Tag: February 1944
Soldiers Moonlighting, Theft, New Jersey 1940
In a brazen case of theft, more than 600 soldiers training at nearby camps in New Brunswick, New Jersey, have been moonlighting as factory workers, giving up their leisure time to boost production figures and lift the morale of civilian workers. But the question remains: what’s the real motive behind this unexpected surge in productivity?…
US Troops Battle Jap Forces for Control of Kwajalein Atoll, Washington DC, 1944
On a damp and dreary February 2nd, 1944, American invasion forces clashed with the Japanese Empire’s formidable defenses in a desperate bid to capture the heavily fortified Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands. The battle-scarred landscape of the mid-Pacific base was the scene of a mighty coordinated assault, as troops who landed on the outer…
Pentagon’s Personnel Puzzle: Roosevelt Cracks Down on Government Waste
February 1, 1944, will be remembered as a day of reckoning for the Federal Government’s bureaucratic behemoth. President Roosevelt, determined to root out inefficiencies, has demanded quarterly reports from all government agencies on their utilization of personnel. The Civil Service Commission, tasked with overseeing the effort, has sounded the alarm on the scourge of waste…
