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History on the 1st of August

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01 Aug 1911 WW2 Omar Bradley entered the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, United States. 
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01 Aug 1912 WW2 The keel of Lorraine was laid down by Chantiers de Penhoët at Saint-Nazaire, France. 
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01 Aug 1914 WW2 Erwin Rommel was posted to the 124th Infantry Regiment of the Wüttemberg Army. 
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01 Aug 1914 WW2 Germany declared war on Russia while its troops violated the neutrality of Luxembourg. 
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01 Aug 1917 WW2 Karl Wiligut was promoted to the rank of colonel. 
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01 Aug 1918 WW2 The Royal Navy landed a small force of Marines on Modyngski Island, commanding the approach to Archangel, Russia. 
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01 Aug 1918 WW2 George Brett was attached to the Director of Military Aeronautics of the US Army in Washington DC, United States. 
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01 Aug 1919 WW2 Quintin Brand was given the rank of captain in the newly formed Royal Air Force. 
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01 Aug 1920 WW2 Mikhail Tukhachevsky's Bolshevik offensive drove Józef Pilsudski's Polish Army out of Brest-Litovsk, Poland (now Brest, Belarus). 
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01 Aug 1921 WW2 California was commissioned into service. 
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01 Aug 1921 WW2 Vice Admiral Kiyokaze Yoshida was named the commanding officer of the Mako naval port at Pescadores islands, Taiwan. 
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01 Aug 1923 WW2 The value of the German Mark decreased to the level that it now cost about 1,000,000 Marks to exchange for US$1. 
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01 Aug 1923 WW2 Edmund Herring transferred to the Australian Field Artillery of Australian Army. 
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01 Aug 1923 WW2 Devol Brett, the oldest son of George Brett, was born at the Letterman Army Hospital at the Presidio, San Francisco, California, United States. 
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01 Aug 1924 WW2 The Italian Milizia Volontaria Sicurezza Nazionale (National Security Volunteer Militia) was re-organized as a branch of the military. 
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01 Aug 1925 WW2 Vice Admiral Nobutaro Iida was named the commanding officer of the Mako naval port at Pescadores islands, Taiwan. 
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01 Aug 1928 WW2 Destroyer No. 34 was renamed Yuzuki. 
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01 Aug 1929 WW2 Iwane Matsui was named the commanding officer of the 11th Division. 
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01 Aug 1929 WW2 General Jiro Minami was named the commanding officer of the Japanese Chosen Army in occupied Korea, relieving Hanzo Kanaya. Minami named Lieutenant General Kotaro Nakamura as his chief of staff. 
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01 Aug 1930 WW2 Yoshijiro Umezu was promoted to the rank of major general. 
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01 Aug 1931 WW2 Shigeru Honjo was named the commanding officer of the Japanese Kwantung Army in northeastern China. 
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01 Aug 1931 WW2 Lieutenant General Saburo Hayashi was named the commanding officer of the Taiwan Army. 
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01 Aug 1931 WW2 USS Arizona departed Norfolk, Virginia, United States for San Pedro, California, United States. 
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01 Aug 1932 WW2 Quintin Brand was transferred to the Egyptian government as the Director General of Aviation. 
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01 Aug 1933 WW2 Hugo Sperrle was promoted to the rank of Obserst. 
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01 Aug 1933 WW2 Capitaine de vaisseau Donval was named the commanding officer of Jeanne d'Arc. 
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01 Aug 1933 WW2 Major General Keikichi Ogushi was named the chief of staff of the Japanese Chosen Army in occupied Korea. 
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01 Aug 1933 WW2 General Iwane Matsui was named the commanding officer of the Taiwan Army. 
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01 Aug 1934 WW2 Yoshijiro Umezu was promoted to the rank of lieutenant general. 
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01 Aug 1934 WW2 Hiroshi Nemoto was promoted to the rank of colonel. 
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01 Aug 1934 WW2 General Kenkichi Ueda was named the commanding officer of the Japanese Chosen Army in occupied Korea, relieving Yoshiyuki Kawashima. 
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01 Aug 1934 WW2 Kenkichi Ueda was made the commanding officer of the Japanese Chosen Army in Korea. 
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01 Aug 1934 WW2 ShCh-307 was launched by Baltiyskiy Zavod at Leningrad, Russia. 
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01 Aug 1934 WW2 Viktor Abakumov was assigned to GULAG department of the Soviet NKVD. 
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01 Aug 1934 WW2 Field Marshal Count Hisaichi Terauchi was named the commanding officer of the Taiwan Army. 
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01 Aug 1935 WW2 Edward Brooks was promoted to the rank of major. 
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01 Aug 1935 WW2 Crown Prince Yi Un was promoted to the rank of colonel in the Japanese Army and was given command of 59th Infantry Regiment based in Utsunomiya, Japan. 
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01 Aug 1935 WW2 Lieutenant General Ryuhei Ogisu was named the chief of staff of the Taiwan Army. 
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01 Aug 1936 WW2 Georg von Bismarck was promoted to the rank of Oberstleutnant. 
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01 Aug 1936 WW2 The 1936 Olympic Games started in Berlin, Germany; anti-Semitic posters were temporarily removed for the duration of the events. 
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01 Aug 1936 WW2 Shunroku Hata was named the commanding officer of the Taiwan Army. 
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01 Aug 1937 WW2 Wilhelm Keitel was promoted to the rank of General der Artillerie. 
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01 Aug 1937 WW2 Hideki Tojo led Japanese troops at Battle of Chahar in China. 
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01 Aug 1937 WW2 Settsu was assigned to the Japanese Navy Combined Fleet. 
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01 Aug 1937 WW2 Destroyer Squadron 29 of US Asiatic Fleet departed Vladivostok, Russia for Yantai, Shandong Province, China while USS Augusta departed the same port for Qingdao, Shandong Province, China. 
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01 Aug 1938 WW2 Jewish medical doctors in Germany lost the right to insurance. 
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01 Aug 1938 WW2 Xue Yue took command of the Chinese 1st Army and was tasked with defending Wuhan, Hubei Province, China. 
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01 Aug 1939 WW2 Erwin Rommel was promoted to the rank of Generalmajor. 
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01 Aug 1939 WW2 Sims was commissioned into service. 
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01 Aug 1939 WW2 Crown Prince Yi Un was made the commanding officer of the Japanese 2nd Brigade. 
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01 Aug 1939 WW2 Edmund Herring was promoted to the rank of temporary colonel and was given command of the Australian 3rd Division Artillery. 
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01 Aug 1939 WW2 The Chinese 18th Squadron was relocated to Chongqing, China. 
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01 Aug 1939 WW2 Hiroshi Nemoto was attached to the Army Chief of Staff in Tokyo, Japan. 
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01 Aug 1939 WW2 German Ambassador to Britain Herbert von Dirksen reported to the Foreign Ministry in Berlin, Germany that the British-Soviet talks did not seem to be proceeding well. 
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01 Aug 1940 WW2 Soviet Foreign Minister reaffirmed Soviet neutrality while bad-mouthing the United States and the United Kingdom. 
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01 Aug 1940 WW2 A convoy consisted of 6 troop transports carrying 8,077 Canadian troops arrived in Scotland from Nova Scotia. 
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01 Aug 1940 WW2 German submarine U-34 detected British submarine HMS Spearfish on the surface in the North Sea and sank Spearfish with her last torpedo at 1904 hours, killing 41; one survivor, Able Seaman William Pester, was taken aboard U-34 as a prisoner of war. German submarine U-59 sank Swedish ship Sigyn at 0345 hours 60 miles northwest of Ireland; the entire crew was rescued. 
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01 Aug 1940 WW2 Italian destroyer Ugolino Vivaldi detected British submarine HMS Oswald on the surface 15 miles south of Sardinia in the Mediterranean Sea, charging batteries and performing routine maintenance. Oswald was sunk by ramming and depth charges. 3 were killed and 52 were taken prisoner. 
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01 Aug 1940 WW2 Italian submarine Goffredo Mameli sank Greek ship Roula 40 miles south of Crete, Greece; the entire crew was rescued. 
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01 Aug 1940 WW2 Dutch submarine O-21 fired two torpedoes at German submarine U-60 at the distance of 2 kilometers off Norway, but both of them missed their target. 
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01 Aug 1940 WW2 The US Navy established the new Alaskan Sector command within the Thirteenth Naval District. 
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01 Aug 1940 WW2 Adolf Galland was awarded the Knights Cross for achieving 17 kills. 
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01 Aug 1940 WW2 The Duke of Windsor, the former King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, received German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop's message. He turned down Ribbentrop's request for him to help bring peace between Britain and Germany, citing his loyalty to the British government. He did, however, maintain a channel of communications with Germany in the future should his assistance be helpful once again. To Ribbentrop's dismay, the duke departed for the Bahamas by the end of the day, ending the German attempt to use him to form a new pro-German leadership in Britain. 
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01 Aug 1940 WW2 Franz Halder and his staff began planning for the invasion of the Soviet Union. 
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01 Aug 1940 WW2 Yoshijiro Umezu was promoted to the rank of general. 
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01 Aug 1940 WW2 In the morning, a British Spitfire fighter on a photo reconnaissance mission found a build-up of German aircraft on the Cotentin Peninsula in France. At 1540 hours, 13 British bombers escorted by 10 fighters attacked, causing some damage but in turn losing 1 bomber and 2 fighters. 
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01 Aug 1940 WW2 Helmuth Brinkmann was named the commanding officer of German cruiser Prinz Eugen. 
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01 Aug 1940 WW2 RAF bombers attacked the Krupp factory in Essen, Germany. 
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01 Aug 1940 WW2 U-576 was laid down by the firm Blohm & Voss in Hamburg, Germany. 
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01 Aug 1940 WW2 Japanese Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka asked French Ambassador to Tokyo Arsène Henry whether Japanese troops might be allowed to enter Indochina to occupy certain airfields; Henry implied that his government would reject such a request. Meanwhile, Japanese Army aircraft were transferred from Northern China to Southern China. 
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01 Aug 1940 WW2 Operation Hurry: British carrier HMS Argus set sail for Malta with 12 Hurricane fighters for reinforcement. She was escorted by Force H with battlecruiser HMS Hood, battleship HMS Valiant, aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal, cruisers HMS Arethusa and HMS Enterprise, and 10 destroyers. Meanwhile, the Mediterranean fleet departed Alexandria, Egypt to conduct diversionary maneuvers in the area of Crete, Greece. 
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01 Aug 1940 WW2 30 German He 111 aircraft reached Norwich, England, United Kingdom and bombed the Boulton-Paul Aircraft Works and the Norwich railway station without any opposition, killing 6 and wounding 54 civilians. Meanwhile, in Germany, Hitler issued Directive No. 17, calling for a temporary halt on attacks on British shipping, shifting attention to the RAF. 
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01 Aug 1941 WW2 The United States announced an oil embargo against all aggressor states. 
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01 Aug 1941 WW2 Hiroaki Abe became the commanding officer of Japanese Navy Cruiser Division 8. 
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01 Aug 1941 WW2 Grumman TBF Avenger torpedo bomber took flight for the first time. 
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01 Aug 1941 WW2 USS Marlin was commissioned into service with Lieutenant George A. Sharp in command. 
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01 Aug 1941 WW2 Nine British Blenheim bombers escorted by Hurricane fighters attacked Axis vehicles at Sidi Omar, Libya. 
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01 Aug 1941 WW2 Denmark established diplomatic relationship with the Japanese-sponsored puppet state of Manchukuo. 
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01 Aug 1941 WW2 German Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels fabricated a quote from US Secretary of War Henry Stimson suggesting that Stimson thought the British war situation was hopeless. 
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01 Aug 1941 WW2 Walter Grabmann was named the commanding officer of the Zerstörerschule 2 training unit based in Memmingen, Germany. 
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01 Aug 1941 WW2 Joseph Stalin, satisfied with the progress of the rocket-powered fighter development project, issued an ordered in late Jul (and dated for 1 Aug 1941) for a prototype aircraft to be completed in a little more than a month. 
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01 Aug 1941 WW2 British minelayer HMS Adventure arrived at Arkhangelsk, Russia and delivered a supply of naval mines. 
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01 Aug 1941 WW2 Britain broke off diplomatic relations with Finland for invading Russia. Just over a year earlier, Britain had supported the Finns against the Russians. 
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01 Aug 1941 WW2 The US Navy established the Naval Air Station at Midway under Commander Cyril T. Simard. 
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01 Aug 1942 WW2 The United States Navy Task Force 1, consisted of 7 battleships and 10 destroyers, set sail for the Hawaiian Islands, where it would remain to patrol the area during the Guadalcanal invasion. 
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01 Aug 1942 WW2 The United States Navy Bureau of Ordnance admitted problems with torpedoes, but only that they were running 10 feet to deep, refusing to address the detonator failure issue. 
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01 Aug 1942 WW2 The British Army Air Corps and Glider Pilot Regiment were established. 
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01 Aug 1942 WW2 Chiang Kaishek accepted Joseph Stilwell's X-Y Plan for an offensive into Burma on the conditions that British generals fully cooperate with the campaign and that the Allies would support the offensive from the air. 
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01 Aug 1942 WW2 Captain Bunjiro Yamaguchi was assigned the commanding officer of light carrier Hosho. 
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01 Aug 1942 WW2 American born fighter pilot Dominic S. "Don" Gentile of No. 133 squadron RAF, flying a Spitfire fighter, shot down both a Focke-Wulf Fw 190 and a Junkers Ju 88 aircraft in the space of 10 minutes. This would earn him the award of the Distinguished Flying Medal. 
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01 Aug 1942 WW2 German submarine U-77 sank Egyptian sail boat St. Simon 35 miles northwest of Beirut, French Syria-Lebanon at 1335 hours; all aboard survived. 
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01 Aug 1942 WW2 German submarine U-155 sank Dutch ship Kentar at 0220 hours (17 were killed, 62 survived) and British ship Clan MacNaughton at 1800 hours (5 were killed, 77 survived) southeast of Barbados. 100 miles east of Trinidad, Italian submarine Tazzoli sank Greek ship Kastor; 4 were killed, 31 survived. 
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01 Aug 1942 WW2 German submarine U-601 sank Soviet collier Krest'janin 30 miles south of Belushya Guba, Novaya Zemlya islands, Russia in the eastern Barents Sea at 0023 hours; 7 were killed, 38 survived. 
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01 Aug 1942 WW2 German submarine U-601 received orders to go into the Kara Sea as a part of Operation Wunderland. En route, she would sink Soviet transport Krestyanin with one torpedo, killing 7. 
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01 Aug 1942 WW2 George Kenney inspected Mareeba airfield in Queensland, Australia. 
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01 Aug 1942 WW2 Yukio Kasahara was named the chief of staff of Kenkichi Ueda (Japanese Kwantung Army in northeastern China). 
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01 Aug 1942 WW2 Wilhelm Beck was named the commanding officer of German cruiser Prinz Eugen. 
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01 Aug 1942 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Preparation of site, including filling and grading, usably complete. 
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01 Aug 1942 WW2 USS Narwhal sank Japanese freighter Meiwa Maru and tanker Koan Maru in the Tsugaru Strait between Hokkaido Prefecture and Aomori Prefecture, Japan. 
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01 Aug 1942 WW2 Crown Prince Yi Un was attached to Japanese 1st Air Army. 
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01 Aug 1942 WW2 The keel of Unryu was laid down at Yokosuka Naval Arsenal, Japan. 
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01 Aug 1942 WW2 Marshal Andrey Yeryomenko was appointed the commanding officer of the Soviet Southeastern Front, charged with planning the defense of Stalingrad in southern Russia. Meanwhile, German 4th Panzer Army attacked Kotelnikovo located 100 miles southwest of Stalingrad, surprising Soviet defenders. 
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01 Aug 1942 WW2 German 1st Panzer Army captured Salsk, Russia. 
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01 Aug 1942 WW2 Georgy Zhukov launched a feint attack at Yukhnov, Russia, drawing German attention away from Rzhev where the main attack by 20th, 29th, 30th, and 31st Armies would soon commence. 
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01 Aug 1943 WW2 Amon Göth was promoted to the rank of SS-Hauptsturmführer. 
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01 Aug 1943 WW2 Hitler ordered the Orel, Russia salient evacuated. 
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01 Aug 1943 WW2 USAAF bombed the oil refineries at Ploesti, Romania; 30% of the raid force was lost. 
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01 Aug 1943 WW2 USS Finback damaged a Japanese transport in the South China Sea, hitting her with 1 of 4 torpedoes fired. 
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01 Aug 1943 WW2 Heinrich Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein shot down three Soviet aircraft, increasing his victories to 46. 
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01 Aug 1943 WW2 Americans captured the Munda airfield on New Georgia in the Solomon Islands. 
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01 Aug 1943 WW2 The puppet Burmese government declared war on Britain and the United States. 
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01 Aug 1943 WW2 Shokaku remained at Truk, Caroline Islands throughout the month of Aug 1943, except for two short sorties on 3 Aug and 25 Aug. 
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01 Aug 1943 WW2 Lin Sen passed away in Chongqing, China. 
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01 Aug 1943 WW2 Chiang Kaishek was made the Chairman of the Nationalist Government, making him the head of state and head of government of the Republic of China. 
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01 Aug 1943 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Part of Marine Fighting Squadron 223 (VMF-223) departed. A & R building usably complete. Telephone system usably complete. 
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01 Aug 1943 WW2 Irako transited the Bungo Strait between Shikoku and Kyushu, Japan and arrived at Kure, Japan. 
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01 Aug 1943 WW2 Over Ukraine, the Red Air Force's leading female pilot Lydia Litvyak shot down the German Bf 109G-6 fighter piloted by Feldwebel Hans-Jörg Merkle and another Bf 109G-6 fighter while flying a Yak-1b fighter. She was in turn shot down in this engagement. Her body was never found, and the Soviet Union presumed her to have been killed. 
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01 Aug 1943 WW2 USS Alabama was detached from the British Royal Navy Home Fleet and departed Scapa Flow, Scotland, United Kingdom. 
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01 Aug 1943 WW2 Submarine Golet was launched at Manitowoc, Wisconsin, United States, sponsored by the wife of Senator Alexander Wiley. 
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01 Aug 1944 WW2 Tirpitz completed exercises at sea. 
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01 Aug 1944 WW2 Manuel Quezon passed away. 
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01 Aug 1944 WW2 Soviet forces captured Lithuania, cutting all roads between Germany and the Baltic States. 
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01 Aug 1944 WW2 President Risto Ryti of Finland resigned; he was to be replaced by Marshal Carl Mannerheim. 
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01 Aug 1944 WW2 US 83rd Infantry Division became part of the XV Corps of the Third Army of the US 12th Army Group. 
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01 Aug 1944 WW2 The US 12th Army Group came into existence under the command of Lieutenant General Omar Bradley. 
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01 Aug 1944 WW2 General Philippe Leclerc's 2nd French Division landed on "Utah" beach, Normandy, France. 
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01 Aug 1944 WW2 Captain Taro Taguchi was named the chief of staff of the Japanese Navy 3rd Air Fleet. 
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01 Aug 1944 WW2 George Bush was promoted to the rank of lieutenant (jg). 
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01 Aug 1944 WW2 USS Puffer attacked a Japanese convoy in the Dutch East Indies, firing 8 torpedoes and claiming 2 hits which sank a ship. 
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01 Aug 1944 WW2 The Indian 111th Infantry Brigade, a Chindit formation, was allowed to return to front line service in Burma after health conditions improved. 
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01 Aug 1944 WW2 Joseph Stilwell met with Louis Mountbatten at Kandy, Ceylon to discuss Stilwell's temporary command over Mountbatten's theater while Mountbatten planned for a trip to Britain. 
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01 Aug 1944 WW2 USS Parche set sail for Saipan, Mariana Islands. 
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01 Aug 1944 WW2 USS Flying Fish departed Brisbane, Australia for her eleventh war patrol. 
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01 Aug 1944 WW2 USS Pollack served on lifeguard station in support of the air strikes on Woleai, Caroline Islands. 
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01 Aug 1944 WW2 Two brand-new Allied armoured divisions, the 4th Canadian and 1st Polish, arrived in Normandy, France. They were tasked with executing the final great break-out from the British sector to trap and destroy the German armies in Normandy or send them reeling back to the Seine. 
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01 Aug 1944 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Yokosuka, Japan. 
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01 Aug 1944 WW2 Soviet 1st Byelorussian Front under Konstantin Rokossovsky arrived in the suburbs of Warsaw, Poland. Seeing the arrival of friendly forces, the Polish Home Army rose up against German occupation troops. 
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01 Aug 1944 WW2 The Soviet-backed Polish Committee of National Liberation established its headquarters in Lublin, Poland. 
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01 Aug 1944 WW2 The second XP-80A prototype jet aircraft "Silver Ghost" took its first flight. 
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01 Aug 1944 WW2 USS Sunfish arrived at Midway Atoll, ending her seventh war patrol. 
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01 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Cod was strafed by a Japanese aircraft while she was boarding a small Japanese vessel. The submarine dove and escaped the area; the boarding party was rescued by submarine USS Blenny two days later. 
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01 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Blenny reported sinking three small Japanese craft with the deck gun in the South China Sea off Malaya. 
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01 Aug 1945 WW2 In the biggest air raid yet over Japan, 820 Superfortress bombers dropped 6,632 tons of high explosive bombs and incendiary bombs on four cities, bringing the total number of Japanese cities incinerated to 56. 
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01 Aug 1945 WW2 Naoshi Kanno was shot down in combat off the island of Yakushima south of Kyushu, Japan. 
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01 Aug 1945 WW2 The Chinese-American Composite Wing (Provisional) was inactivated. 
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01 Aug 1945 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Air Group 52 arrived. 
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01 Aug 1946 WW2 US President Harry Truman signed the Atomic Energy Act of 1946, placing nuclear weapon development in the United States in civilian hands. 
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01 Aug 1946 WW2 USS Saint Paul arrived at Terminal Island Naval Shipyard near Los Angeles, California, United States for a scheduled overhaul. 
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01 Aug 1947 WW2 Arthur Coningham retired from the Royal Air Force. 
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01 Aug 1947 WW2 FR Fireball piston-jet mix-powered fighters were withdrawn from service by the US Navy. 
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01 Aug 1948 WW2 Dong Zhao was relieved of his duty as the commander of the 1st Corps. 
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01 Aug 1949 WW2 Hiroshi Nemoto arrived at a hot springs resort at Beitou, Taiwan, Republic of China. 
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