President Truman starts down a road that would turn out like poking a bear:
This is a bit confusing, historically, as what it resulted in is the current Department of Defense, replacing the Department of War (which is further confused by the illegitimate Trump interregnum pretending the Department of Defense is the Department of War), but it had real consequences. The War Department had effectively been the Department of the Army, as a second Department of the Navy had been created shortly after the War Department and it largely did not oversee the Navy. The problems associated with that became clear during World War Two, and therefore the desire to bring them under one roof made sense, although the Armed Forces did not like it.
The result was the current Department of Defense and its current, albeit evolved, structure.
U.S. Navy Captain Charles B. McVay III, the commander of the USS Indianapolis, was found guilty in his court-martial for failing to zigzag but not for failure to order abandon ship in a timely manner. He was sentenced The court sentenced McVay to lose 100 numbers in his temporary rank of Captain and 100 numbers in his permanent rank of Commander. In 1946, at the behest of Admiral Nimitz, Chief of Naval Operations, Secretary of the Navy Forrestal remitted McVay's sentence and restored him to duty. He committed suicide in 1968.
Regarding the Second World War, John Ford's They Were Expendable was released. I always think of this as a film that was released during World War Two, but it wasn't. It's director, John Ford, has been in the Navy, and Robert Montgomery, one of the actors in the film, also had been after having also been an ambulance driver in France up until Dunkirk. Montgomery would direct part of the film due to Ford breaking his leg, and prove so good at it that his career thereafter evolved in that direction.
The Swiss Parliament passed a law permitting the immediate expulsion of all foreigners with pro-Nazi or fascist views.
British fascist and founder of the British Free Corps John Amery was executed for treason at age 33. Amery's tragicatory in life is interesting in that it somewhat reminds people of some of the far right incels around now.
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