Yank magazine, a service produced magazine issued entirely by enlisted men, was issued for the first time.
Actress Jane Randolph appeared as the pin up girl for the of the first issue, something that was a feature of every issue. Generally, the pinup was pretty mild, as would be expected from a service magazine. The first issue's color pinup was unusual for any magazine of the era, as color was much less used in magazines at the time.
I'd like to put up the front cover of the magazine, but I can't find it. Generally, Yank featured a black and white photograph. It occasionally had combat illustrations on the cover, a lot of which were of very high quality. Every now and then the pinup girl made the cover if she was a famous actress, such as Rita Hayworth. The magazine was published throughout the war.
A second group of German saboteurs landed in Florida. This was the second part of the plot to land German operatives in the US to sabotage German production, something that didn't go far due to the nearly immediate defection of two of the operatives who were landed in New York as addressed the other day.
Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo was slightly wounded when a Korean nationalist shot him. The assailant was immediately killed by the return fire of Japanese policemen.
The Afrika Korps took control of the coast road to Bardia, thereby surrounding Tobruk.
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