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History on the 15th of July 1944

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15 Jul 1944 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru departed Truk and arrived at Mereyon, Yap; she would depart later on the same day. 
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15 Jul 1944 WW2 Rommel communicated to Hitler that Germany should seriously consider ending the war on favorable terms when it was still possible; for a unknown reason, this letter was delayed in its delivery, not reaching Hitler until 20 Jul. 
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15 Jul 1944 WW2 US 83rd Infantry Division became part of the US VIII Corps. 
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15 Jul 1944 WW2 A British No. 206 Squadron RAF Liberator bomber sank German submarine U-319 with depth charges in the North Sea; the aircraft was also lost during the successful attack. Also in the North Sea, another Liberator bomber from No. 159 Squadron RAF attacked U-561, but was shot down by German anti-aircraft fire. 
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15 Jul 1944 WW2 Claus von Stauffenberg aborted an assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler when Hitler departed a conference earlier than expected. 
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15 Jul 1944 WW2 US Fifteenth Air Force in Italy launched more than 600 bombers to attack four oil refineries in the Ploesti and Teleajenul areas in Romania. 
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15 Jul 1944 WW2 Japanese-American Staff Sergeant Kazuo Otani of the US 442nd Infantry Regiment was killed while fighting near Pieve di Santa Luce, Italy. He repeated exposed himself to German fire in order to give directions to his platoon, and crawled under fire to give medical aid to a wounded soldier. He would later be awarded a posthumous Medal of Honor. 
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15 Jul 1944 WW2 Soviet forces launched an offensive at the Finnish line in northern Karelia on the border of Finland and Russia; Finnish 5th Division counterattacked near Nietjrvi in the afternoon. 
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15 Jul 1944 WW2 The Soviet Second Baltic Front captured Opochka, Russia. 
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15 Jul 1944 WW2 German submarine U-679 damaged Soviet torpedo boat TK-57. 
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15 Jul 1944 WW2 German submarine U-181 sank transport Tanda in the Indian Ocean. In the Mozambique Channel between continental Africa and Madagascar, U-198 sank transport Director; 1 was killed, 56 survived. 
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15 Jul 1944 WW2 In the Mariana Islands, US Seventh Air Force P-47 fighters based on Saipan attacked targets on Tinian. 
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15 Jul 1944 WW2 US Navy Bombing Squadron109 PB4Y Liberator bombers based at Isley Field on Saipan, Mariana Islands attacked Iwo Jima, Chichi Jima, and Haha Jima. 
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15 Jul 1944 WW2 Minesweeper HMCS Rossland was commissioned into service. 
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15 Jul 1944 WW2 American minesweeper Ptarmigan was launched. 
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15 Jul 1944 WW2 Minesweeper USS Diploma was commissioned into service. 
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15 Jul 1944 WW2 In the Caroline Islands, US B-24 bombers attacked Truk and Yap. 
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15 Jul 1944 WW2 The US Eighth Air Force based in Britain launched two missions over France, with 169 P-38 Lightning and P-47 Thunderbolt fighter-bombers attacking German transportation southeast of Paris (3 aircraft lost) and 6 B-17 Flying Fortress bombers dropping propaganda leaflets over French cities after sundown. Four B-26 Marauder bombers of the US Ninth Air Force hit the L'Aigle rail bridge in the afternoon, while fighters also of the Ninth Air Force attacked various targets at Saint-Lô, Argentan, and Falaise. 
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15 Jul 1944 WW2 French Milice members executed 28 prisoners who participated in a revolt on the previous day at Santé Prison in Paris, France. 
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15 Jul 1944 WW2 Claus von Stauffenberg met with Adolf Hitler at Rastenburg, East Prussia, Germany at 1300 hours. General Friedrich Olbricht activated Valkyrie in Berlin, Germany two hours prior to the meeting, expecting his troops to be in position to seize key positions in the capital at about the same moment Hitler was to be killed by a bomb that Stauffenberg brought into the meeting. Hitler departed the meeting early unexpectedly, and Olbricht hastily called off the operation, announcing that the troop movement was simply a drill. 
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15 Jul 1944 WW2 USS Pollack departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her eleventh war patrol. 
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15 Jul 1944 WW2 Two divisions of the British 8th Army attacked Arezzo, Italy. 
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15 Jul 1944 WW2 US President Roosevelt arrived in Chicago, Illinois, United States aboard his personal train Ferdinand Magellan and met with the chairman of the Democratic Convention Robert Hannegan to discuss the upcoming re-election. 
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