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President Franklin D. Roosevelt creates the War Production Board (WPB) to mobilize American businesses for the war effort.
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Col. Marshall of the Army Corps of Engineers creates a new District organization with the intentionally misleading name "Manhattan Engineer District" (MED).
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An aircraft launched from a Japanese submarine drops fire bombs on forests near Brookings, Oregon, in the first bombing of the continental U.S.
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General Leslie Groves buys 1250 tons of high quality Belgian Congo uranium ore stored on Staten Island.
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First controlled nuclear fission reaction is produced by Enrico Fermi at the University of Chicago.
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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.
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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.
