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.
A month after this Germany signed an Comintern Pact with Imperial Japan and Italy joined that pact on November 6. On September 27, 1940 the three countries signed the Tripartite Pact, the keystone for the Axis alliance. Even before they signed the Tripartite Pact, Germany and Japan started provoking war.