1941 – Admiral Ernest J. King assumes duty as Commander in Chief, United States Fleet. 1941 – Allied forces fall back to their final line of prepared defense above the Bataan Peninsula. 1943 – On New Britain, the US marine division captures the Japanese airfield at Cape Gloucester. 1944 – The US 8th Corps (part of US 3rd Army) launches attacks northward, against the German 5th Panzer Army, from a line between Bastogne and St. Hubert with Houffalize as the objective. Meanwhile, elements of German 5th Panzer Army launch another unsuccessful attempt at cutting the American corridor into Bastogne and capture the town. 1944 – General Groves, head of the Manhattan Project, reports that the first two atomic bombs should be ready by August 1, 1945. 1944 – Coast Guard-manned USS FS-367 takes survivors from USS Maripopsa at San Jose, Mindoro, Philippine Islands.
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