Decade - 1940s

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What did teens of the 80's ... do? As a teen from the 80's I went to school, played sports, listened to music, wrote, watched movies.. when we could. My weekends often were spent at a friends house, riding bikes, skiing, walking in the woods depending upon the season. Work was mostly summers only for most of us. Some of my friends grew up on ranches so chores were part of everyday. What didnt I answer?

Jim Tobin hit 3 on May 13, 1942, BUT it was against the Cubs, not the Dodgers. Boston Braves ace Jim Tobin became the only Major League pitcher ever to hit three successive home runs during a May 13, 1942, 6-5 victory over the Chicago Cubs. In 1940, Tobin joined the Boston Braves, where manager Casey Stengel made him a relief pitcher. On May 13, 1942, by then a starter, Tobin became the only pitcher in modern major-league history to hit three home runs in one game (Guy Hecker hit three homers in a game in the nineteenth century).

There is a map here of occupied France. The yellow part of the map is the Vichy area. http://www.oradour.info/appendix/francez1.htm

It's a better "fighter-bomber", that's why it was still in production into the 1950's and for the Korean War (1950-1953). Can carry more ordnance, probably further. The Corsair was like the Mustang...men liked 'em, and many became racers at the Reno air races in Nevada when the military sold them in the 1950's & '60s.

The F6F Hellcat was a completely different animal. The Hellcat was born and bred to kill the Japanese A6M Zero. The Grumman manufacturing company acquired a fully intact Japanese Zero from the Aleution Islands in 1942 (the pilot had crashed landed and died; the craft was discovered up-side down on a rough airfield). The 'Zeke" (Zero) was disassembled and transported to San Diego California where it was STUDIED; REASSEMBLED; then TEST FLOWN by US pilots. The A6M's weak spots and strong points were analyzed, digested, and then from there the "Zero Killer" was designed. The F6F had the highest kill rate against the Zeke than any other allied fighter during the war.

With the war ending, and the Zeke's shot from the skies, the Hellcat had no purpose to live anymore; it's reason to exist was gone. So it died too.

Most were shot down as target drones; some turned into missiles; and many were tossed overboard from their carriers on their return trips home (operation magic carpet, to make room for men coming home).

The Young Forty Niners radio show definitely aired in the early 1930s. When I was a pre-schooler, I remember my mother ordering a Young Forty Niner cut out set that included covered wagons, figures of people and animals that made the trek to the gold fields of California. Although I am almost 82 years old, I can still remember her setting up the cutouts on the dining room table.

It was were basically all the Transylvanian Saxons ( the Germans ) lived in. :D

During World War II, it is not in fact accurate to claim that France invaded Germany from the south. Neither during the first year of the war (in 1939-40) nor during 1944, when a mixed force of Allied troops (including French divisions) landed on the southern coast of France and pushed north against German defenders, did France actually invade Germany. As part of Allied (in fact, American) armies, French troops did participate actively in the offensives into Germany that occurred at the southern edge of the Western Front in 1945.

Caliber (for artillery) is the ratio of the barrel length to the bore diameter. So a 50 caliber 16" gun (Iowa-class) is longer than a 45 caliber gun (North Carolina-class), which gives a higher muzzle velocity, and therefore greater range and penetration.

Many men did, but obviously not all men did. It was a very popular thing to wear hats during this time period.

The M1 Garand, Thompson M1A1, Browning Automatic Rifle (B.A.R), and many of the main infantry weapons the U.S. used during World War II.

The Japanese also used the majority of small arms they used throughout the war.For example, the Arisaka rifle, the Nambu pistol and the the Type 96 machine gun.

The national park service decided to spend 87 million dollars to cover up thousands of tiny holes made made by the salty see air.

In the U.S. as early as 1972, a craft union (the cordwainers/shoemakers) in Philidelphia met to discuss the work issues of pay, hours, conditions, and job security. From the 7th edition of "Understanding Business" by Nickels, McHugh, McHugh

One list is at www.btinternet.com/~lee_mail/rafcodes.html

Franklin D. Roosevelt, until his death on 4/12/1945. His Vice President, Truman, took office for the short-remainder of the conflict.

I don't know about Alabama exactly but I do know that some schools were closed due to the war.

DIEPPE WAS A FRENCH SEA PORT. DURING THE WAR WW2 CANADIANS WERE

SENT ON A RAID ON THE PORT.IT WAS A FAILURE THAT COST MANY CANADIAN

LIVES. WHAT THE ALLIES LEARNED FROM THAT RAID SAVED MANY LIVES WHEN

SICILY AND D DAY INVASIONS TOOK PLACE. NO ONE THERE HAD THE TIME TO TEACH

ANYTHING. ROD.

Very true about the 1942 landing but only from what I have read. I'm an American who had relatives who fought in WW2 and I was brought up on alot of their stories and recollections. I remember my grandfather (6th army), who was in the Normandy landings, telling me about meeting up with french soldiers in Dec, 1944 at Strasbourg - a juncture from their south push from the french riviera landings (operation Dragoon). They were of the french first army, and the bunch of soldiers they shared a meal with had also fought in Italian campaign in the french corps. they spoke about the giant moari soldiers, who fought tenaciously and were full of humour, song and fun, who showed them an unusual very fast and physical ball game played with a pronounced target.

The french soldiers knew the seine-maritime area very well, north of where my grandfather landed at Utah beach, it was where they were born, and that he was very clear on. I have seen some maps of the towns he mentioned, and they are not dieppe but in the same region. Perhaps it was these very same men who returned to their homeland, which would make my grandfather very happy that they survived, like he did to finally cross the Rhine and scrap it out on German soil.

I know that game is called ki-o-rahi but it may have a french name also? I do not know? The game is played in some of our elementary schools.

They were tough.

In the 1920s and 1930s it was Harlem, New York City.

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Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin.

None. The Harvard Mark 1 ASCC (IBM Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator) was an electromechanical computer built for Harvard by IBM's Endicott NY facility in 1944. It was constructed from 765,000 components which included switches, relays, motors, rotating shafts, and clutches. It contained no vacuum tubes.

The Harvard Mark III ADEC (Aiken Dahlgren Electronic Calculator) was the first computer to use vacuum tubes. It was built at Harvard in 1949 using 5000 vacuum tubes and 1500 crystal diodes, along with electromechanical components. The Harvard Mark IV, built in 1952, was the first fully electronic design.

Using the A-Bomb.

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August 17th is when Indonesia proclaim it's independence from all foreign occupation, being Japanese or Dutch or quite possibly, the Allies that just won the war and is on Philippines at that very moment. But international communities only acknowledged Indonesia's Independence somewhere around 1949, which most Indonesian didn't regard as sacred as August 17th, The Independence Day.