Elizabeth Windsor, then also known as Princess Elizabeth, and now known as Queen Elizabeth II, registered for service.
The then Princess Elizabeth.
She would later, as we've addressed elsewhere, volunteer for service with the Auxiliary Territorial Service.
Also on this date the Germans announced a 100,000 Mark reward for the recapture of French general, Henri Giraud, who had escaped captivity.
Held in Germany after the French surrender, he meticulously planned his escape and made his way to Switzerland, and then into Vichy France, where the government refused to turn him over to the Germans. The Germans ordered reprisals against his family and plotted to assassinate him. Ultimately, he departed Vichy France at the start of Operation Torch to become a Free French figure.
US troops landed on New Caledonia to help defend it.
ANZAC Day was observed in Jerusalem.
The tragedy of Internment processing rolled on.
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