"One of our Filipino boys, injured in the fighting on Bataan, January 28, 1942, being brought back to a first aid station by his comrades. Longoskawayan Point, West Coast."
On this day in 1942, the Germans and Italians retook Benghazi.
The Ninth Pan American Conference adjourned. Twenty-one nations agreed to sever relationship with the Axis powers as a result of it, although quite a few already had. Brazil and Paraguay did that day.
From Sarah Sundin's Today In World War Two History blog, we learn the following:
January 28, 1942: 80 Years Ago—Jan. 28, 1942: US Navy PBO Hudson pilot claims to sink a U-boat off Newfoundland and radios “Sighted sub, sank same,” but no U-boat was sunk, an honest error. US Eighth Air Force is activated in Savannah, GA, under Brig. Gen. Asa Duncan; originally intended for North Africa but will serve in Britain. US Naval Magazine at Port Chicago, CA, is established as a subcommand of Naval Ammunition Depot at Mare Island.
And from our Today In Wyoming's History blog, we learn this:
Today In Wyoming's History: January 28: 1942 The USS Wyoming put in at Norfolk and began a series of gunnery training drills in Chesapeake Bay. Attribution: On This Day.
Oakland Army Base, January 28, 1942.
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