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History on the 19th of July 1943

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19 Jul 1943 WW2 German submarine U-513 was sunk by depth charges from a PBM-3C Mariner aircraft of US Navy Patrol Squadron 74 south east of São Francisco do Sul, Brazil; 46 were killed, 7 survived. 
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19 Jul 1943 WW2 HMCS Huron (G24) was commissioned into service with Lieutenant Commander H. S. Rayner in command. 
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19 Jul 1943 WW2 Yekaterina Budanova shot down a Bf 109 fighter near Antracit, Luhansk, Russia, but her Yak-1 fighter also sustained damage and caught on fire. She landed safely, but when farmers rushed to help, they found her already dead. 
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19 Jul 1943 WW2 Canadian destroyer HMCS Huron was commissioned into service. 
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19 Jul 1943 WW2 Crew of Canadian destroyer HMCS Iroquois staged a brief mutiny by refusing to obey orders from Commander William Boyd Love Holms, for what they perceived as harsh treatment by the commanding officer. 
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19 Jul 1943 WW2 Destroyer escort USS Acree was commissioned into service. 
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19 Jul 1943 WW2 Destroyer escort USS Keith was commissioned into service. 
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19 Jul 1943 WW2 Lydia Litvyak shot down a German Bf 109G-6 fighter while flying a Yak-1b fighter. 
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19 Jul 1943 WW2 The US 633rd, 634th, and 635th Bombardment Squadrons (Dive) and the US 407th Bombardment Group (Dive) began operating from Amchitka, Aleutian Islands. 
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19 Jul 1943 WW2 Australian and American troops defended against repeated Japanese counterattacks at Mount Tambu, Australian New Guinea. 
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19 Jul 1943 WW2 Destroyer Yukikaze escorted a troop transport run to Kolombangara, New Georgia, Solomon Islands. 
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19 Jul 1943 WW2 During the day, in the Solomon Islands, B-17 and B-25 aircraft attacked Ballale Airfield on Ballale, while B-25, SBD, and TBF aircraft attacked Japanese positions at Bairoko, New Georgia. After sundown, US PBY and TBF aircraft attacked a Japanese task force near Choiseul Island east of Bougainville, sinking a destroyer and damaging a cruiser, but also losing several aircraft. 
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19 Jul 1943 WW2 US B-17 aircraft bombed Kahili Airfield on Bougainville in the Solomon Islands. 
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19 Jul 1943 WW2 The keel of British minesweeper HMS Serene was laid down at Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 
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19 Jul 1943 WW2 The keel of Canadian frigate HMCS Joliette was laid down at Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. 
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19 Jul 1943 WW2 Light carrier Ryuho departed Truk, Caroline Islands for Kure, Japan. 
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19 Jul 1943 WW2 The German-sponsored French military formation Légion des Volontaires Français held a parade in Paris, France. 
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19 Jul 1943 WW2 German submarine U-854 was commissioned into service. 
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19 Jul 1943 WW2 The keel of German submarine U-825 was laid down. 
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19 Jul 1943 WW2 Japanese G3M bombers attacked the US airfield on Funafuti, Ellice Islands. 
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19 Jul 1943 WW2 Dock No. 4 at Pearl Harbor Navy Yard, US Territory of Hawaii was ready for emergency use. 
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19 Jul 1943 WW2 The Italian capital of Rome experienced its first air raid by the USAAF, which resulted in 1,500 civilian deaths; 157 B-17 and 112 B-24 aircraft embarked on this attack, 5 of which were lost. Most of the bombers focused on rail marshalling yards in or around the city. 
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19 Jul 1943 WW2 At Feltre, Italy, Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini met for the 13th and last time before Mussolini was ousted from power. 
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19 Jul 1943 WW2 US 7th Army and British 8th Army continued to make advances in Sicily, Italy; encountering resistance along the coast, Bernard Montgomery ordered his British 8th Army to take an alternate route, inland, toward Messina in the north. The Allied Northwest African Tactical Air Force launched B-25 bombers to attack Catania and Randazzo while US 9th Air Force P-40 aircraft bombed railroads and railcars at Alcamo to support the ground troops on Sicily. After sundown, Allied bombers struck Aquino and Nicosia. 
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19 Jul 1943 WW2 Naka arrived at Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands. 
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19 Jul 1943 WW2 12 Polish prisoners of Auschwitz I camp were executed by hanging in front of the kitchen during roll call for helping three fellow prisoners escape. The men were Stanislaw Stawinski (No. 6569), Czeslaw Marcisz (No. 26891), Janusz Skrzetuski-Pogonowski (No. 253), Edmund Sikorski (No. 25419), Jerzy Wozniak (No. 35650), Józef Wojtyga (No. 24740), Zbigniew Foltanski (No. 41664), Boguslaw Ohrt (No. 367), Leon Rajzer (No. 399), Tadeusz Rapacz (No. 36043), Józef Gancarz (No. 24538), and Mieczyslaw Kulikowski (No. 25404). 
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19 Jul 1943 WW2 Soviet troops began to threaten German positions at Bolkhov, Russia. 
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19 Jul 1943 WW2 Winston Churchill suggested using icebergs as floating airfields. 
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19 Jul 1943 WW2 British minesweeping trawler HMS Gillstone was launched. 
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19 Jul 1943 WW2 British destroyer HMS Undaunted was launched. 
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19 Jul 1943 WW2 Greek submarine Pipinos was launched in Britain. 
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19 Jul 1943 WW2 British submarine HMS Unswerving was launched. 
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19 Jul 1943 WW2 British frigate HMS Inver was commissioned into service. 
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19 Jul 1943 WW2 The US Naval Aircraft Factory in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States was authorized to embark on the project codenamed Gorgon to develop air-to-air turbojet-powered remotely-controlled missiles. 
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19 Jul 1943 WW2 Pope Pius XII allowed citizens of Rome, Italy to take shelter in Vatican City. 
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