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
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
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
With combatexperienced divisions in north africa, the junglecovered islands of the pacific, the aleutians, where they had wiped out the japanese on attu. Now, the bloodied veterans of the north African Campaign had landed on sicily in a drive for the italian mainland. Millions more were training in the united states. We were well on the road to the ultimate victory. [rousing music] in 1940, our army numbered a little more than a quarter of a million men. Three years later in 1943, it numbered almost 7 million and would continue to grow grow to 8 million. But numbers alone do not make an efficient fighting force capable of winning the final victory. An undisciplined and unequipped rabble, even though the cause be war against the trained and well disciplined, well armed, and well led force. To the intensive training soldiers hadican never been as well trained and equipped to fight as were our soldiers in world war ii. The northns of African Campaign learned intensive training pays off. N