February 4, 1941. The United Service Organization founded.

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Today in World War II History—February 4, 1941

The USO was formed on this day in 1941.  It still exists.

The organization came into being  to provide, for a lack of a better way to put it, aid and comfort to American servicemen.  A non profit organization, it's services are highly diverse and difficult to categorize.

We're so used to the thought of their being a USO that its difficult to realize that during World War One, no such organization existed, and the same roles were instead provided by a variety of pre existing organizations such as the Red Cross, the YMCA and the Knights of Columbus.  The evolution away from such organizations to a centralized, larger, one with a singular focus is interesting in terms of what it meant in social development.  In no prior war had the US had an organization dedicated just to the needs of servicemen, broad needs at that.  It has ever since.

On the same day the Canadian SS Empire Engineer, a refrigerated ship, was torpedoed and went down in the Atlantic with all 39 hands.  It was one of ten cargo ships that went down that day, seven of which belonged to Allied nations, two of which belonged to the neutral United States, and one of which was German.

Commonwealth forces continued to advance in Libya, taking Msus.

More on the war on this day:

Day 523 February 4, 1941

The misery of war:

The cold wet misery of the Greek front line