In 1942, the U.S. Navy defeated the Japanese Navy in the Battle of Midway, a turning point of the war in the Pacific, while in Germany, Nazi officials met to plan the “Final Solution” and Anne Frank’s family went into hiding. As FDR ordered Japanese Americans into wartime incarceration camps, false reports of a Japanese attack set California skies ablaze with anti-aircraft fire in the “Battle of Los Angeles.” Americans supported the war effort with scrap drives and victory gardens.
American infantrymen and dogs of the K-9 Corps are ferried across one of the numerous river crossings as the Mars Task Force pushes into Burma, 1944. (Photo by Bettmann Archive/Getty Images)
Newly arrived Japanese evacuees line up outside a mess hall at the Tanforan Assembly Center, in San Bruno, CA, April 29, 1942. War Relocation Authority. (Photo by Dorothea Lange/Interim Archives/Getty Images)
In this clip from This Day In History, we go back to look at some things that have happened around us on the day of June 4th. From Oxford vs. Cambridge in a game of cricket, to the battle at Midway in 1942. See it all here in this amazing clip about June 4th.
Anne Frank
Dr. George Washington Carver with Henry Ford after being presented with a modern, fully equiped laboratory for food research, a gift from Mr. Ford.
Stalin’s rapid industrialization, agrarian reforms and series of purges led to the death and imprisonment of millions of Soviet citizens. He successfully led the USSR through World War II and oversaw the communization of Eastern Europe, which would lead to the Cold War.
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