5/9/2021: Ingenuity and Perseverance, The Ritchie Boys
60 Minutes
CBS News
3.8 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2021
⏱️ 42 minutes
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On this week's "60 Minutes," Anderson Cooper goes inside the dramatic missions to Mars by the tiny helicopter Ingenuity and the rover Perseverance. He reports that NASA's dramatic landing on the Red Planet in February wasn't as smooth as it may have seemed to people watching at home. In a two-part report, Jon Wertheim story of the "Ritchie Boys," a group who used their knowledge of German language and culture to gather more than half the combat intelligence on the Western Front.
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| 0:00.0 | Nine years of work, seven minutes of terror. |
| 0:09.6 | He's talking about the recent descent and landing of the perseverance rover on Mars. |
| 0:14.9 | Execute entry descent and landing on her own. |
| 0:17.9 | And there goes the descent stage. |
| 0:19.6 | Big sigh of relief. |
| 0:20.7 | I almost collapsed over this console. |
| 0:22.6 | Part of its mission to drop off ingenuity, a mini helicopter that would take off and navigate |
| 0:27.6 | in the Martian atmosphere, much to NASA's delight. |
| 0:35.6 | Think you know all about World War II's greatest heroes? |
| 0:39.2 | Think again. |
| 0:41.1 | Tonight, you'll meet three surviving members of a secret group called The Richie Boys, |
| 0:46.5 | 11,000 American soldiers, many of them Jews who had fled Nazi Germany, |
| 0:51.7 | and were trained in espionage and psychological warfare. |
| 0:55.5 | How effective were they at gathering intelligence? |
| 0:58.0 | They were incredibly effective. |
| 1:00.5 | 60 plus percent of the actionable intelligence gathered on the battlefield was gathered by Richie Boys. |
| 1:08.7 | They made a massive contribution to essentially every battle that the Americans fought the entire sets of battles on the Western Front. |
| 1:19.9 | I'm Leslie Stahl. |
| 1:21.8 | I'm Bill Whitaker. |
| 1:23.0 | I'm Anderson Cooper. |
| 1:24.3 | I'm John Worthy. |
| 1:25.4 | I'm Scott Pelly. |
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