and elvis presley being a former serviceman certainly respected omar bradley and likened him as a friend. he decided to give bradley this 1911 .45 caliber automatic pistol as a christmas present. and i would say in the past we have had just as much excitement, not only over the pistol but all the over elvis presley's signature and card. the card states to general bradley, with love and respect, elvis presley. >> this is the most amazing flag here, this is the confederate flag that as captured at the , and off antietam course what happened here is you can see it's got this marvelous six-sided folk star, which was somewhat rare. and it is on silk. during that battle at antietam, this flag was dropped in the field by the 11th mississippi. it was picked up by sergeant major kidd and handed to colonel white. and he see let me have this, and of course as you notice this comes right out of the story of "dances with wolves." when you ride across the confederate line with their flag, it makes them very angry, and they were all at the colonel, and he was hit twice. and in real life you do get shot

now, this is general omar bradley who is a pretty good core commander in tunisia. he's a pretty good corps commander in sicily and then he's over his head in normandy when he's promoted two grades above where he has been comfortable. he becomes an army group commander in normandy in the summer of 1944 and he's overmatched in my opinion. he's talking incidentally to terry allen who commands the infantry in sicily and will be relieved of command by omar bradley. and this strutting cock, you may recognize as george patton, and patton is the senior american commander in sicily. and, of course, patton is a special case. he looms very large in the sicilian campaign as the commander of the seventh campaign, but then he disgraces himself by slapping two soldiers on two consecutive sundays in august 1943, soldiers he claims are cowards. in fact, they're both sick. they're in the hospital for a reason, and he is thus disqualified for further command in the mediterranean. patton will spend the italian campaign in purgatory until he is rehabilitated sufficiently to be whisked

eisenhower, montgomery, omar bradley, george patton, tedder ramsey, doolittle spot, alan kirk, beatle smith. it's a very long list. and britain preparing for normandy call themselves the med trainites. eisenhower speaks for all of them when he says the mediterranean theater will always be in my blood. this is eisenhower on the ee of normandy, june 6th, 1944 with his senior subordinate comma commandecomman commanders every one of them except for the man standing behind him has come from the mediterranean. the guy behind him, air marshal lee trafford is -- mallory is not a mediterraneanite and it's a problem for him. so john updike called world war ii the 20th century central myth. he called it a vast imagining of a primal time when good and evil contended for the planet. a tale of troy whose angles are infinite and whose central figures never cease to amaze us with their size. their thee atricality. i use the epigraph of the day of battle about the italian campaign and goes like this. muses, launch your song. what kings were fired for war. what airplanes at their orders throned the pla

now, this is general omar bradley who is a pretty good core commander and pretty good core commandersicily and then he's over he is head in normandy. when he's promoted two grades above where he has been comfortable, he becomes an army group commander in normandy in the summer of 1944 and overmatched in my opinion. he's talking incidentally to terry allen who commands the first infantry division in sicily and will be relieved of command by bradley. and this strun iing one, pattons the senior american commander in sicily. patton is a special case. he looms very large in the campaign as the commander of the seventh army but he disgraces himself by slapping two soldiers on two consecutive sundays in august 1943, soldiers he claims are cowards. in fact, they're both sick and hospital for reason and he is disqualified for further command in the mediterranean. patton will spend the entire campaign in perg toir until he's rehabilitated sufficiently to be wisked back overseas to take a command in france. had that not happened bradley would have continued to be a subordinate to patton and pat

[laughter] is general omar bradley.is a pretty good core commander in tunisia and in sicily and he is over his head and normandy when he has rades over where he was comfortable. he is overmatched, in my opinion. he is talking to carry outland terry allen.-- this strutting cock is george patton. case.rse, he is a special he looms very large in the sicily campaign. of course, he disgraces himself by slapping two soldiers on two consecutive sundays in august 1943, soldiers he claims are both cowards. he is disqualified from further command in the mediterranean. he will spend the entire italian campaign in purgatory until he is rehabilitated sufficiently. had that not happened, bradley would've continued to be .ubordinate to patent -- patton scrutinize two pairs of allied generals. prominent duo are eisenhower and montgomery. they are both short timers and the italian campaign. they both participate for only about four months before taking back -- taken back to england. here is eisenhower on june 7, 1940 four, going to norm

somebody mentioned omar bradley. i was a second lieutenant in vietnam that met him. we got shot up.my unit he said, he wanted to talk about the m-16. i said it does not fire right. that was 1967. he was 80 something years old suddenly, after that, there were all kinds of investigations. no one else would die because of a weapons failure. what if general bradley were here right now? it is ironic that next week, the normandy invasion, sixth of june, i don't feel there is a chain of command or a sense of urgency. my feeling is, who is going to go down and correct these things? i know you had a busy weekend. people are dying. you have to work through the weekend. it is a 24-hour day. there has to be a sense of urgency. i'm coming away from the hearing that the lawyers run everything. there has to be certain decisions made right away to change some of these policies. whether certain people have to be fired or they don't get bonuses, a lot of great people out there. most of them are military. they are probably frustrated. what i am getting up to his i think right now, we are going to talk

mentioned omar bradley.i was a second lieutenant in vietnam that met him. .e got shot up said, he wanted to talk about the m-16. i said it does not fire right. was 1967. he was 80 something years old suddenly, after that, there were all kinds of investigations. would die because of . weapons failure what if general bradley were here right now? it is ironic that next week, the normandy invasion, sixth of june, i don't feel there is a chain of command or a sense of urgency. my feeling is, who is going to go down and correct these things? i know you had a busy weekend. people are dying. you have to work through the weekend. it is a 24-hour day. there has to be a sense of urgency. i'm coming away from the hearing that the lawyers run everything. there has to be certain toisions made right away change some of these policies. whether certain people have to be fired or they don't get bonuses, a lot of great people out there. most of them are military. they are probably frustrated. what i am getting up to his i thin