Aug 9, 1942 -Battle of Savo Island: Japanese force of seven cruisers and one destroyer (Vice Admiral Mikawa Gunichi) approaches west of Savo...
Welcome to the boards big. In response to your question I recently began re-reading Richard Franks book Downfall: The End of the Japanese...
[img] Found this article in the Chicago Tribune today... Closure, WW II sub found under the sea Family finally has place to put flowers By...
Aug 8, 1941 -Japanese Ambassador Nomura suggests conference between President Roosevelt and Japanese Prime Minister Konoye. Aug 8, 1942 -Marines...
First let me say, you have taken the words right out of my mouth. The only things missing that I would have to add is to not forgot the mass...
Aug 7, 1942 -Operation WATCHTOWER: 1st Marine Division (Major General Alexander A. Vandegrift, USMC) lands on Florida, Tulagi, Gavutu, Tanambogo,...
Aug 6, 1941 -Executive order transfers Coast Guard's Honolulu District from the Treasury Department to the Navy in the first step toward shifting...
Aug 5, 1941 -Heavy cruisers Northampton (CA-26) and Salt Lake City (CA-25) arrive at Brisbane, Australia, for a goodwill visit. Aug 5, 1942...
Aug 4, 1942 -Destroyer Tucker (DD-374), uninformed of its presence, is sunk in U.S. minefield laid the previous day by Gamble (DM-15), Breese...
Aug 3, 1942 -Light minelayers Gamble (DM-15), Breese (DM-18) and Tracy (DM-19) lay minefield off western entrance of Segond Channel, Espiritu...
Aug 2, 1942 -Lieutenant Commander Mildred H. McAfee, who received the first WAVES commission, becomes the first WAVES commandant. -Dutch...
Aug 1, 1940 -Navy establishes Alaskan Sector as a military command within the Thirteenth Naval District. Aug 1, 1941 -Naval Air Station, Midway...
RAMAGE, LAWSON PATERSON Rank and organization: Commander, U.S. Navy, U.S.S. Parche. Place and date: Pacific, 31 July 1944. Entered service at:...
July 31, 1941 -Economic Defense Board is created. -Japanese government assures U.S. government that the previous day's bombing of river gunboat...
July 30, 1941 -During Japanese bombing raid on Chungking, China, one bomb falls eight yards astern of river gunboat Tutuila (PR-4). While the bomb...
July 29, 1941 -Japanese occupy southern French Indochina with French permission. July 29, 1942 -PBYs (VP 23) bomb Japanese bases in...
What little I do know about the Dutch K-XIV class in particular started the war using a 21" torpedo that was a British design but after 1943...
July 28, 1941 -Japan freezes U.S. assets. July 28, 1943 -Japanese complete evacuation of Kiska Island, Aleutians (Vice Admiral Kawase Shiro),...
Sorry about the delays everyone, been having major computer problems here but I believe I have them all resolved now. July 27, 1942 -Army-Navy...
July 26, 1940 -President Roosevelt invokes Export Control Act and prohibits exportation, without license, of aviation gasoline and certain classes...
