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History on the 17th of July 1942

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17 Jul 1942 WW2 USS Long Island resumed carrier pilot training operations. 
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17 Jul 1942 WW2 Winston Churchill warned Joseph Stalin that, in the aftermath of the convoy PQ-17 disaster, no further convoy missions were in the plans for northern Russia in the foreseeable future. 
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17 Jul 1942 WW2 In Libya, US Army Middle East Air Force launched B-24 bombers to attack Benghazi and B-17 bombers to attack Tobruk. 
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17 Jul 1942 WW2 USAAF B-17 bombers attacked Rabaul, New Britain. 
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17 Jul 1942 WW2 Minesweeper HMAS Castlemaine was commissioned into service. 
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17 Jul 1942 WW2 US 11th Air Force bombers attacked Japanese positions at Kiska, Aleutian Islands. 
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17 Jul 1942 WW2 American submarine Hake was launched. 
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17 Jul 1942 WW2 Whitley aircraft of No. 61 Squadron RAF and Lancaster aircraft of No. 502 Squadron RAF sank German submarine U-751 northwest of Cape Ortegal, Spain, killing all 48 aboard. 1,000 miles West of Angola, German armed merchant cruiser Michel, having pursued since the previous evening, caught up and sank Norwegian tanker Aramis at dusk; 20 were killed, 23 survived and were captured. 
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17 Jul 1942 WW2 American destroyer Satterlee was launched. 
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17 Jul 1942 WW2 British minesweeping trawlers Bardsey and Rosevean and frigates Bentley, Keats, and Kempthorne were launched. 
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17 Jul 1942 WW2 Dutch submarine Zwaardvisch was launched. 
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17 Jul 1942 WW2 Minesweeper HMS Aries was commissioned into service. 
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17 Jul 1942 WW2 German submarine U-747 was commissioned into service. 
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17 Jul 1942 WW2 The keel of German submarine U-880 was laid down. 
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17 Jul 1942 WW2 German submarine U-478 was launched. 
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17 Jul 1942 WW2 German submarine U-903 was launched. 
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17 Jul 1942 WW2 Francisco Franco made his annual Civil War anniversary speech. 
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17 Jul 1942 WW2 In Italy, about 280 American bombers attacked the rail marshalling yard at Naples while RAF bombers attacked Reggio di Calabria. 
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17 Jul 1942 WW2 German occupation forces conducted an anti-patisan operation at Trifolo near Katerini, Greece, rounding up suspected resistance fighters and executing the suspects en masse. 
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17 Jul 1942 WW2 German tanks stopped the Soviet advance north and west of Orel, Russia. 
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17 Jul 1942 WW2 US Army, US Navy, and New Zealand Air Force aircraft attacked various Japanese bases and shiping in the northern Solomon Islands and New Guinea. 
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17 Jul 1942 WW2 Troops of the Australian 3rd Division and US 41st Division marched from Nassau Bay toward Salamaua, New Guinea. 
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17 Jul 1942 WW2 The keel of American destroyer escort Swenning was laid down. 
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17 Jul 1942 WW2 The keel of American destroyer escort Willis was laid down. 
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17 Jul 1942 WW2 American light cruiser Vincennes was launched. 
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17 Jul 1942 WW2 Anti-aircraft cruiser USS Oakland was commissioned into service. 
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17 Jul 1942 WW2 The keel of Canadian frigate Longueil was laid down at Montreal, Quebec, Canada. 
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17 Jul 1942 WW2 Canadian frigate Valleyfield was launched at Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. 
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17 Jul 1942 WW2 The keel of British minesweeper Providence was laid down at Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 
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17 Jul 1942 WW2 A B-17 aircraft of US 435th Bombardment Squadron conducted a photograph reconnaissance mission over Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands. USMC Lieutenant Colonel Merrill Twining and Major William McKean were on board the aircraft; upon seeing the Japanese progress on the Guadalcanal airfield, he noted "I hope they build a good one. We are going to use it." 
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17 Jul 1942 WW2 Australian 24th Brigade and British 44th Royal Tank Regiment, supported by RAF fighters, attacked Miteirya Ridge (also known as Ruin Ridge to Australians) between Tel el Eisa and Ruweisat near El Alamein, Egypt; the offensive initially overran the line held by Italian Trento Division and Italian Trieste Division, but would ultimately be driven back by German tanks and Italian Trento Division. 
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17 Jul 1942 WW2 Chinese 38th Division under Sun Liren arrived at Ramgarh Training Center, India. 
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17 Jul 1942 WW2 German submarine U-178 sank transport City of Canton northeast of Beira, Mozambique at 0031 hours; 8 were killed, 76 survived (one of whom was taken prisoner by the Germans). 
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17 Jul 1942 WW2 B-17 bombers of the USAAF VIII Bomber Command planned attacks on Hannover and Hamburg, Germany, but both missions were recalled after launch due to poor weather. 33 of the bombers attacked targets of opportunity after receiving the recall order; 21 of them attempted to attack the Fokker factory at Amsterdam, the Netherlands but accidentally dropped bombs on civilian quarters, killing 150. On the same day, B-26 bombers of US VIII Air Support Command attacked Cayeux, France as a diversion to draw German fighters away from the primary targets in Germany. 
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17 Jul 1942 WW2 Heinrich Himmler visited Auschwitz-Birkenau camp in Poland for two days to inspect the construction of crematoriums, inspect the expansion of prisoner barracks, and observe the extermination of two trainloads of Dutch Jews. 
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17 Jul 1942 WW2 German 1st Panzer Army reached Voroshilovgrad (now Luhansk), Russia. 
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17 Jul 1942 WW2 He 111 bombers of German Luftwaffe unit II./KG 55, with the new Lotfe 7D bombsights, flew tactical missions in support of German 5th Panzer Army near Rostov-on-Don in southern Russia, destroying the key bridge across the lower Don River. 
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17 Jul 1942 WW2 Adolf Hitler traveled from the Wolfsschanze headquarters in East Prussia, Germany to the headquarters in Vinnitsa, Ukraine. 
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17 Jul 1942 WW2 A detachment consisted of 225 men and 4 officers of the US Navy 5th Construction Battalion arrived at Midway Atoll. The remainder of the battalion would arrive during the following month. They were to build an airfield and an underground hospital on Sand Island. 
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17 Jul 1942 RELIGIOUS New Tribes Mission was organized by founder Paul W. Fleming. Thisinterdenominational missions agency supports over 1,000 staff members in countries aroundthe world.
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