Glyndwr Michael, age 34, died. The homeless Welsh man's body would be used in Operation Mincemeat, in which he was set adrift off of Spain with a fictional British Army identify carrying invasion plans for Sardinia. The Sardinian operation was a deception for the anticipated invasion of Sicily.
Michael's true identity would not be revealed for 55 years, something typical of the British mania for secrecy.
His tomb, baring honors, is in Spain.
The recent movie on this matter, Operation Mincemeat, is excellent, and does a superb job of depicting the events of Operation Mincemeat from beginning to end, including selecting Michael's body. This is the first references to the film here, but it's a very good film in all respects.
Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson announced the US would "ease restrictions on Americans of Japanese ancestry and employ loyal ones in war work", meaning the U.S. would form a Japanese American Army unit. In fact, the US was already employing some Japanese American servicemen as interpreters, but this paved the way to wider use of Japanese American volunteers
The Japanese submarine I-65 shelled Port Gregory, Western Australia, to no effect.
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