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War Production Board
President Franklin D. Roosevelt creates the War Production Board (WPB) to mobilize American businesses for the war effort. -
Manhattan poject organized
Col. Marshall of the Army Corps of Engineers creates a new District organization with the intentionally misleading name "Manhattan Engineer District" (MED). -
Japanese bomb Oregon forests
An aircraft launched from a Japanese submarine drops fire bombs on forests near Brookings, Oregon, in the first bombing of the continental U.S. -
Groves buys 1250
General Leslie Groves buys 1250 tons of high quality Belgian Congo uranium ore stored on Staten Island. -
First controlled reaction
First controlled nuclear fission reaction is produced by Enrico Fermi at the University of Chicago. -
U.S. repairs sunken war ships
The U.S. Navy announces that, except for the U.S.S. Arizona, U.S.S. Utah, and U.S.S. Oklahoma, all warships sunk at Pearl Harbor have been repaired and returned to sea. -
Command of PT Boat
After an eight-week training course in Rhode Island, Kennedy is assigned to take command of a patrol boat stationed in the South Pacific. He sails west from San Francisco, but does not arrive at his final destination—the Solomon Islands—for another month and a half.
