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Today in World War II History—April 14, 1943

Friday, April 14, 2023 by Sarah Sundin
Cocoanut Grove nightclub after the fire, Boston, MA, 30 November 1942 (US Army Signal Corps photo)

Cocoanut Grove nightclub after the fire, Boston, MA, 30 November 1942 (US Army Signal Corps photo)

80 Years Ago—Apr. 14, 1943: Stalin’s son, Yakov Dzhugashvili, dies at Sachsenhausen as a prisoner of war of the Germans.

The owner of the Cocoanut Grove night club in Boston, Barnett Welansky, is sentenced to 12-15 years for manslaughter for the deadly November 1942 fire (he is pardoned & released in 1946 due to terminal cancer).

Ens. Joseph C. Jenkins is commissioned as the first Black officer in the US Coast Guard.

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