House Naval Affairs Committee,Washington,DC,District of Columbia,1940

Title: Naval leaders ask Congress for more armament. Washington, D.C., Jan. 8. Photographed today at the initial meeting of the House Naval Affairs Committee are, left to right: Lewis Compton, Assistant to Secretary of the Navy Charles Edison, Secretary Edison, with Admiral Harold R. Stark, Chief of Naval Operations standing in rear. Following a brief statement by Secretary Edison, Admiral Stark urged the Committee to approve a bill by Chairman of the Committee Carl Vinson to give the Navy 25 percent more tonnage, 6,000 more planes at a cost of $1,300,000,000. Without such increase, he said, the U.S. will be 'relatively weak in naval power at the end of the year'
Creator(s): Harris & Ewing, photographer
Date Created/Published: [19]40 January 8.
Notes:
Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection.
Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955.
General information about the Harris & Ewing Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.hec
Temp. note: Batch five.
Subjects:
United States--District of Columbia--Washington (D.C.).
Glass negatives.
Bookmark /hec2009014647/
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