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JAPANESE AMERICAN VIOLATED MILITARY ORDER
San Leandro, California · May 30, 1942 On this date in California in 1942, California-born Japanese American Fred Korematsu was arrested for refusing to comply with President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066, which authorized the Secretary of War and his military commanders to require all Japanese Americans be removed from designated “military areas” and…
CHURCHILL-DE GAULLE MISSTEP ON D-DAY EVE
London, England · June 2, 1944 In June 1943 in Algeria, North Africa, the Free French founded the French Committee of National Liberation. Much political maneuvering was needed to merge the Free French, whose nucleus consisted of Frenchmen who had escaped German capture at Dunkirk (May 26 to June 4, 1940), with politicians and armed forces from…
JAPANESE TO BE MOVED FROM WEST COAST
Washington, D.C. · February 19, 1942 On this date in 1942 President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066. It authorized the War Department to designate “military areas” in the U.S. and exclude from them anyone whom the department felt to be a danger to the security of the nation. Although the order was carefully…
FRENCH COMMAND SOVIET PILOTS IN JOINT UNIT
Moscow, Soviet Union · April 15, 1943 On this date in 1943 Soviet Gen. Géorgui Zakharov placed a patrol of six Yak-7s with Soviet pilots under Free French command. The initial six French pilots formed a mixed patrol of six French and six Russian planes. The brainchild of Gen. Charles de Gaulle, leader of the…
OILFIELDS, STALINGRAD TARGETS IN SUMMER CAMPAIGN
Along the Eastern Front · June 28, 1942 On this date in 1942 on the Eastern Front, Adolf Hitler launched Germany’s second summer campaign against the Soviet Union in 2 years. (The first had been Operation Barbarossa begun the previous June, which had been intended to knock the Soviet Union out of the war in 1941.)…