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History on the 14th of July 1942

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14 Jul 1942 WW2 Yamato remained in Battleship Division 1 while two others transferred to Battleship Division 2. 
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14 Jul 1942 WW2 Nagato was transferred to Combined Fleet Battleship Division 2. 
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14 Jul 1942 WW2 Mutsu was transferred to Combined Fleet Battleship Division 2. 
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14 Jul 1942 WW2 Cruiser Köln began a minelaying operation in the North Sea. 
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14 Jul 1942 WW2 Hiroaki Abe became the commanding officer of Japanese Navy Battleship Division 11. 
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14 Jul 1942 WW2 Charles de Gaulle renamed the Free French to the Fighting French. 
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14 Jul 1942 WW2 British minesweeping trawler HMS Flint and mooring vessel HMS Moorfly were launched. 
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14 Jul 1942 WW2 British sloop HMS Lulworth forced Italian submarine Pietro Calvi to surface south of the Azores islands with depth charges and proceeded to damage her with gunfire. The Italian crew scuttled the submarine. Elsewhere, German submarine U-562 fired four torpedoes at a small Allied convoy at the distance of 2,800 meters, but all torpedoes missed; she would continue to follow the convoy and conduct further attacks on the next day. In the North Sea, the survivors of American freighter Carlton, sunk on 5 Jul 1942, was discovered by German submarine U-376; he survivors refused German medical assistance, accepting only rations, blankets, and cigarettes. 
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14 Jul 1942 WW2 For the assassination of German Gestapo chief SS Major Helm, the Germans killed 700 people in reprisal in Zagreb, Yugoslavia. 
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14 Jul 1942 WW2 Japanese submarine I-7 sank US freighter Arcata east of Dutch Harbor, US Territory of Alaska, and proceeded to machine gun survivors in lifeboats; despite the attacks, 25 of the 29 aboard survived. 
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14 Jul 1942 WW2 US President Franklin Roosevelt ordered the Joint Chiefs of Staff to abandon major offensive operations in the Pacific Theater and instead direct planning efforts on the invasion of North Africa. 
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14 Jul 1942 WW2 The keel of destroyer Bearss was laid down. 
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14 Jul 1942 WW2 The keel of destroyer escort Pope was laid down. 
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14 Jul 1942 WW2 Brazil declared war on Germany and Italy after Brazilian ships were sunk by German submarines over the past several days. 
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14 Jul 1942 WW2 The Marine Corps Air Station, Edenton, North Carolina, United States was designed the Marine Corps Glider Base, and it was placed under the control of the US Navy 5th Naval District. 
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14 Jul 1942 WW2 The US Army Air Force established the China Air Task Force with Claire Chennault in command; it was to be a part of the 10th Air Force. 
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14 Jul 1942 WW2 The Japanese Navy 11th Air Fleet was reorganized to contain four air flotillas, a destroyer division, and 3 transports. 
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14 Jul 1942 WW2 Light carrier Hosho was assigned to the 3rd Fleet. 
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14 Jul 1942 WW2 Destroyer Yukikaze was assigned to Destroyer Squadron 10 of the 3rd Fleet. 
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14 Jul 1942 WW2 In Operation Pinpoint, HMS Eagle departed Gibraltar to deliver 32 Spitfire fighters to Malta; she was escorted by cruiser HMS Cairo, cruiser HMS Charybdis, and five destroyers. 
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14 Jul 1942 WW2 Chuichi Nagumo was named the commanding officer of the Third Fleet. 
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14 Jul 1942 WW2 Italian submarine Calvi and German submarine U-130 attacked Allied convoy SL 115 at 2230 hours 575 miles west of Tenerife, Canary Islands; British sloop HMS Lulworth attacked Calvi and forced her crew to scuttle the submarine (42 were killed in the action, 35 survived). 
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14 Jul 1942 WW2 German patrol boats damaged Soviet submarine ShCh-317 in the "Nashorn" minefield in the Baltic Sea; Finnish minelayer Ruotsinsalmi and patrol boat VMV-6 followed the oil slick from ShCh-317 and sank the damaged submarine with depth charges, killing all 38 aboard. 
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14 Jul 1942 WW2 The deportation of Dutch Jews to Auschwitz concentration camp began. 
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14 Jul 1942 WW2 USS S-35 departed Dutch Harbor, US Territory of Alaska for her third war patrol. 
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14 Jul 1942 WW2 Submarine S-7 attacked a Swedish convoy north of Kalmar Strait in the Baltic Sea; both torpedoes missed. 
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14 Jul 1942 WW2 Some German Jews were deported from Theresienstadt Concentration Camp in occupied Czechoslovakia to Minsk, Byelorussia and other locations in Eastern Europe. 
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14 Jul 1942 WW2 The First Battle of Ruweisat Ridge began at 2300 hours, under cover of darkness. It began well with the Indian (5th Brigade) and New Zealand infantry (4th Brigade and 5th Brigade) overrunning two Italian divisions, but unbeknown to them had inadvertently bypassed a group of German tanks as well as a few German infantry positions. 
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14 Jul 1942 WW2 Reinhard Gehlen and Heinz Herre presented to General Franz Halder intelligence on the Soviet difficulty in recruitment and the redirection of Lend-Lease war goods to Egypt. 
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14 Jul 1942 WW2 12 Italian frogmen attacked Gibraltar harbor in Operation GG1; they damaged four cargo ships. 
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14 Jul 1942 WW2 The Intelligence Center of Pacific Ocean Areas of the US Navy Pacific Fleet based in Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii officially began its operations; its first chief, in a temporary capacity, was Joseph Rochefort. 
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14 Jul 1942 WW2 Shokaku was reassigned to Striking Force, 3rd Fleet, Carrier Division 1. In Hashirajima-Kure area in Japan. 
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14 Jul 1942 WW2 Nachi arrived at Yokosuka, Japan for refitting. She was assigned to Cruiser Division 21 of the 5th Fleet. 
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