page_title: February 1943
section_title: February 10, 1943 (Wednesday)
hierarchical_section_title: February 1943 / February 10, 1943 (Wednesday)
caption_attribution_description: English: A roll of silver, Scotch brand duct tape.
context_page_description: The following events occurred in February 1943:
context_section_description: Mrs. Vesta Stoudt, an ordnance factory worker from Sterling, Illinois, and the mother of two sons who were in the U.S. Navy, wrote to President Roosevelt with her idea for what would become duct tape, which she described as "a strong cloth tape" that had a waterproof wax coating, designed to seal boxes of ammunition, but that could also be opened quickly.  Stoudt had been unable to persuade her supervisors at the Green River Ordnance Plant that it would be an improvement over thin paper tape.  Roosevelt liked the idea and on March 26, 1943, the War Production Board would inform Mrs. Stoudt that it had approved the idea.
  The year-long Battle of Timor ended with a Japanese tactical victory, but an Allied strategic victory.
  The Battle of Krasny Bor began in the Leningrad sector.
  The 13th Waffen-SS Division began recruiting troops, primarily from the Bosnian Moslem community in the Nazi German-created Independent State of Croatia. The 13th was the first SS formation to employ non-Germanic men.
  Mohandas Gandhi, imprisoned in British India, began a hunger strike in protest against the British Empire, particularly the Viceroy, the Marquess of Linlithgow. The British cabinet, deciding that a turning point had been reached in war with Germany and that the risk of rebellion in India was not as great as it had been, "decided that if Gandhi fasted, he would be allowed to die." Gandhi's fast ceased after 21 days, but he remained imprisoned until May 6, 1944.
caption: Suggested by Vesta Stout
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