the yorktown's ship company would stay with yorktown for the duration. air groups were aboard for six months and then rotated out so they could teach what they knew and be incorporated into other squadrons because they wanted some experienced flyers there. in their off time, they were generally in the ready room. there were four ready rooms, one for each of the four squadrons. those ready rooms, i was at the yorktown. it is floating off of patriots point in south carolina. they are not as large as we might think. they are cluttered, but they spend all their time there. that's where they would go to get the final information before the mission. they were playing cards, smoking, teasing one another, whatever the case may be. the aviators i interviewed told me that was pretty much our home base. the ready room, we had ours and haddive bomber pilots theirs. that was pretty much it. a few hours of intense, lethal activity interspersed with many hours of let's fill the time with whatever we can. host: the timeline is important. in most popular memory, you have

host: they were on the yorktown. they had a lot of time between missions, a lot of time to ship out from the united states. board. about life on john: they had the 12 strike mission days and we will say five weeks. time the carrier was moving into position. aboard an aircraft carrier, you much have two crews. you have the ships company of officers and enlisted. the ships company, their task was to take care of the carrier and get it ready to launch aircraft. nothing more than that. before that group. about 300roup of aviators divided into four squadrons. bomberer squadron, squadron and what was called a ball are fighting squadron. sectione a separate before -- aboard the carrier. companytown's ship would stay with yorktown for the duration. aboard for six months and then rotated out so they could teach what they knew and be incorporated into other squadrons because they wanted some experienced flyers there. in their off time, they were generally in the ready room. therefore ready rooms, one for each of the four squad

this county of yorktown pennsylvania came up with this engineered device that keeps hollowing alive in they are launching candies from their front porch and what they call a candy pault. everyone is keeping their distance but the candy flies to the trick-or-treaters. the father who built it said the only problem is they had to get extra candy to keep it loaded. if happy holidays, happy hollowing. dana, you're up next. >> kind of makes me want to get in my car and go over to york. i love that town anyway. i want to tell you about a chicago restaurant owner who was found an amazing way to spend some time during the pandemic. obviously that slow down the food service business. what he did is he got in his plane. edward went into -- began volunteering. he works with pilots and paws that fly cats and dogs at risk of being euthanized to know-kill rescue organizations and foster families across the country. since starting his flights, get this, edward has personally flown over 40 paths to safety. in addition to his flying work, edward also sends out photos of rescue dogs up for adoption in th

and help turn the tide of the battle of yorktown. when wallace surrendered to george washington in 1781. thousand major turning point in the american revolution. he has the beginning of the peak negotiations. i just thought that was fascinating to learn about it an element of the american revolution. that i knew nothing about. >> typically we read about that at the american revolution, through the course of that is if they've ever mentioned. you have described a major arrangement and whether. one other way to look at it is the weather is, at the major reactor. look at each individual hurricane, not just once i talked about in the book. they have a massive impact on that region's local history. however, that impact of rippled well beyond the area of landfal landfall. they could go back and gather data on all of the hurricanes of the modern era since the late 1800s and look at the reverberation of each of those hurricanes. not just with in a community, a region or a state. but for the broader economy. i think hurricanes are probably be

as they left yorktown, relatives and friends of the marchers cheered for two hours. great throngs lined madison and 4th avenue and the head of the line reached the cloak making district. the windows of the factories were black with workers. men ceased work on buildings to cheer at the car men passed. team sters parked their wagons. even police mmen grinned and openly manifested their pleasure at the parade. this was an era of constant parades in new york city. there were election parades. eight-hour day parades with musical entertainment from around the world. there was a protest parade of over 100,000 people in 1911. after one of the great disasters of this era, which had its 100th anniversary. the triangle fire down in greenwich village, where over 100, i think 146 young women jewish and italian were killed when a fire broke out in this triang triangle shirtways factory, which was on the top floor. this is a picture i like. it doesn't seem dramatic. it's just people looking up at this fire. but these are the dead bodies of women who had leap today avoid the flames.