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Mayor LaGuardia urges salvage div reorganization
US fliers raid Meaulte, Abbeville and St Omer; lose 1st Flying Fortresses; RAF raids western Germany and Boulogne; Channel artillery duel; Gers raid northeast and southeast Eng
Brit announce withdrawal of Axis forces beyond 8th Army's minefields; Rommel reptd to have lost grip on passage between Brit coastal defenses and Qattara Depression; Allied air blows on Axis supply lines continue; Brit patrol activity, northern sector
Admr McNutt on training need
US East Coast: NY met area has air raid alert; confusion
1942Billy Best, Scottish footballer[†]
William James Blaikley Best is a former professional footballer who played football for Northampton Town and Southend United as a forward/winger. During his second spell with Northampton, he mainly performed in midfield and finally defence, as a centre back playing alongside the centre-half.
1942Alan Oakes, English footballer and manager[†]
Alan Arthur Oakes is an English former footballer who holds Manchester City's all-time record for appearances. Oakes is a midfielder who, in total, played 776 matches in the Football League – the tenth-most in history. He is a cousin of former teammate Glyn Pardoe, an uncle of defender Chris Blackburn, and the father of former goalkeeper Michael Oakes.
1942Andrew Stone, Baron Stone of Blackheath, English businessman and politician[†]
Andrew Zelig Stone, Baron Stone of Blackheath is a non-affiliated, and former Labour, member of the House of Lords.
1942Jonathan H. Turner, American sociologist[†]
Jonathan H. Turner, is a professor of sociology at University of California, Riverside.
1942Cecilia Beaux, American painter and academic (born 1855)[†]
Eliza Cecilia Beaux was an American artist and the first woman to teach art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Known for her elegant and sensitive portraits of friends, relatives, and Gilded Age patrons, Beaux painted many famous subjects including First Lady Edith Roosevelt, Admiral Sir David Beatty and Georges Clemenceau.
1942World War II: Japanese marines are forced to withdraw during the Battle of Milne Bay.[†]
The Special Naval Landing Forces were standalone naval infantry units in the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) and were a part of the IJN land forces. They saw extensive service in the Second Sino-Japanese War and in the Pacific theatre of World War II. While not existing as a dedicated naval infantry branch nor classified as "marines" by the IJN, they functioned as the infantry of the Navy, and engaged in many coastal or amphibious operations, leading to them being referred to as "Imperial marines" or simply "Japanese marines" by a number of Western sources.