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By zhensley30

  • War Production Board

    War Production Board
    President Franklin D. Roosevelt creates the War Production Board (WPB) to mobilize American businesses for the war effort.

  • Manhattan poject organized

    Manhattan poject organized
    Col. Marshall of the Army Corps of Engineers creates a new District organization with the intentionally misleading name "Manhattan Engineer District" (MED).

  • Japanese bomb Oregon forests

    Japanese bomb Oregon forests
    An aircraft launched from a Japanese submarine drops fire bombs on forests near Brookings, Oregon, in the first bombing of the continental U.S.

  • Groves buys 1250

    Groves buys 1250
    General Leslie Groves buys 1250 tons of high quality Belgian Congo uranium ore stored on Staten Island.

  • First controlled reaction

    First controlled reaction
    First controlled nuclear fission reaction is produced by Enrico Fermi at the University of Chicago.

  • U.S. repairs sunken war ships

    U.S. repairs sunken war ships
    The U.S. Navy announces that, except for the U.S.S. Arizona, U.S.S. Utah, and U.S.S. Oklahoma, all warships sunk at Pearl Harbor have been repaired and returned to sea.

  • Command of PT Boat

    Command of PT Boat
    After an eight-week training course in Rhode Island, Kennedy is assigned to take command of a patrol boat stationed in the South Pacific. He sails west from San Francisco, but does not arrive at his final destination—the Solomon Islands—for another month and a half.