Draft Speech of Senator Harry S. Truman at the Launching of the USS Missouri at Brooklyn, New York
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OCR Page 1 of 5FOR SENATOR TRUMAN
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ON: LAUNCHING OF THE BATTLESHIP "MISSOURI"
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The launching of the battleship "MISSOURI" is an event of
great personal and national significance. It is natural that I am
deeply aware of the honor which has been bestowed upon the State
this
I United States Senate in the naming of ( efficient unit of
serve in the
American naval power the It is of équal import to me --
and to all my fellow countrymen that this newest of battleships is
the symbol of the overmastering naval might of the United States and of
the United Nations.
naval
In 1943, approximately 3,500 new ( vessels of all types were
placed in commission. That is: in about 11 months a greater number
of combat ships were built than the U. S. Navy possessed on January 1, x9k
1943. We have made good all our losses in all classes of fighting ships.
What is more, we have the personnel to man this tremendous Fleet which
is seeing action today on every ocean.
American war vessels have contributed to the effectiveness of
the Anglo-American blockade of Germany 11 German blockade-runners,
8. majority of those attempting to break through the Allied naval ring
of steel, have been sent to the bottom together with their cargo) ES of
between September 1942andiluns/943
strategic materials so vital for the enemy war effort.
While the United States was launching such powerful battleships
as
the
"WISCONSIN" and the "MISSOURI", Germany suffered the loss of her
only seaworthy battleship, the "SCHARNHORST".
In the field of anti-submarine warfare, we might well call the
naval administation
year just completed "the Doenitz year", since, during the ( conrosol
of
Admiral Doenitz, Germany has been forced to endure her most disastrous
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