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1942Richard Myers, American general[â ]
Richard Bowman "Dick" Myers is a retired United States Air Force general who served as the 15th chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. As chairman, Myers was the highest ranking uniformed officer of the United States military forces. He also served as the 14th president of Kansas State University from 2016 to 2022.
1942George S. Rentz, American commander (born 1882)[â ]
George Snavely Rentz was a United States Navy chaplain who served during World War I and World War II. For selfless heroism following the loss of USS Houston (CA-30) in the Battle of Sunda Strait, he was posthumously awarded the Navy Crossâ the only Navy Chaplain to be so honored during World War II.
1942World War II: Japanese forces land on Java, the main island of the Dutch East Indies, at Merak and Banten Bay (Banten), Eretan Wetan (Indramayu) and Kragan (Rembang).[â ]
The Empire of Japan, also known as the Japanese Empire or Imperial Japan, was the Japanese nation state that existed from the Meiji Restoration on January 3, 1868, until the Constitution of Japan took effect on May 3, 1947. From August 1910 to September 1945, it included the Japanese archipelago, the Kurils, Karafuto, Korea, and Taiwan. The South Seas Mandate and concessions such as the Kwantung Leased Territory were de jure not internal parts of the empire but dependent territories. In the closing stages of World War II, with Japan defeated alongside the rest of the Axis powers, the formalized surrender was issued on September 2, 1945, in compliance with the Potsdam Declaration of the Allies, and the empire's territory subsequently shrunk to cover only the Japanese archipelago resembling modern Japan.
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The stock market took another turn for the better yesterday both in prices and volume with the railroad issues again assuming the leadership. Trading was the largest of the month for a two-hour session as transfers on the Stock Exchange rose to 234,460 shares from 213,990 on the preceding Saturday.
Camp Shows entertainments discussed
PEARL HARBOR, Feb. 28 -- The Pacific Fleet authorities today released the first details on the experiences of American submarines on offensive forays into the far Pacific. The fleet's press release said:
Although the Japanese have overrun the rich tin-bearing areas of Malaya and the Netherlands East Indies, the position of the United Nations with respect to tin for essential military purposes remains less serious than generally had been contemplated.
HAVANA, Feb. 2B -- A three-run outburst in the seventh inning, staged by Leo Durocher's second-stringers, broke a deadlock and gave the Dodgers a 6-3 victory in the opening exhibition against Mel Ott's Giants in Tropical Stadium today before a crowd of 6,000 Cuban fans.
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. -- United States Army officials today definitely squelched rumors that the military planned to "take over" the resort city of Miami Beach.
FALCONER, N.Y., Feb. 28 -- Presiding Justice Harley N. Crosby of the Fourth Department, Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, and Mrs. Crosby of Falconer have announced the engagement of their daughter, Miss Barbara Crosby, to Corporal Nicholas G. Chaltas, U.S.A., son of George Chaltas of New Haven, Conn., and nephew of Mr. and Mrs. George E. Phillies of Buffalo, with whom he makes his home.
Rear Adm Kimmel and Lt Gen Short to be tried by cts-martial for Hawaii disaster
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Navy Relief Soc: benefit show plans, Madison Sq Garden, N Y C