20,000 tons of tnt. The japanese began the war from the air at pearl harbor. They were been repaid many fold and the end is not yet. With this bomb we have now added a new and revolutionary increase in destruction to supplement the growing power of our armed forces. In their present form these bombs are now in production, and even more powerful bombs are in development. It is an atomic bomb. It is a harnessing of a basic power of the universe, the force from which the sun draws its power has been loosed against those who brought war to the far east. We are now prepared to destroy more rapidly and completely every productive enterprise the japanese have in any city. We shall destroy their docks, their factories, and their communications. Let there be no mistake we shall completely destroy japans power to make war. It was to spaer the japanese people from utter destruction that the ultimatum of july 26th was issued at potstand. Their leaders rejected that ultimatum. If they do not accept
Training centers all over the country and expand what we had. We had to build Training Centers all of the country and these are the types of buildings that are represented. Now, if you notice this is a friend of mine. His name is richard. This is him in september of 1942, when he started his training in toccoa, georgia. Im wearing boots, coveralls, and overseas cap just the way they did to train. One reason they issued coveralls to train with was world war ii was truly a global war. We were fighting in the pacific in the islands, we were in africa, we were also in europe. So you were not quite sure where you are going to go. Therefore you were issued coveralls and when you were heading into combat zones, you would switch into the uniform that fit for that. So, fortunately this weekend, you see, just like the barracks would look like in world war ii when these guys were training. This is what they would have been doing if they were preparing to go out for dday, getting their gear, train
My name is greg hennessy. Im one of the people who gives the school tours, im in charge of the world war ii section. This area represents the type of buildings that we quickly put up at the start of world war ii. The reason why we had to quickly put them up was that we were not prepared for. The United States military had less than 350,000 soldiers at the outbreak of world war ii. Thats the army, navy and marine combined. No air force. By the end of the war we had about 17 Million People in service. To do that, we portraying centers all over the country to expand some of the force that we had. We had to build Training Centers all over the country and these are the types of buildings that are represented. If you notice, this is a friend of mine. His name is richard. This is him in september of 1942. He started his training in georgia. Im wearing boots, cover alice and a cap just the way they did to train. One of one reason they should cover off the train with was, world war ii was truly
The clerk en bloc number 6 consisting of amendments 7, ered 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 8 printed in part g of house report number 116438, offered by mr. Graves of missouri. The speaker pro tempore the question is on the amendment en bloc. Members will record their votes by electronic device. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc. , in cooperation with the United States house of representatives. Any use of the closedcaptioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u. S. House of epresentatives. ] the speaker pro tempore for what purpose does the gentleman from virginia seek recognition . Mr. Beyer as the member designated by ms. Moore pursuant to House Resolution 965 i inform the house that ms. Moore will vote yea on the amendment en bloc number six. As the member designated mr. Lowenthal pursuant to House Resolution 965, i inform the house, mr. Lowenthal will vote neigh on the amendment en bloc numb
The encouragement youve no doubt provided in helping him to get to this day. Our goal in conducting the hearing is to enable the committee to have a thoughtful consideration of the calls to be the next Inspector General of the cia. He is provided and written responses and this morning members will be able to ask any additional questions and hear the answer directly from the nominee. He spent 23 years as a federal prosecutor in the department of justice and assistant u. S. Attorney for the Eastern District of louisiana. The width of the National Security agency since 2011 hes been in a privat private practiw orleans where he has done dozens of trials that the federal and state level and litigated at the appellate level. In addition spent 20 years as an uncompensated adjunct professor at the Tulane Law School giving back to his alma mater in. The office responsible for independent oversight if confirmed he will conduct audit inspections and reviews of the programs and operations and play