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The mindless rejoicing at home is really appalling; it makes me fear that the first blow against Tokyo will make them wilt at once...I only wish that [the Americans] had also had, say, three carriers at Hawaii...

- Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, Commander in Chief of the Japanese Navy (1942)

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Today in Military History

January 14

1943:

Casablanca conference begins, Churchill and Roosevelt agree to prepare for invasion of France and meanwhile (once North Africa is conquered) to invade Sicily

1950:

A North Star aircraft from the Experimental and Proving Establishment, based in Rockcliffe, Ontario, completes the first non-stop trans-Canada flight

1952:

HMCS Uganda is renamed Quebec

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