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History on the 19th of July 1941

History
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19 Jul 1941 WW2 British radio station BBC broadcasted about the "V Army", informing the general public on the resistance movements in occupied Europe. 
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19 Jul 1941 WW2 British citizen George Armstrong was executed at Wandsworth prison for spying. 
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19 Jul 1941 WW2 Captured (by German armed merchant cruiser Atlantis on 10 Nov 1940) Norwegian tanker Ole Jacob arrived at Bordeaux, France, carrying aviation fuel and the captured crew of tanks Ole Jacob and Teddy. 
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19 Jul 1941 WW2 Submarine HMS Umpire collided with a trawler off Kent, England, United Kingdom during her sea trials, sinking in 60 feet of water; 22 men were lost. 
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19 Jul 1941 WW2 11 British Blenheim bombers attacked an 8-ship German convoy escorted by 6 anti-aircraft ships off the Hague, Netherlands, sinking four of the transports and damaging another. 
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19 Jul 1941 WW2 Adolf Hitler ordered that American shipping were not to be attacked by German forces in order to keep the United States from fully entering the war. 
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19 Jul 1941 WW2 German submarine U-66 sank transport Holmside northeast of Cape Verde islands at 1042 hours; 21 were killed, 16 survived. 
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19 Jul 1941 WW2 Fijian ship Viti departed Suva, Fiji for Gilbert and Ellice Islands with New Zealand military servicemen aboard; she was to drop off small reconnaissance parties on many of the atolls and small islands to act as lookouts, or "coastwatchers", to watch for German surface raiders. 
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19 Jul 1941 WW2 German submarine U-153 was commissioned into service. 
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19 Jul 1941 WW2 German submarine U-375 was commissioned into service. 
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19 Jul 1941 WW2 Adolf Hitler ordered the German 2nd Panzer Group to move south toward Kiev, Ukraine as soon as the group completed the conquest of Smolensk, Russia. Heinz Guderian, commanding officer of the 2nd Panzer Group, protested and cited Moscow, Russia as the logical primary target, but Hitler would overrule him. 
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19 Jul 1941 WW2 Italo Gariboldi stepped down as the Governor-General of Italian Libya, succeeded by Ettore Bastico. 
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19 Jul 1941 WW2 Joseph Stalin declared himself the Soviet Defense Commissar (NKO). 
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19 Jul 1941 WW2 Heavy fighting between German and Soviet forces took place near Lake Peipus near Leningrad, Russia. 
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19 Jul 1941 WW2 Viktor Abakumov officially assumed the role as the head of UOO of the Soviet NKVD. 
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19 Jul 1941 WW2 Winston Churchill decided to share military intelligence gained by deciphering the German Enigma-encoded messages with the Soviets, but the Soviets would not be told how the intelligence was gained; instead, they were told that the intelligence was gained through a spies in Berlin. 
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19 Jul 1941 WW2 The keel of US destroyer Baldwin was laid down. 
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19 Jul 1941 WW2 The keel of US minesweeper Swallow was laid down. 
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