- tom: fabulous photos. our twitter question of the day -- it is not on donald trump. thank you. who will join the currency war next? it is an important question. not vietnam, not kazakhstan. stay with us. worldwide without twitter question, "bloomberg surveillance." ♪ tom: good morning, everyone. "bloomberg surveillance." let's get vonnie: right to top headlines with vonnie quinn. vonnie:there is a report -- that v there is a report a plea today to child pornography charges. six weeks ago, authorities seized electronics and other items from his home near indianapolis. subway says it ended its relationship with him. workers areuto angry about a plan being studied by g.m.. the company is looking at importing a buick model