Today in World War II History—May 26, 1943: Edsel Ford, President of Ford Motor Company, dies, age 49; his father, Henry Ford, resumes the presidency. Canada begins meat rationing.
From Sarah Sundin's blog.
Ford, a major philanthropist, died of stomach cancer.
Edsel Ford with his wife Elanor.
Edsel had taken the company into aviation, over the objections of his father, which was foresighted at the time. This allowed the company to engage in aviation manufacture during World War Two.
Like his father, his reputation in not wholly unblemished. There are some reasons to suspect that he sympathized with the Germans in World War Two early on.
Edwin Barclay, the President of Liberia, visited President Roosevelt and spent the night, at the Executive Mansion, the first black to do so. On the same day, Roosevelt ordered striking workers at rubber plants in Akron, Ohio to return to work.
U.S. Troops at Massacre Bay, Attu, May 26, 1943.
The Japanese attached Chinese forces at Pianyan in Hubei Province, but were repelled. the Japanese force of 4,500 men sustained 3,000 casualties.
The Germans ordered that concentration camp inmates cease being given sequentially numbered identification numbers in order that the number of murder victims could be concealed.
My father celebrated his 14th birthday.
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