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! In early May 1942 Japan initiated operations to capture Port Moresby by amphibious assault and thus sever communications and supply lines between the United States and Australia the planned invasion was thwarted when an Allied task force centred on two American fleet carriers fought Japanese naval forces to a draw in the Battle of the Coral Sea. Japan's next plan motivated by the earlier Doolittle Raid was to seize Midway Atoll and lure American carriers into battle to be eliminated; as a diversion Japan would also send forces to occupy the Aleutian Islands in Alaska in mid-May Japan started the Zhejiang-Jiangxi Campaign in China with the goal of inflicting retribution on the Chinese who aided the surviving American airmen in the Doolittle Raid by destroying air bases and fighting against the Chinese 23rd and 32nd Army Groups in early June Japan put its operations into action but the Americans having broken Japanese naval codes in late May were fully aware of the plans and order of battle and used this knowledge to achieve a decisive victory at Midway over the Imperial Japanese Navy. . Main article: 1950s Texas drought US President Franklin D Roosevelt and British PM Winston Churchill seated at the Casablanca Conference January 1943; ! .

The new international Terminal E at George Bush Intercontinental Airport opened with 30 gates in 2003. Jesse H Jones Hall for the Performing Arts, Main articles: Military production during World War II and Home front during World War II, Worldwide-acclaimed pianist Van Cliburn a native of nearby Shreveport Louisiana was raised in Kilgore Kilgore College houses the Van Cliburn Auditorium on its home campus. . In early 2006 the Champ Car auto racing series returned to Houston for a yearly race held on the streets of the Reliant Park complex the city had previously been home to a Champ Car round from 1998 to 2001.[citation needed]. . ! .