Saturday, January 24, 2015

Brits Take Manhattan

SAT 6 JAN 1940
Admiral James O. Richardson relieves Admiral Claude C. Bloch as Commander in Chief U.S. Fleet on board battleship Pennsylvania (BB-38) at Pearl Harbor, T.H. Admiral Charles P. Snyder hoists flag as Commander Battle Force on board battleship California (BB-44).

U.S. passenger liner Manhattan is detained at Gibraltar by British authorities (see 7 January).

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