Aug 28, 1945 Not a Chance Adolph Patriotic Cover Camp Maxey CDS Ex-Puls


Aug. 28, 1945: First US troops arrive in Japan: 24 C-47 cargo planes land unopposed at Atsugi Field outside Tokyo with 150 troops of the US 11th Airborne to establish an air base. Branch Rickey of Brooklyn Dodgers offers contract to Jackie Robinson if he’ll have the “guts enough not to fight back” to racial antagonism; Robinson agrees.


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