Which well get to later, i should mention, madison called it freedom of the use of the press and it is the freedom to print things and publish things, it is not a freedom for now what we refer to institutionally as the press. Lectures in history, on American History tv on cspan3 every saturday at 8 00 p. M. Eastern. Lectures in history is also available as a podcast. Find it where you listen to podcasts. My name is greg henesy. Im one of the people who give the school tours through the weeks, im in charge of the world war ii section. And this area, the world war ii section that we have set up, represents the type of buildings that we quickly put up at the start of world war ii, and the reason we to quickly put them up was because we were not prepared for war. The u. S. Milt had a less than 350,000 shoulders, that is army, navy and marines combined, no air force yet. They were part of the Army Air Corps. By the he said, we had 17 Million People in the service so we have to build Trainin
Training centers all over the country and expand what we had. We had to build Training Centers all of the country and these are the types of buildings that are represented. Now, if you notice this is a friend of mine. His name is richard. This is him in september of 1942, when he started his training in toccoa, georgia. Im wearing boots, coveralls, and overseas cap just the way they did to train. One reason they issued coveralls to train with was world war ii was truly a global war. We were fighting in the pacific in the islands, we were in africa, we were also in europe. So you were not quite sure where you are going to go. Therefore you were issued coveralls and when you were heading into combat zones, you would switch into the uniform that fit for that. So, fortunately this weekend, you see, just like the barracks would look like in world war ii when these guys were training. This is what they would have been doing if they were preparing to go out for dday, getting their gear, train
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