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World War II: 70 Years Later

by kiahunter

National World War II Museum in New Orleans

11am to 3pm ET

LIVE on American History TV on C-SPAN 3

As the nation prepares to commemorate Veterans Day, American History TV will be LIVE on November 7, 2015 from the National World War II Museum in New Orleans as we look back 70 years to the war's end and its legacy. We'll feature taped museum tours, and welcome curators and historians aboard the C-SPAN bus who will take viewer calls and tweets throughout the day.

·         11 am - Tour of the "Road to Berlin" exhibit, Part 1: The Allied invasion of North Africa up to June 6, 1944 - D-Day.  

·         11:30 am LIVE - Keith Huxen, the museum's senior director of research and history, takes viewer calls and tweets on the African and Italian campaigns.

·         12pm - Tour of the "Road to Berlin" exhibit, Part 2: The American experience from the D-Day invasion of France to the fall of the Third Reich. 

·         12:30 pm LIVE - Keith Huxen fields viewer calls and tweets on the soldiers' experience in the European theatre.

·         1pm - "USS Tang Submarine Experience" tour recounting how the Tang sank 33 Japanese ships in five missions before she was sunk by one of her own torpedoes on October 25, 1944. Our guide is Seth Paridon, manager of research services at the museum. 

·         1:30 pm LIVE - Tom Czekanski, National World War II Museum senior curator, takes viewer calls and tweets about the War in the Pacific.

·         2 pm - Tour of the "Fighting for the Right to Fight" exhibit at the National World War II Museum. Exhibit curator Kim Guise uses artifacts, photographs, and video to describe the challenges faced by African Americans in a segregated military and racially divided home front.  

·         2:30 pm LIVE - University of New Orleans professor emeritus Raphael Cassimere Jr. joins us to field viewer calls and tweets about the World War II experience for African Americans.

 

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