. -- satino. it exposed the pacific theater, including the major battles, significant figures, and conclusion of the war with the bombing of hiroshima and nagasaki. thi is abouts 30 minutes -- this is about 30 minutes. welcome to the national world war ii museum. we are in downtown new orleans. here is the museum.

. -- satino. it exposed the pacific theater, including the major battles, significant figures, and conclusion of the war with the bombing of hiroshima and nagasaki. thi is abouts 30 minutes -- this is about 30 minutes. welcome to the national world war ii museum. we are in downtown new orleans. here is the museum. we have different permanent exhibits and today we are in the "road to tokyo exhibit," which will take us through asia. and we have designed the exhibit as a re-creation of the bridge of the uss enterprise, an aircraft carrier of the u.s. navy. as you advance into the exhibit you will start on the ship and get yourself oriented to the war. one thing we like to do is introduce visitors to the main players. we have a lineup of four of them. we have the japanese emperor on the left, who was in many ways responsible for the war in the pacific. we have president roosevelt, our and theally churchill, forgotten character of world war ii, the leader of the nationalist chinese. we fight a war in t

next, we tour the road to tokyo the museum in a new orleans with robert satino. it exposed the pacific theater, 1940 1-19 45 including the major battles, significant figures and conclusion of the war with the bombing of hiroshima and nagasaki. this is about 30 minutes. >> welcome, everyone, to the national world war ii museum. we are in downtown new orleans. here at the museum, we have several different permanent exhibits and today we are in the "road to tokyo exhibit," which is going to take us through the war in the pacific and asia from we have designed the exhibit as 1941-1945. a re-creation of the bridge of the uss enterprise, an aircraft carrier of the u.s. navy. as you advance into the exhibit you will start on the ship and really get yourself oriented to the war in the pacific. one thing we like to do is introduce visitors to the main players. we have a lineup of four of them here, we have the japanese emperor hirohito on the left who , was in many ways responsible for the war in the pacific. we have president roosevelt, our british ally, winston churchil

rob satino. rob is the samuel de murray stone senior historian at the national world war ii museum and institute of the study on war and democracy and is heavily involved in all manner of museum programs and platforms. before that, he was an award-winning professor at the university of north texas and has been a visiting professor at both west point and the u.s. army war college. rob is also a multiple award-winning author, has published ten books, and has most recent this fall. first let's welcome colonel kevin ferrell. [ applause ] >> thank you. i want to thank jeremy collins and dr. rob satino for having me. it's humbling and a pleasure to be here at this national treasure of ours. not sure what to expect coming into this knowing that the general topic was going to be the 20th anniversary of the release of "saving private ryan." and hopefully in my talk when i promise to keep short, you won't see why i earned the nickname of old ether lips when i used to teach cadets at west point. i don't exp

rob satino, the senior historian of the institute and museum. after lunch we'll sit down and see captain dale dye who served as the military adviser on the film. and to finish the day, the cleanup hitter and well up to the job, is our own founding president and ceo dr. nick mueller who will talk about what the film has met to the country, this museum and the overall lasting legacy still being felt today. also encourage you to keep your eyes out for another thing that will be coming out in the next year. which is nick is hard at work on a great book about the d-day landings from the perspective of our oral history collection. it's really a gang busters book. i've been lucky enough to see early chapters really powerful. in addition to this, we know that you the audience will continue as you are be a great part of the conversation and drive the discussions in good ways with your great questions and comments. onto the programs now, i don't want to drone on addressing these people. all of these speakers have amazing resumes and we could waste half of

rod satino for sponsoring my visit here. it's humbling, daunting. it's great privilege to be here at this national treasure of ours. not knowing what to expect coming spoo thcome ing into this. you won't see why i earned the nickname of old ether lips. i don't expect any laughter so my jokes will always miss the mark. the silence works well. i would say i want to come at this topic from three perspectives. first as something that loves films. i can't go to movie theaters because it drives me nuts. they are looking at their phones. i love old movies. this morning's session was fantastic. thank you for those insights. second, i come at it as a student of history. then finally and perhaps most difficultly and i hope some interest to you as a come boot veteran. looking at this film having seen it before i had seen combat any way then reflecting back on it. i saw it as a fairly new major. i was a student at fort leavenworth, kansas. this is after the end of the cold war. this is after somali. the people that can experience them and my case was an interes