1941 All German, Italian and Japanese aliens in California, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah and Washington and are ordered to surrender contraband. (WWII List).
"Contraband", in this context, was defined to include short-wave radios, cameras, binoculars, and weapons, or in other words items that the authorities feared could be used for espionage, or defend a person engaged in espionage.
The US and Canada were moving rapidly towards internment of their ethnic Japanese residents who lived on the coast.
1941 Sunge Yoshimoto, age nineteen, killed in the Lincoln-Star Coal Company tipple south of Kemmerer. He was a Japanese American war worker.
1941 Sunge Yoshimoto, age nineteen, killed in the Lincoln-Star Coal Company tipple south of Kemmerer. He was a Japanese American war worker.
He lived in the household of his father, Charlie, who had been born in Japan. Mr. Yoshimoto was widowed, but he still had six children at home in Rock Springs, ranging from 23 years old to eleven. A daughter-in-law, Hatsuko, of his also lived in the household at the time. Sunge had been born in Rock Springs as had all of his siblings. His sister-in-law had been born in Idaho.
On the same day, the Japanese bombed Corregidor for the first time.
Douglas MacArthur was on the cover of the Time magazine released on this day. An aerial gunner was on the cover of Life.
The Red Army took back Kerch in Crimea. Elsewhere in the East the Germans were completely on the defensive.
Eddie Rickenbacker announced that the 1942 Indianapolis 500 would be canceled for the duration of the war. He was then the President of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
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