Tuesday, April 13, 1943. Jefferson Memorial Dedicated.

Franklin Roosevelt dedicated the Jefferson Memorial on the 200th anniversary of President Jefferson's birth.

Jefferson Memorial, Washington DC

Another blog's item on this:

April 13, 1943 – Dedication of Jefferson Memorial

If the memorial were to be dedicated today, there's be protesters and consternation, noting correctly that Jefferson was a slave owner and had bedded one of his slaves, who was a half sister to his late wife.  We have the luxury of protesting, of course, as today we're perfect.

Radio Berlin announced the discovery of the graves of the Katyn Massacre, which became a propaganda point for the Germans.  That fact is thick with irony, given the extent of which Nazi Germany was involved in mass murder, of which the Poles in general were an early victim.

644th Tank Destroyer Bn at Ft Lewis WA. Wikib101hermann, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

Camp Lewis, Washington. Copyright Deposit November 5, 1917.

Remount Station, "Camp Lewis", Tacoma, Washington. October 31, 1917

Pierce County, Washington passes bond issue to purchase land for what would become Ft. Lewis

 Camp Lewis later in 1917.

Residents of Pierce County, Washington, passed a bond issue on this day in order to purchase 70,000 acres on the Nisqually Plains at American Lake with the intent to donate it to the United States for military purposes.

 Camp Lewis remount station in October, 1917.

The land would become Camp Lewis, and then Ft. Lewis, a still active military post.

Congress  had made the acceptance of land for military purposes authorized in August, 1916.