Navajo code-talkers on Bougainville, December 1943 (US Marine Corps photo)
75 Years Ago—May 5, 1942: Japanese land on Corregidor.
British land at Diego Suarez in Vichy-French Madagascar, fearing Japanese takeover and control of the Indian Ocean.
First 29 Navajo recruits begin boot camp with the US Marine Corps; will pioneer code-talking.
Sugar rationing begins in the US (See Make It Do: Sugar Rationing in World War II).
Fulmar fighters aboard carrier HMS Formidable off Madagascar, early May 1942 (Imperial War Museum)
