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
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
Batt battle. This talk was part of a day long symposium to mark the battles 75th anniversary. It is about 45 minutes. Were going to kick off our Afternoon Program with a little bit different perspective than some of the things weve been hearing about this morning. We talked a lot this morning about midway from a u. S. Per spect i. Although walt did some talk about the japanese thinking that led them to midway. But we are going to build on that and go a little bit deeper out of the japanese side, specifically the japanese combined fleet and their perspectives because in many ways they are as central to the action. A noted expert on the japanese navy. Hes written numerous publications on various aspects of the naval war in the pacific and should provide illuminating perspective today. Without further adieu, anthony tulley. Thank you all. Thank you for putting this on. Thank you all for coming. Okay. What i would like to do testing. Okay. What i would like to do is i would like to segue i
Batt battle. This talk was part of a day long symposium to mark the battles 75th anniversary. It is about 45 minutes. Were going to kick off our Afternoon Program with a little bit different perspective than some of the things weve been hearing about this morning. We talked a lot this morning about midway from a u. S. Per spect i. Although walt did some talk about the japanese thinking that led them to midway. But we are going to build on that and go a little bit deeper out of the japanese side, specifically the japanese combined fleet and their perspectives because in many ways they are as central to the action. A noted expert on the japanese navy. Hes written numerous publications on various aspects of the naval war in the pacific and should provide illuminating perspective today. Without further adieu, anthony tulley. Thank you all. Thank you for putting this on. Thank you all for coming. Okay. What i would like to do testing. Okay. What i would like to do is i would like to segue i
Batt battle. This talk was part of a day long symposium to mark the battles 75th anniversary. It is about 45 minutes. Were going to kick off our Afternoon Program with a little bit different perspective than some of the things weve been hearing about this morning. We talked a lot this morning about midway from a u. S. Per spect i. Although walt did some talk about the japanese thinking that led them to midway. But we are going to build on that and go a little bit deeper out of the japanese side, specifically the japanese combined fleet and their perspectives because in many ways they are as central to the action. A noted expert on the japanese navy. Hes written numerous publications on various aspects of the naval war in the pacific and should provide illuminating perspective today. Without further adieu, anthony tulley. Thank you all. Thank you for putting this on. Thank you all for coming. Okay. What i would like to do testing. Okay. What i would like to do is i would like to segue i