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History on the 16th of July 1943

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16 Jul 1943 WW2 Yamato was visited by the German Naval Attaché to Tokyo Konteradmiral Paul Wenneker, who wore a Japanese naval uniform. His tour of Yamato did not include the main turrets, and he was told that the primary armament of Yamato consisted of 40-cm guns rather than the actual 46-cm. 
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16 Jul 1943 WW2 In Sicily, Italy, Canadian troops captured Caltagirone, American troops captured Agrigento, while British troops secured the Primosole Bridge and marched for Catania. On the same day, Allied aircraft attacked Valguarnera, Vibo Valentia, Randazzo, and other targets in Sicily. 
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16 Jul 1943 WW2 Apogon was commissioned into service. 
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16 Jul 1943 WW2 British President of Edution R. A. Butler announced a plan to remodel secondary schools (for children between the ages of 11 and 15) in the United Kingdom, dividing the existing schools into grammar, modern, and technical tiers. 
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16 Jul 1943 WW2 14 B-26B bombers of USAAF VIII Air Support Command attacked the rail marshalling yard at Abbeville, France at 2000 hours. This was VIII Air Support Command's first combat operation. 
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16 Jul 1943 WW2 British patrol vessel HMS Kilbernie was commissioned into service. 
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16 Jul 1943 WW2 British sloop Lapwing and corvette Rushen Castle were launched. 
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16 Jul 1943 WW2 Theophil Wurm, the bishop of Württemberg, Germany, wrote to Adolf Hitler in protest of the deaths that were occurring in concentration camps. 
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16 Jul 1943 WW2 German submarine U-366 was commissioned into service. 
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16 Jul 1943 WW2 German submarine U-1192 was launched. 
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16 Jul 1943 WW2 Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt jointly issued an announcement to the Italian people, urging them to remove Benito Mussolini from power and to seek surrender. On the same day, Allied aircraft dropped leaflets containing the same message over Italian cities. 
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16 Jul 1943 WW2 Before dawn, British Wellington bombers of the Allied Northwest African Strategic Air Force attacked Crotone, Reggio di Calabria, and Villa San Giovanni in southern Italy. During the day, American B-24 Liberator bombers of the USAAF Ninth Air Force Bari in southern Italy; 3 American bombers and 11 German fighters were shot down during the aerial battle. 
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16 Jul 1943 WW2 Generaloberst Walter Model, already the commanding officer of the German Ninth Army, assumed a second role as the commander of the Second Panzer Army upon the arrest of Generaloberst Rudolf Schmidt by the Gestapo. 
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16 Jul 1943 WW2 Italian submarine Dandolo damaged British light cruiser HMS Cleopatra with a torpedo; Cleopatra would receive temporary repairs at Malta. 
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16 Jul 1943 WW2 German submarine U-181 sank transport Fort Franklin southwest of Réunion island in the Indian Ocean at 1558 hours; 2 were killed, 53 survived. 
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16 Jul 1943 WW2 The keel of Canadian frigate Beacon Hill was laid down Esquimalt, British Columbia, Canada. 
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16 Jul 1943 WW2 Destroyer USS Stembel was commissioned into service. 
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16 Jul 1943 WW2 Destroyer escort USS Dionne was commissioned into service. 
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16 Jul 1943 WW2 American destroyer escort Vance was launched. 
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16 Jul 1943 WW2 American frigate El Paso was launched. 
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16 Jul 1943 WW2 German submarine U-306 attacked Allied convoy SL-133 in the Atlantic Ocean, damaging Kaipara at 0352 hours; she would attack again at 0801 hours with two spreads of two torpedoes, but none would cause any damage. Several hours later, TBF Avenger aircraft of US Navy Composite Squadron 13 from escort carrier USS Core sank German submarine U-67 with depth charges in the Atlantic Ocean; 48 were killed, 3 survived. At 2115 hours, German submarine U-513 sank transport Richard Caswell 150 miles southeast of Florianopolis, Brazil with two torpedoes; 9 were killed, 60 survived in 3 lifeboats and 2 rafts. 
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16 Jul 1943 WW2 Lydia Litvyak shot down the German Bf 109G fighter pilot by Oberfeldwebel Hans Grünberg and another Bf 109G fighter while flying a Yak-1b fighter. 
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16 Jul 1943 WW2 More than 30 B-24 Liberator and B-17 Flying Fortress bombers of the US Thirteenth Air Force attacked Kahili Airfield on Bougainville, Solomon Islands. 
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16 Jul 1943 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Four new barracks turned over to station. 
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16 Jul 1943 WW2 USS S-35 and a Japanese destroyer gave chase to each other off Paramushiro, Hokkaido, Japan; no hits were scored by either side when night fell and they lost sight of each other. 
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