http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1943/may1943/f21may43.htm
Red Army contain Germans in the Kuban
Friday, May 21, 1943 www.onwar.com
Soviet artillery breaks up German assault [photo at link].
On the Eastern Front... In the Caucasus, the German 17th Army continues to counterattack. Soviet forces continue to hold the offensive.
In Alexandria... Admiral Godefroy, commanding the French squadron interned in Alexandria, chooses to join the Allies.
In the United States... The Mississippi river floods. In total, 150,000 people become homeless.
In the Aleutian Islands... On Attu American forces make some progress along the Clevesy Pass.
In Washington... The Trident Conference continues.
On 26 January 1941, Yamamoto wrote a letter in which he stated (Prange 1981):
Should hostilities break out between Japan and the United States, it would not be enough that we take Guam and the Philippines, nor even Hawaii and San Francisco. To make victory certain, we would have to march into Washington and dictate the terms of peace in the White House. I wonder if our politicians, among whom armchair arguments about war are being glibly bandied about in the name of state politics, have confidence as to the final outcome and are prepared to make the necessary sacrifices.
Yamamoto had a sarcastic streak and no illusions that Japan was capable of fighting its way across the United States. However, a distorted version of his statement was published by Japanese nationalists who deleted the last sentence, creating the impression that Yamamoto actually advocated a complete conquest and occupation of the United States. This distorted version was then quoted in Allied propaganda, cementing the reputation among the Allied publics of Yamamoto, the perpetrator of Pearl Harbor, as a villain.
http://pwencycl.kgbudge.com/Y/a/Yamamoto_Isoroku.htm
Reverend Shea did not have a baseball stadium named after him. That was for a different guy.