1941 to 1945. Weve designed this exhibit as a recreation of the bridge of the uss enterprise, a world war ii Aircraft Carrier in the u. S. Navy. As you advance into the exhibit you will start out on the ship an get yourself oriented to the war in the pacific. One of the things we like to do is introduce our visitors to the main players. We have a line up of four of them here. We have the japanese emperor, a man who in many ways was responsible for the war in the pacific. We have the president of the i need, franklin roosevelt. Our british ally Winston Churchhill and a man who has become the forgotten character of world war ii, the leader of the nationalist chinese. We fought a war in the pacific, chung fought a war on the asian mainland. Very bloody and protracted war. As we advance through the bridge of t of the uss enterprise, we will go into our next gallery for what life was like for the crewmen on the ships. This is what your quarters would look like. This was stripped to the bone
Watch American History tv this weekend on cspan3. Welcome, everyone, to the National World war ii museum. Here at the museum we have several different permanent exhibits and were here today on the road to tokyo exhibit which is going to take us through the war in the pacific and asia from 1941 to 1945. Weve designed this exhibit as a recreation of the bridge of the uss enterprise, a world war ii aircraft carrier. As you advance into the exhibit, youre going to start on the ship and get yourself oriented to the war in the pacific. One of the things we like to do is introduce our visitors to the main players. We have a lineup of four of them here, we have the japanese emperor, the man who is responsible for the war in the pacific, the president of the United States Franklin Dell noer roosevelt and the leader of the nationalist chinese. We fought a war in the pacific. They found a war on the asia mainland. Very bloody war. As we advance through the bridge of the uss enterprise, this is wh
Cspan is at the National World War Ii Museum that opened in 2000. Today, we will be visiting the road to tokyo exhibit that does the American Experience in the pacific theater. Lockout, everyone, to the National World War Ii Museum in downtown new orleans. We have several different permanent exhibits. We are at the road to tokyo exhibit that will take us through the war in the pacific and asia from 1941 to 1945. We designed this exhibit is every creation of the bridge of the uss enterprise, the world war ii Aircraft Carrier in the u. S. Navy. As you enter the exhibit, you enter the ship and get yourself oriented to the war in the pacific. We try to introduce our visitors to the players. You have here we go you have hirohito who started this. And we have the leader of the nationalist chinese. As we advance through the bridge of the uss enterprise, this is where the command elements will be. The will go to the next gallery and get a better look at what life was like for the crewmen aboar
In the pacific. Welcome to washington journal. Washington journal on the 75th anniversary. Guest thank you. I am glad to be here. Host we have heard from harry truman after the hiroshima bombing. From your research and the study of the war and the bombings in particular, why did harry truman do it . I think the decision to use the bomb was really implicit in the manhattan project, so it was really assumed from the time, for the time truman came to office in ,pril after the death of fdr that this weapon, if it worked, it would be used. So it may be more accurate to say that there was a nondecision essentially. Truman did not decide to projecte, to stop a that was very much entrained when he came into office. The assumption had been made that if we had built the bomb, if we had the bomb, we would use the bomb in order to bring the war to an end, but i think from the perspective we have now that the atomic bomb, you know, is different, essentially different, from general weapon, that is s
The eventsmore on that led to the bombings when we talk president Harry Trumans grandson, Clifton Truman daniel. 75 years ago today, the uso and the Nuclear Weapons bureau. Gay,ed from the b29 enola the bomb called little boy would explode with an impact of 15 kilotons and be responsible for the death of 237,000 people. That and the bombing of nagasaki on august 9 would propel japan to surrender and the end of world war ii. Good morning. It is washington journal for this thursday, august 6, 20 20. We are going to spend the entire program on the 75th anniversary of the bombings of hiroshima and nagasaki and the end of world war ii. Would like to hear from you. Your thoughts on the decision to use the abomb, the end of the war and hiroshimas legacy. Zones, and central time 2027488000. Mountain and pacific 2027488001. World war ii veterans and their families 2027488002. Japaneseamericans, 2027488003. That line also available for your texts. Make sure you tell us where you are texting from