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History on the 21st of July 1942

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21 Jul 1942 WW2 American submarines sank three Japanese destroyers near Kiska, Aleutian Islands. 
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21 Jul 1942 WW2 The keel for the future USS Cod was laid down. 
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21 Jul 1942 WW2 Destroyer Yuzuki supported the invasion of Buna, New Guinea. 
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21 Jul 1942 WW2 The United States Marine Corps 1st Base Depot established an advanced echelon at Wellington, New Zealand. 
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21 Jul 1942 WW2 After a four-hour pursuit, German submarine U-160 sank British transport Donovania 5 miles off Grand Matelot Point, Trinidad at 1029 hours, hitting her with 1 of 3 torpedoes fired; 5 were killed, 45 survived. 
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21 Jul 1942 WW2 The keel of British destroyer Zest was laid down. 
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21 Jul 1942 WW2 The keel of German submarine U-846 was laid down. 
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21 Jul 1942 WW2 Malta-based British aircraft attacked Italian transport Rosolino Pilo, which was escorted by two destroyers and two smaller vessels, after she had departed from Brindisi, Italy; they would fail to destroy the transport. 
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21 Jul 1942 WW2 Four B-24 bombers of US 11th Air Force were launched to attack Kiska, Aleutian Islands, but the attack was turned back due to weather. US Navy Task Force 8, dispatched to attack in conjunction, however, continued on, receiving additional fuel from oiler USS Guadalupe en route. 
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21 Jul 1942 WW2 Franklin Roosevelt recalled US Ambassador to France William Leahy to serve as Roosevelt's military chief of staff. 
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21 Jul 1942 WW2 German submarine U-84 damaged US Liberty Ship William Cullen Bryant of Allied convoy TAW-4J 40 miles southwest of Key West archipelago, Florida, United States at 0908 hours; all 54 aboard survived. 
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21 Jul 1942 WW2 Japanese submarine I-11 sank American ship Coast Farmer 90 miles south of Sydney, Australia; 1 was killed, 40 survived. 
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21 Jul 1942 WW2 Vice Admiral Gunichi Mikawa of the Japanese 8th Fleet based at Rabaul, New Britain, Bismarck Archipelago issued a request for more destroyers. 
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21 Jul 1942 WW2 USS S-43 disembarked RAAF Flight Officer Cecil John Trevelyan Mason on Anir island near New Ireland to check in with coast watchers. Mason would be captured without knowledge of USS S-43's crew. 
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21 Jul 1942 WW2 2,000 Japanese Army troops, Special Naval Landing Forces troops, and laborers, along with field guns and horses, landed at Gona on the northern coast of New Guinea. 10 kilometers to the east, another group of 1,000 Japanese landed at Buna. 
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21 Jul 1942 WW2 Tenryu provided cover for the landings at Buna, Australian Papua. 
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21 Jul 1942 WW2 Canadian corvette HMCS Matapedia completed her refit Pictou, Nova Scotia, Canada. 
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21 Jul 1942 WW2 New Zealand 6th Brigade launched an offensive south of Ruweisat Ridge near El Alamein, Egypt at 1630 hours, gaining several key positions early in the attack, but the British tanks failed to follow up as planned, thus leaving the forward units vulnerable to the counterattacks that would arrive on the next day. 
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21 Jul 1942 WW2 Shokaku departed Hashirajima island in Hiroshima Bay, Japan. 
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21 Jul 1942 WW2 HMS Eagle launched 29 Spitfire fighters and 4 Swordfish torpedo bombers for Malta in Operation Inspect; 1 Spitfire fighter would be lost en route from a leaky fuel tank. 
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21 Jul 1942 WW2 German 1st Panzer Army and 17th Army established positions west, north, and east of Rostov-on-Don, Russia. 
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