Nimitz Heads Pacific Fleet Shakeup in Pearl Harbor Aftermath
Navy and Army removed key commanders in Hawaii after Pearl Harbor. Kimmel, Short, and Mar tin replaced. Emmons and Tinker named to lead air defenses. Roosevelt ordered investigation into alert lapses while Japan continued bombing Philippine fields and a broader war front shifted with Timor occupation and Allied coordination talks.
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Roosevelt
Pearl Harbor
Navy
War Departments
Kimmel
Army
Walter C. Short
Hawaiian Military Department
Frederick L. Martin
Hawaaii
Delos C. Emmons
Air
Air Combat Force
Honolulu
Short
C. L. Tinker
Air Corps
Air Command
Emmons
Frank M. Andrews
Caribbean
Stimson
Knox
United States
Japan
War
Navy Department
Manila
Nichols
Zablan
Krian River
Kedah
Penang
Singapore
Tokyo
Tojo
London
Netherlands
Timor
Java
Australia
Siberia
Manchukuo
Global war aims and looming axis strategies across fronts
The article explains the interconnected Axis setbacks across Europe Africa and Asia and the US commitment to continued lend lease. It outlines three strategic aims including holding the Philippines expanding munition production and destroying Japan's navy while considering potential future Axis moves through Turkey toward Iran and Iraq or into Spain Portugal and Atlantic operations. It also notes rising U S passenger car registrations since 1935 driven by lower income households.
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Africa
Europe
Asia
Roosevelt
Stimson
Pearl Harbor
America
United States
British Isles
North Africa
Hitler
Russia
Turkey
Near East
Iran
Iraq
North
Spain
Portugal
Atlantic
United States Navy
Britain
Swiss Envoys Move Toward U S Exchange in Law Basis
The United States outlines grouping axis diplomats for exchange under reciprocity. Nomura and staff confined to embassy premises while Japanese consuls in America are to be housed in a hotel. The Romanian charge d affaires Brutus Coste and attaches will also be housed elsewhere. Axis correspondents held in custody are to be kept in hotels pending repatriation. Italian and Bulgarian diplomats not mentioned.
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Kichisaburo Nomura
Brutus Coste
Legation
State Department
Roland B. Wall Seeks Senate Seat in New Orleans
Roland B. Wall former WPA administrator for Mississippi and foe of Senator Bilbo resigns as assistant regional director of the WPA to run for the United States Senate next year. He aims for the seat held by Wall Doxey, who won the unexpired term of the late Senator Pat Harrison. The report also notes a separate remark from the International Game Fish Association about women and bragging about catches.
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New Orleans
Roland B. Wall
WPA
Mississippi
Theodore Bilbo
United States Senate
Wall Doxey
Pat Harrison
Dredge Finds Bar of Cut Silver Half Dollars Near Montana City
A Helena mining dredge uncovered about 40 silver United States half dollars near Montana City. The coins were cut wedge shaped like pie slices and buried roughly 30 feet underground. Prospectors are puzzled by their appearance and purpose.
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Helena
Mont
Montana City
United States
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Sharpy
Nimitz
Pacific Fleet
Pepper
Florida
Far East
Congress
Great Britain
Henderson
South Pacific
Office of Production Management
Conference of Labor and Management
Pan-American Union
Rio de Janeiro
SCOOP
Ilverstein
DeSiard St
Silverstein
Silverstein’s
Philippines
U. S
Senate
International Game Fish Association
Delta
Shreveport
Jackson
Dallas
Atlanta
Savannah
Bond
Old Schenley
Bond Old Schenley
Rhum Negrita
OG Rerieas Michlest
Schenley Distillers Corporation
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