U.S. Army Lt. Robert Toner, the co-pilot of Lady Be Good, wrote his last journal entry, "No help yet, very cold nite".
Toner was a native of North Attleboro, Massachusetts, where he was the son of the police chief. In contrast to football star Tom Harmon, who we noted in our entry yesterday, Toner wanted int, having first jointed the Royal Canadian Air Force. He completed his flight training with the U.S. Army after the US entered the war.
The British War Office issued its first report on Germany's missile program.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer announced that the war had cost the United Kingdom £13 billion to date and was costing £15 million per day.
Martin Bormann was appointed as Secretary to Adolf Hitler, the second-highest office in Nazi Germany.
Bormann would not outlive the Third Reich. He attempted to escape encircled Berlin but was unable to, and committed suicide like many high ranking Nazis. Perhaps uniquely, however, he was sentenced to death, after his death, as his body was not identified until 1998.
Bormann had seen German military service late in World War One, but he never saw action. He was an early member of the Nazi Party, having joined in 1927.
Sarah Sundin reports:
Today in World War II History—April 12, 1943: US Second War Loan Drive begins, centered around Norman Rockwell’s Four Freedoms posters. Hitler appoints influential Martin Bormann as Secretary to the Führer.
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