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Australian reaction; Royce gets message from Gen Marshall; describes raid; U S secret base prepared for repeated use; Davies lauds planes
Cabinet formation delayed
Brit King conf George Cross on Malta for stand
U S-Filipino patrol action reptd, Mindanao
1942Buster Williams, American jazz bassist[†]
Charles Anthony "Buster" Williams is an American jazz bassist. Williams is known for his membership in pianist Herbie Hancock's early 1970s group, as well as working with guitarist Larry Coryell, the Thelonious Monk repertory band Sphere and as the accompanist of choice for many singers, including Nancy Wilson.
1942Dnyaneshwar Agashe, Indian businessman and cricketer (died 2009)[†]
Dnyaneshwar Chandrashekhar Agashe was an Indian businessman, cricketer, cricket administrator, and philanthropist. He founded the Suvarna Sahakari Bank in 1969, and served as its managing director from its inception until his death. From 1970 to 1978, he served as the joint managing director of the Brihan Maharashtra Sugar Syndicate Ltd. with his brother, and then as the company's sole managing director from 1978 until his death.
1942Jean Baptiste Perrin, French-American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1870)[†]
Jean Baptiste Perrin was a French atomic physicist who, in his studies of the Brownian motion of minute particles suspended in liquids, verified Albert Einstein's explanation of this phenomenon and thereby confirmed the atomic nature of matter. For this work, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1926.
1942French prisoner of war General Henri Giraud escapes from his castle prison in Königstein Fortress.[†]
A prisoner of war (POW) is a person held captive by a belligerent power during or immediately after an armed conflict. The earliest recorded usage of the phrase "prisoner of war" dates back to 1610. Belligerents hold prisoners of war for a range of reasons. These may include isolating them from enemy combatants still in the field, demonstrating military victory, punishment, prosecution of war crimes, labour exploitation, recruiting or even conscripting them as combatants, extracting or collecting military and political intelligence, and political or religious indoctrination.