Wednesday, June 24, 2015

Frogs Surrender To Wop-A-Dagoes

MON 24 JUN 1940
Charles Edison, who had devoted himself to accelerating naval construction and to technical advances in the naval service, resigns as Secretary of the Navy. Lewis Compton, Assistant Secretary of the Navy since 9 February, becomes Acting Secretary. Edison will become Governor of New Jersey.

France signs armistice with Italy.

Japan requests that British close the Burma Road, thus severing the Allied supply line to China.

Rear Admiral Charles A. Blakely relieves Rear Admiral Joseph R. Defrees as Commandant, Eleventh Naval District and Commandant Naval Operating Base, San Diego, California.

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