how traditional is this to sicily? >> i think from the part of the sea they almost eat a roll. >> always. >> yes. >> but fisherman only, fishing communities only or in restaurants? >> no. >> always as long as you could arrived, you see crudo like this? >> no. i see crudo in the poor family. >> so, it's not like there's japanese influence, but the japanese sort of gave everybody permission to eat traditional foods, their own traditional food. what are the great mother sicilian classic dishes? >> the anchovy. anchovy and parmesana. [ speaking foreign language ] >> that's with the sardine. >> yeah, but it's an explosion of flower, but this plate, it's arab, born in the period when sicily was very poor. >> this i like. i even remember it. pasta al fino, actually a true sicilian classic made with fennel, pine nuts, saffron and anchovy, served alongside some sardines that have been curing in chestnuts and salt for days, then lightly fried in oil. >> we have to use our hand, use our hand to eat the fish. >> no problem. i must

north africa, sicily, italy. the air war was going on throughout 1942 to 1945, and it was the one part of the war where we were constantly trying to hit nazi germany. couldn't strike them from north africa or italy physically, but we could from the air. and you can see this on our maps where we are launching missions from out of north africa, and especially from great britain where the eighth air force was located. now, in this gallery with the air war, the air war went through several stages. you have some initial beginnings, and then, most importantly, by the end of 1943, we are basically losing the air were very badly. -- air war very badly. we are losing disproportionate amounts of bombers going up, trying to hit the heartland of nazi germany and other industrial facilities throughout europe that the nazis were using. the reason that this is so problematic for us, if you think about it, for example, a b-17 bomber, which was the workhorse of the european bombing campaign, had a trained -- had trained personnel

across the northern border of sicily. combining with bernard montgomery, to push against the germans and the italian forces, eventually driving them off of the sicilian island, across the straits of sicily, into the southern boot of italy there. so you get a sense of the campaign and how it moved to this very rapid conclusion only 38 days after the landings here. we're now leaving the sicily gallery and entering the italian campaign here in the national world war ii museum. you can see on the map to my right the situation that the allies faced in september of 1943 as we begin the invasion of italy. now, the italian campaign had been urged by winston churchill, to be a soft underbelly of europe, that we could drive up the peninsula and possibly get at nazi germany and win the war. it's not going to turn out that way at all. instead, the italian campaign is going to be a long, bloody slog, and it starts from the very beginning. the allies are going to face great challenges with the amphibious landings that we must perform t

so sicily is the next stop on the road to berlin. we are now entering the sicily gallery here at the national world war ii museum. you can see at this map the initial landing where allied forces are going to drop parachutes and then also come in with amphibious landings in july 1943. sicily is going to prove to be a very quick campaign, all told. only 38 days long, but it was filled with a lot of drama. it included the rivalry between george patton and bernard montgomery, the british commander. however, something i wanted to point out that is of special significance, i think, in this gallery that we want visitors to understand is that war is a very messy, dirty, and often unfair business. and in those landings at sicily, we are going to see the worst friendly fire incident that american forces suffered in world war ii. better than 300 american paratroopers are going to be shot down by allied forces as they approach southern italy early in the invasion. this is something that came about because of inexperience and green troops and fea

, thell be sicily and italy idea that perhaps we could reach germany through a southern route. it does not quite turn out that way at all because italy turns into -- as we like to say, a long, bloody slog. that was the strategic factor involved. we do takeout hitler's ally, mussolini, through these actions. >> many historians had pointed out that had hitler not invaded haved, the situation could been very different, might have avoided world war ii. why did hitler feel compelled to invade poland? keith: hitler felt compelled to because hisd vision, what he wanted to do was to create a racially pure empire in eastern europe. he believed that 80 million germans needed living space in the east. he was going to go and invade the lands of eastern ultimately take over the ukraine and parts of the soviet union that had tremendous amounts of natural resources, but also were great for farmland. hitler had this idea that what he wanted to do was take over these lands, expand the german nation from 80 million to 250 million, basically use those people on the land for either slave labor or

we find some stress point in africa, and then sicily and italy. host: let me welcome our viewers and listeners, and remind them that they can send us a tweet. also, our phone lines are open. we are dividing them regionally. was the u.s. prepared for what happened in germany during the buildup of the arsenal? the warnings came from our allies, but was the u.s. repaired for what was going to happen? mr. huxen: no, the united states was not prepared for what was going to happen. we had had a bad experience with the first world war and its aftermath, and as a result, a lot of americans thought that we pacific and atlantic oceans that would naturally protect is at this time. we tried to stay out of war, passing a series of neutrality acts in the 1930's. we thought that the defense of democracies should really be up to britain and france. after all, germany was in their backyard. britain and france collaborated on a policy of appeasement in the 1930's, where the idea was that they felt guilty about the results of the versailles treaty and the end of wor

also we did speak to officials in sicily recently who said no, terrorists don't go on little dinghies and on seaworthy boats. they have other ways to travel. so this is possibly europeans' worst nightmare coming true. there were a number of arrests also recently in belgium. and authorities believe that three of the bombers may have come from one neighborhood in belgium, a neighborhood that's known to be radicalized. there has been one arrest in that neighborhood this evening. and finally, the hunt for accomplices of these eight bombers or eight attackers yesterday, seven of whom were suicide bombers goes on, there were six locations all together. four of the attackers died at the bataclan music venue. three died at the soccer stadium. so you've got to think, with six locations, eight bombers, three at one, four at fore, one in another location, there has to be some sort of network that was helping them out. it's not clear at this point what police are looking for in terms of that network, but they are certainly looking for people who may have helped or even possibly been involved in t

a piece of metal recovered from the sea off the isle of sicily may be from an american space rocket. this is reported to the u.k. coast guard and was recovered with the help of some local professional boat men. experts say it is similar to the unmanned spacex falcon 9 which you may recall blew up shortly after takeoff, that was back in june, though. >>> two men are dead after a pontoon boat flips over and sinks off the coast of new jersey. seven people were on board the boat near point pleasant beach. police believe that the strong currents are to blame. nearby boats and surfers rushed to help some3n of the victims fm the water before emergency responders were able to get there. the other five victims are expected to recover. >>> a fairfax county man facing multiple charges after police say he slammed into several cruisers on purpose. fairfax county police tried to pull over zoltan morgan yesterday but say he sped off. multiple police agencies got involved with the chase, lasted about a mile. in that time according to police he hit three cars including a state police trooper's vehicl

to sicily andrned was arousing huge monster they were chanting to march on rome. been the movement. garibaldi now wanted to go on and crossed the straits of mussina, picking up men along the way, the red shirts leading this mass of people. garibaldi confronted a regiment of italian soldiers to stop thising movement. they were afraid it would spark an international war. want garibaldi setting off this war and setting france against italy. these soldiers asked them to lay down their arms. garibaldi was expecting the soldiers to come and join him. , twort -- a shot was fired bullets hit him, one in the sky and one in the ankle. thought he was going to be tried for rebellious treason and executed. thousands of people began italy.ng in doctors are coming from all over europe because the wounded his ankle with not heal. this is a huge event. are depicting garibaldi with his wounded leg. they compared the festering wound with the stigmata and asigens were collect it relics by the people waiting outside the prison. obscure american german immigrant and she was given a post indiana. glory, h

we landedoblems when in north africa, sicily, africa, again and again. there was the question whether this strategy could work. as a result in this, stephen ambrose and his best friend dr. nick mueller decided that they andld, in honor of higgins the men who had landed at d-day, have the museum down here telling that story. that is how the museum began. host: you are watching american history tv on c-span3 as we commemorate the 73 anniversary of world war ii. keith huxon is joining us from new orleans. our next color is from wisconsin. frederick, go ahead. caller: i was wondering if you could comment on the critical role of the united states merchant marine during the war. host: absolutely. we opened the road to berlin galleries in december 2014, and we are about five weeks away from opening our road tokyo galleries in that building. if you go to our campus, we are also going to open a gallery dedicated to the merchant marine. the merchant marine were absolutely critical to world war ii. i will put it in a larger context because we talked about campaigns

left to mag a city in commonly -- manage a city in financial ruin >>> in the strong hold of sicily businessmen turned against some feared anningsters. in levels of cooperation with police, they provided details of extortion, leading to the arrest of 22 suspects. it's called the shopkeeper's re-voest. they were forced to pay between 1 and 5,000 a month. 36 victims are in protective custody. the chief joins us now. this level of corruption in rome is beyond anything i have seen anywhere. what kind of impact is this having in italy? >> enormous impact. it's the largest city, the capital city, the most beautiful in the world. >> the french may argue with that. >> it will become more popular because it's the disappear of the catholic church, and pope francis called for a jubilee, arting in dees, we'd have hundreds of thousands of visitors working. >> corruption does not help. i know this cm activity is referred to in italian law as mafioso. this is not the cammora of naples, but a hybrid of gangsters and politicians. >> exactly, a mafia that is trying to be respectable. >> they want to send money.

a piece of metal recovered from the sea off the isle of sicily may be from an american space rocket. this was reported to the u.k. coast guard and recovered with the help of a local professional boat man. experts say similar to the unmanned spacex falcon 9 which blew up shortly after takeoff from cape canaveral. >>> two men are dead after a poon toon boat flipped and sank off the coast of new jersey. seven people were aboard that boat. police believe strong currents are to blame. nearby boats and surfers rushed to help some of the victims before the water before emergency responders arrived. >>> a fairfax county maní@ faci multiple charges this morning after police say he slammed into several police cruisers on purpose. fairfax county police tried to pull over sul ton morgan for a traffic stop in springfield yesterday but say he sped off. they chased him in a mile. he is accused of hitting three police cars including a state trooper's vehicle. they finally caught up with morgan when he crashed into a fence right there, that was in alexandria. >>> talk about a brush with death, a con

my long-time producer sicily, we have never seen anything like this. a final note, french president hollande said this is isis. he said this is an act of war, the french, the world is waiting for the next step. >> live reporting there. more from matt thorn berry and mr. chairman, let me ask you about what this means for the refugee situation. the u.s. is expected to take in tens of thousands of refugees and we now know one of the perpetrators in the paris attack was in fact a refugee, isis fighter posing as a refugee. what do you think this means for the u.s.'s plan to take in refugees? >> we need to be careful about screening anyone that comes into our country and frankly, we don't have very good screening mechanisms to do that, so we really need to up our game on that front. it's interesting that this was a mixture of people who were there in the country and refugees, i think and remember the people who are there in the country with european passports can come to the united states without a visa. the idea this is something that could just be containe

we are told, our producer sicily who follows this stuff closely has heard that they will be able to make out something from these remains, certainly the d.n.a. for sure and other aspects of their bodies to try to track this down. let's look -- just run down the attack points. bataclan, the theater here where we are right now, it is on lockdown. we are behind a sacrum scrum of international media. i saw two soldiers outside of one cafe in the middle of nowhere so they are looking for any kind of soft points. any kind of vulnerabilities. a lot of soldiers marching in unison according to our producer phil who saw that at the airport. so, yes, security very high. as you have been noting there is a state of emergency. a state of high aalert here. francois hollande the president describing a merciless war he will be waging he met with his top security cabinet. his national defense council, the security council. he met with the defense ministers, interior ministers, heads of police to try to come up with a plan. and it is a plan to go for co-attackers who they feel could very well be out there

we had morocco, tunisia, sicily, italy, belgium, a huge area where we had burials. they exhumed 13 from the transatlantic theater and brought them to the u.s. cemetery at memorial in france. one was selected. they did the same. they brought four from the mckinley cemetery in the philippines and two from the cemetery of the pacific in hawaii. they chose one. those two, i cannot tell you which is which. it is a secret. this will be wrapped in sail eighted and buried at sea. this will come to the capitol rotunda. may 26, the ship, this is the uss canberra. walk these guys to the capitol rotunda and they are there for 48 hours. is --.these they switched in the middle of the night so each lay on it for twice for hours. i asked a bunch of eighth graders who this was. kids is said -- that is joe biden. oh, no. not quite. that is general eisenhower. honorbestowing medals of on the two unknowns. this is the samara money -- this is the ceremony. -- this is ike. the pentagon is right there. that is the face that got hit by flight 77 during 9/11. these guys will be buried here.

sicily. all the actors that you have heard of. >> when i saw the matinee it was largely an african american crowd and it was a very raucous almost like a call in response in a black church it reminded me. is that a distraction? >> no it's not comfortable. my character is not trying to be funny. she wins, and wins and wins, and they love it. back woman power -- whatever it -- but they get set off by that. they like to see someone having victory for a change. you know? >> i know from the past that you are a cable news junky. is that true. >> i get home, i turn on tv. there are a couple cables that i watch, including cnn. >> i know you do. obviously you are quite well aware of all of the things going on in our country and in our nation, specifically with race relations. i'm curious, given the fact that you started your career and were in the public eye during another pivotal time in our world t civil rights movement. >> i mentioned john jeanette play, the blacks. it became important only because

in sicily had not expected. two or three years ago people such right of euro it would not to write off europe because it would not work. but now we have with price pressers and are positive index rose to the highest reading it since may 2011. the survey voice to continued growth in the 19 nation euro area. things are like really good in germany. if they are good in germany they go well for the entire euro zone 's are not as bad as everyone had feared. demand from abroad is not as bad. by far the most pressing numbers in that survey are the french numbers which are already starting to show decline in restaurant and hotel's sense the attack. stephani eu qe is working? >> home run. it is working just like it worked in the u.s.. it affects the strongest part of the years on the fastest of the earliest, and in the biggest way. where did it hit the u.s., his san francisco and new york first. right to germany, took place that is not needed lisbon,s leaving rome, and athens behind. stephanie: this one is on the other ha

sicily who wants be with them? nobody. nobody. nobody will have him. so tomorrow when you go home, or tonight when you watch your broadcast you're going to hear about protests. you're going to hear there were protesters outside, i didn't see any, saw thousands, saw thousands of people trying to come in. that line, was four blocks long, five deep. but you are going to hear about protests and just remember what i said, it it is all a big lie. it is a big lie. it is a terrible, terrible lie. it is a terrible, terrible, lie. so i just want to close by saying, very shortly, you're fired. look, i have given up a lot to do this. i have given up a tremendous amount, i have given have given up a lot of deals, economics, shows, a lot of other things. what i want to say is, we are going to win if i get elected, we are going to win on trade, we are going to win with isis, and boy are we going to win with them and we are win with them and we are going to do it fast. [applause]. we are going to win with our military. we are going to take care of our veterans. we are

we are told, our producer sicily who follows this stuff closely has heard that they will be able to make out something from these remains, certainly the d.n.a. for sure and other aspects of their bodies to try to track this down. let's look -- just run down the attack points. bataclan, the theater here where we are right now, it is on lockdown. we are behind a sacrum scrum of international media. i saw two soldiers outside of one cafe in the middle of nowhere so they are looking for any kind of soft points. any kind of vulnerabilities. a lot of soldiers marching in unison according to our producer phil who saw that at the airport. so, yes, security very high. as you have been noting there is a state of emergency. a state of high aalert here. francois hollande the president describing a merciless war he will be waging he met with his top security cabinet. his national defense council, the security council. he met with the defense ministers, interior ministers, heads of police to try to come up with a plan. and it is a plan to go for co-attackers who they feel could very well be out there