Poster for American Red Cross War Relief, WWII 85 Years Ago—Mar. 13, 1941: Franklin Roosevelt establishes President’s Committee on War Relief Agencies. In first mass executions in the occupied Netherlands, the Germans execute 15 Dutch resistance members and 3 February strikers. Two Japanese-American men are sworn in to US Army Corps of Intelligence Police to conduct surveillance into the Japanese community in Manila in the Philippines.The post Today in World War II History—March 13, 1941 first appeared on Sarah Sundin.