Indian revolutionary Subhas Chandra Bose, whom we've discussed on these pages before, arrived in Japan after traveling via U-boot and then by Japanese Imperial Navy submarine. The transfer of Bose en route is the only such example to occur between two nations of a civilian during World War Two.
The Zoot Suit Riots came to an end. Amazingly, in spite of their damage so the American social fabric, and to the Zoot Suit itself, nobody was severely physically injured in the episode.
U.S. Army Air Force General Nathan Bedford Forrest III, age 38, when the bomber he was riding in as an observer was shot down over Kiel. He was the great-grandson of the famous and controversial Confederate General of the same name.
He was a West Point graduate from the class of 1928, and had been in the cavalry branch, but only for a year, before transferring to the Air Corps. His father had been a businessman and a Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan.
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