Today in World War II History—November 3, 1941

First edition cover of The Last Tycoon by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1941
80 Years Ago—Nov. 3, 1941: Off Greece, in the first attack by a submarine using radar, HMS Proteus damages Italian tanker Tampico.
US Fourth Army Intelligence School holds the first Japanese language class at the Presidio in San Francisco, with 4 Nisei instructors; 58/60 students are Nisei; the Military Intelligence Service (MIS) will recruit over 6000 Japanese-Americans to serve secretly in the Pacific.
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Last Tycoon is published posthumously.