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A young family in hiroshima trying to make sense of the tragedy. The cards have been winning a lot. Oh yeah, you are right. See, they have been winning the last three games. This time they won 124. Look, we are going to the ceremony today. You know . You mean people are already there and lining up . No, this is a picture of last years ceremony. It is amazing how even after the bomb was dropped, the hiroshima dome did not collapse. The night before august 6, the enemy planes were constantly flying over hiroshima. Around 7 30 the next morning, there was a siren indicating the planes had retreated from hiroshima. All the students and teachers started to go to school. At 8 05 the teachers gathered all the students together on the playground so we could start the morning meeting. I rang the bell, and the students started to line up in front of the podium. Today, we have this modern steel podium. But then, we only had a wooden one. And i would stand on this and say good morning and say a lit
Welcome everyone to the national were work to museum. When the warehoused in downtown new orleans. Here at the museum we have several different permanent exhibits. Were here in the roads to tokyo exhibit which is going to take us through the war of the pacific and asia through 1941 to 1945. This exhibit is a recreation of the uss enterprise. World war ii and air craft carrier. As you advance into the exhibit, you must start out on the ship and really get oriented what happened in the pacific. One of these things that we like to do is introduce our visitors to the main players. We have a lineup of four here. Japanese emperor eaten in, the man who was responsible for the war in the pacific. President of the united states, franklin del earner roosevelt. America can ally churchill. John kaishek the leader of the nationalist china chinese. John in the chinese fought a war on the japanese mylan. Very bloody and very protracted war. As we advance through the bridge of the uss enterprise, worl
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