I will welcome craig to introduce the next panel. Good morning. My name is craig horn. This morning, we will begin an adventure so when we look back we can see further ahead. Its often been said ignorance of the past can create irresponsibility in the present. Its my pleasure to introduce richard b. Frank, an internationally historian of the Asian Pacific world war. He was consultant for the hbo World War Ii Special on the pacific. In that he wrote, and i quote, the pacific war will inspire a long overdue reawakening of the strategic importance, sheer scale and unsurpassed savagetry of the wars unleashed by japan. The battle of midway was the turning of the tide. Please welcome, mr. Richard b. Frank. [ applause ] thank you very much. Thank you for those kind remarks. Were here in the 75th anniversary of the battle of midway. It is a perennial list of the most important battle for world war ii. Often cited as the single most important naval battle in the United States naval history. Its
President trump doesnt rule out military action against pyongyang. Hopefully we dont have to use it against north korea if we do use it on north korea it will be a sad day for north korea. Good morning its friday, unfortunately were dealing with a lot of national catastrophes on this morning mexicos been struck by a strong earthquake the 8. 1 magnitude quake was felt in the capital city forcing people to evacuate shaking buildings. At least five people have died the epicenter is located off the west coast of mexico with tsunami Warnings Issued along the coast of mexico and other Central American shores. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said tsunami waves have been observed. We are joined by Frank Jack Daniel can you tell me what you have observed the quake struck here before midnight it wuas felt strongly i mexico city. It shook me and me family out of bed. The same for millions of other people in the city who took to the streets very quickly and stayed there until the tremors were o
September 6, we will welcome dr. Josh goodman, the curriculum coordinator here at the museum. He will be talking about victory on the menu, dining out in world war ii and how rationing change the way that norland and new orleans eight. November 20 is james lynn, he will be talking about the new special exhibit, pelican state goes to war. It is currently on view upstairs if you have not seen it yet, i highly recommend it. Marks the 75th anniversary of the start of the battle of guadalcanal. Today we are happy to welcome captain rick jacobs. He was in the navy reserve for 26 years. He is a graduate of the naval war college. We know him but ill know him well, he has given over 30 talks at the museum. He is our local mable war expert, we like to call him. Please welcome captain rick jacobs. [applause] captain thank you. Cruiser ussheavy quincy in the searchlights of a japanese cruiser up guadalcanal early in the mid watch on august 9, 1942. Quincy was in the far pacific guarding the invasi
U. S. And japanese navies. Leading off is a review of the war in pacific prior to june 1942 then new information about the japanese at the battle. This is live coverage on cspan3. We are pleased and very very proud to be hosting it. I would like to thank our partners that helped put this together. The Hampton Roads Naval Historical Foundation and world war i and world war ii come mem ri commemoration. We couldnt have done it without you. [ cheers and applause ] now, before we get going i do have housekeeping items to pass along. First of all, turn off or silence your cell phones. Keep your programs. We have something of a limited supply of those and please wear your fwbadges throughout the da. Keep in mind we are on cspan so during the q and a use the microphone deployed here on the square. At this time i would like to bring forward my counter part john pentanjelo who will make some remarks, john. [ applause ] thanks, chris. Good morning and welcome. The Hampton Roads naval hue see yum
And hank kudzik, also a navy veteran, make up the panel. I cant tell you how excited i am to be here today. Thank you, wes, and jim, and the American Veterans center. Ive been here all day yesterday. I was at the Wounded Warrior experience. Its tremendous to read about history. As we heard from general richie yesterday, its more important that were hearing it from those that participated in history. And we get to hear it from some phenomenal and amazing men and women that weve heard from the last couple of days. The mofford marines, i never heard that story before but ill be reading more, how can you not be interested after that . What i thought i would do is just give you a brief overview on the battle of midway. But really keep my portion short, because i think we all want to hear from these three gentlemen that were there. And the can offer much more information than what i can give you. But i will say, in the last five to ten years, were very fortunate, some fantastic books have be