Riots occurred in Beaumont, Texas, a city just to the north of Port Arthur, when white men, half employed by the Pennsylvania Shipyards, attacked homes, businesses and automobiles of African Americans.
Acting Governor A. M. Aiken had to call out the wartime Texas State Guard and deploy Texas Rangers, while also declaring martial law.
It was the first flight of the jet engined German bomber, the Arado Ar 234.
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The twin engined jet bomber was the first of its kind in the world, and would enter service in the fall of 1944, too late to be of consequence.
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