I lightened your picture to check just what it was. This is not a cracked die. It is a lamination error. That means that a portion of the planchet is tending to peel. It is caused by a gas pocket or an impurity in the planchet.
It is an error but as errors go , it is quite common on cents of the 1940s.
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