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History on the 14th of July 1943

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14 Jul 1943 WW2 Before dawn, Allied Northwest African Strategic Air Force Wellington bombers attacked Palermo and Messina in Sicily, Italy while C-47 Skytrain transports dropped British airborne troops at the Simeto River at Primosole Bridge; the paratroopers attempted to establish a bridgehead, but they faced stiff opposition. During the day, British and American aircraft attacked Messina, Marsala, Enna, Palermo, Randazzo, Licata, and Lentini; in indirect support, American aircraft struck Naples on mainland Italy. Elsewhere in Sicily, US troops captured Niscemi and Biscari airfield while other British troops captured Vizzini. 
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14 Jul 1943 WW2 The Soviet Voronezh Front joined in the offensive against German 4.Panzer Armee and Armeeabteilung Kempf south of Kursk, Russia. 
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14 Jul 1943 WW2 USS Gar reported damaging a Japanese ship in daylight with her deck gun. 
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14 Jul 1943 WW2 The keel of British frigate Redmill was laid down. 
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14 Jul 1943 WW2 British frigate Anguilla was launched. 
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14 Jul 1943 WW2 British frigate HMS Usk and destroyer HMS Scourge were commissioned into service. 
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14 Jul 1943 WW2 The keels of German submarines U-1209 and U-1210 were laid down. 
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14 Jul 1943 WW2 German submarine U-429 was commissioned into service. 
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14 Jul 1943 WW2 German submarine U-549 was commissioned into service. 
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14 Jul 1943 WW2 German submarine U-675 was commissioned into service. 
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14 Jul 1943 WW2 At Krasnodar in southern Russia, the Soviets began a trial of 11 Germans accused of the murder of 7,000 civilians by gas vans, shootings, and hangings. 
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14 Jul 1943 WW2 German submarine U-178 attacked transport ship Robert Bacon with torpedoes in the Indian Ocean 35 miles off the Mozambique Light at 0236 hours. After the initial damage was brought under control, 52 survivors began a relatively orderly evacuation of the ship with the 3 surviving lifeboats and 3 surviving rafts. At 0314 and then again at 0443, U-178 fired additional torpedoes at the burning wreck, sinking her. U-178 would surface to point to the survivors toward land before departing. 
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14 Jul 1943 WW2 American troops occupied the Ellice Islands (now Tuvalu) and prepared for the contruction of airfields. 
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14 Jul 1943 WW2 The keel of submarine Pomfret was laid down. 
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14 Jul 1943 WW2 The keel of submarine Plaice was laid down. 
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14 Jul 1943 WW2 Destroyer escort USS Frederick C. Davis was commissioned into service. 
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14 Jul 1943 WW2 US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt dedicated US$30,000 for the George Washington Carver National Monument near Diamond, Missouri, United States. This future monument would be the first national monument dedicated to an African-American and the first to a non-president. 
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14 Jul 1943 WW2 Corvette Cobourg was launched at Midland, Ontario, Canada. 
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14 Jul 1943 WW2 Frigate Stormont was launched at Montreal, Quebec, Canada. 
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14 Jul 1943 WW2 Aircraft from carrier USS Santee sank German submarine U-160 south of the Azores islands. Off Venezuela, German submarine U-572 sank sailing ship Harvard. 
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14 Jul 1943 WW2 Joseph Stilwell departed China for India. 
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14 Jul 1943 WW2 The Marine Corps Glider Base at Edenton, North Carolina, United States, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Zebulon C. Hopkins, was redesignated a USMC air station. 
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14 Jul 1943 WW2 The US-controlled Woodlark Airfield in the Trobriand Islands east of New Guinea was declared operational. 
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14 Jul 1943 WW2 Rear Admiral Theodore S. Wilkinson relieved Rear Admiral Richmond R. Turner as the commanding officer of the III Amphibious Force. 
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14 Jul 1943 WW2 Destroyer USS Monaghan bombarded Japanese positions at Gertrude Cove, Kiska, US Territory of Alaska unopposed, firing 100 127mm rounds. 
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14 Jul 1943 WW2 US Army Major General Oscar W. Griswold became the commanding officer of the command of the New Georgia Occupation Force, relieving US Army Major General John H. Hester. 
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14 Jul 1943 WW2 US Marine tanks, units of US Army 9th Defense Battalion, and units of US Army 103rd Infantry Battalion arrived at Laiana Beach, New Georgia, Solomon Islands. 
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14 Jul 1943 WW2 Takuichi Ohmura stepped down as the President of the South Manchuria Railway; he was succeeded by Naoto Kohiyama. 
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14 Jul 1943 WW2 USAAF Eighth Bomber Command attacked three targets in France, with 111 B-17 bombers and 5 YB-40 bombers launched against aircraft factories at Villacoublay (3 B-17 bombers lost), 64 B-17 bombers launched against Glisy Airfield at Amiens (1 B-17 bomber lost), and 84 B-17 bombers launched against LeBourget Airfield at Paris (4 B-17 bombers lost). 
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14 Jul 1943 WW2 USS Tunny arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, ending her third war patrol. 
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14 Jul 1943 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: More of Air Group 9 on board. 
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14 Jul 1943 WW2 The keel of Sterlet was laid down at the Portsmouth Navy Yard in Kittery, Maine, United States. 
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14 Jul 1943 WW2 Two of the ten sections of USS ABSD-1 began to be towed from Morgan City, Louisiana, United States for the South Pacific. 
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