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| World War II, U.S.
Government Transfers Japanese-Americans From West Coast To Inland Camps Japanese Force March ("Bataan Death March") Of American And Philippine Prisoners Major General Jimmy Doolittle Bombs Tokyo, Americans Defeat Japanese At Midway 400,00 American Troops Land In French North Africa Literature: Pulitzer Prize Poetry, Ellen Glasgow; "In This Our Life," Pulitzer Prize Novel; William Faulkner:"Go Down, Moses"; John Steinbeck: "The Moon Is Down"; Jean Anouilh: "Antigone"; Thornton Wilder: "The Skin Of Our Teeth"; Pulitzer Prize Drama; Erich Fromm: "The Fear Of Freedom"; Reichenbach: "Philosophic Foundations Of Quantum Mechanics" Films: "Bambi", "Mrs. Miniver", "Holiday Inn" Popular Songs: "Praise The Lord And Pass The Ammunition"; " Paper Doll"; "That Old Black Magic" Enrico Fermi (U.S.), Splits The Atom, The First Electronic Brain Or Automatic Computer Developed Magnetic Recording Tape Invented, Bell Aircraft Tests First U.S. Jetplane Henry J. Kaiser, Develops Techniques For Building 10,000 Ton Liberty Ships In Four Days "Stars And Stripes," A Daily Paper For U.S. Forces In Europe, Appears 487 Die In Fire at Coconut Grove Nightclub, Boston, Sugar, Gasoline, and Coffee Rationing Begins In U.S. Joe Lewis Retains Heavyweight Boxing Crown |
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