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Vor 3 Tagen · On January 16, 1941, Secretary of the Army Henry L. Stimson gave the go-ahead for a “Negro pursuit squadron” of pilots who would be trained in Tuskegee, Alabama. According to the National WWII Museum , Tuskegee was selected because of its location, which had good weather for flying, and because the Tuskegee Institute was already training Black civilian pilots.
Vor 3 Tagen · He created a Top Policy Group consisting of himself—although he never attended a meeting—Wallace, Bush, Conant, Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, and the Chief of Staff of the Army, General George C. Marshall. Roosevelt chose the Army to run the project rather than the Navy, because the Army had more experience with management of large ...
Vor 22 Stunden · Frank Knox, the 1936 Republican vice presidential nominee, became Secretary of the Navy while former Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson became Secretary of War. Roosevelt began convening a "war cabinet" consisting of Hull, Stimson, Knox, Chief of Naval Operations Harold Rainsford Stark, and Army Chief of Staff George Marshall.
Vor einem Tag · On June 14, 1945, Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson decided that Patton would not be sent to the Pacific but would return to Europe in an occupation army assignment. Patton made a final stop in Washington, D.C., before returning to Europe in July to serve in the occupation forces.
Vor 22 Stunden · Both Afghanistan and Gaza have experienced sharp declines in the well-being of women and girls as a result of chronic conflict. In Afghanistan, before the Taliban’s return to power in 2021, there was significant, if fragile, progress. According to UNICEF, female literacy rates were about 30% in 2018.
Vor einem Tag · North Korea Claims “Autonomous” Guidance and Big Deployments of Its New Small Solid SRBM. Vann H. Van Diepen. May 29, 2024. Military Affairs, WMD. North Korean media reported the use of a “new autonomous navigation system” on a May 17 test of a small….
Vor 4 Tagen · Secretary of War Henry Stimson promoted Colonel Leslie Groves, an army engineer, to Brigadier-General and placed him in charge of the Manhattan Project. Groves recruited J. Robert Oppenheimer, a theoretical physicist working at Ernest Lawrence’s Radiation Laboratory in Berkeley, California, as the project’s scientific director.
