This acquisition expands our existing operation in South America and adds an up and running African component establishing Tuscany as a leading emerging market drilling contractor, stated Walter Dawson, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Tuscany.
The Pacific half of World War II, which began with Japan's attack on the American naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941, ended almost four years later when Japan surrendered to American-led allies on September 2, 1945. 1  The surrender came after the United States had dropped two atomic bombs on Japan.
From the beginning, the military effort was to focus on Germany, already at war with Britain and the Soviet Union. The United States agreed in considering Germany the most dangerous member of the Axis alliance, Japan a secondary threat, and Italy (the third Axis power) militarily insignificant.ackground. On January 1, 1942, three and a half weeks after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and China signed the Declaration of the United Nations in Washington, DC. Twenty-two smaller countries soon joined them.