This Day In History

• 1942 The Tule Lake Segregation Center for Japanese-American wartime internees opened in Northern California.   The U.S. War Department formally established the Armed Forces Radio Services (AFRS).  Radio Tokyo boasted of recent victories in the Pacific and declared that "the Japanese people can look forward to a triumphal march into London and a victory march in New York.  Anglo-Soviet Treaty signed in London.  Belgium Jews are required by Nazis to wear a Jewish star.   Tank battle at Bir Hakeim: Afrika Korps vs British army.  
• 1943 Edwin Barclay of Liberia becomes first president of a black country to visit U.S..  Jews riot against Germany in Amsterdam.  Prime Minister Winston Churchill & General George Marshall fly from U.S. to North Africa.  
• 1945 U.S. drops fire bombs on Tokyo.