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History on the 18th of July 1942

History
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18 Jul 1942 WW2 US Navy Rear Admiral Richmond Turner took command of the Amphibious Forces South Pacific at Wellington, New Zealand. 
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18 Jul 1942 WW2 Frank Fletcher was promoted to the rank of vice admiral. He broke his flag aboard USS Saratoga. 
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18 Jul 1942 WW2 USS S-28 conducted a reconnaissance mission on the island of Semisopochnoi, Aleutian Islands. 
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18 Jul 1942 WW2 Rudolf Höss was promoted to the rank of SS-Obersturmbannführer. 
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18 Jul 1942 WW2 Prince Alexander of Belgium was born in Brussels, Belgium. 
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18 Jul 1942 WW2 British vessel Barfoil was launched. 
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18 Jul 1942 WW2 British escort carrier Pursuer was launched. 
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18 Jul 1942 WW2 German submarine U-384 was commissioned into service. 
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18 Jul 1942 WW2 German submarine U-666 was commissioned into service. 
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18 Jul 1942 WW2 Soviet Pacific Fleet submarine Shch-138 suffered an accidental detonation of her own torpedoes at Nikolayevsk-on-Amur, Khabarovsk Krai, far eastern Russia and was lost with 17 men. Shch-118 was also damaged in this incident. 
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18 Jul 1942 WW2 A USAAF Fifth Air Force B-17 Flying Fortress bomber, with two US Marine Corps observers aboard, flew a reconnaissance mission over Gavutu, Guadalcanal, and Tulagi in the Solomon Islands. 
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18 Jul 1942 WW2 Australian rescue tug Reserve was launched. 
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18 Jul 1942 WW2 A B-17 Flying Fortress bomber of USAAF 11th Air Force crashed on Umnak, Aleutian Islands during a weather and photo reconnaissance mission in the Kiska Island region. 
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18 Jul 1942 WW2 The keel of British escort carrier Ameer was laid down. 
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18 Jul 1942 WW2 The keel of American destroyer escort Pillsbury was laid down. 
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18 Jul 1942 WW2 American destroyer Kalk was launched. 
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18 Jul 1942 WW2 American destroyer Hall was launched. 
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18 Jul 1942 WW2 American destroyer Conner was launched. 
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18 Jul 1942 WW2 German submarine U-575 damaged British tanker San Gaspar (12 were killed, 40 survived) 50 miles east of Trinidad at 0625 hours; several hours later, 100 miles further east, U-575 struck again, sinking sailing vessels Glacier and Comrade with her deck gun. German submarine U-160 attacked Panamanian transport Carmona with multiple torpedoes southeast of Trinidad between 1633 and about 1715 hours, sinking her; 4 were killed, 31 survived). 
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18 Jul 1942 WW2 USS Skipjack departed Fremantle, Australia for her fourth war patrol. 
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18 Jul 1942 WW2 USS S-43 disembarked RAAF Flight Officer Cecil John Trevelyan Mason on New Ireland for Mason to check in with coast watchers. She would embark Mason before the end of the day and set sail. 
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18 Jul 1942 WW2 USS Wasp arrived at Tongatapu, Tonga. 
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18 Jul 1942 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru departed Balikpapan, Dutch Borneo. 
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18 Jul 1942 WW2 Prototype jet fighter Me 262 V3 Schwalbe took its maiden flight with Fritz Wendel in the cockpit over Leipheim, Germany. 
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18 Jul 1942 WW2 British submarine HMS Unbroken departed Gibraltar for Malta. 
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18 Jul 1942 WW2 Wolfgang Falck departed Venice, Italy after advising the Italians on nightfighting tactics. In a subsequent report he filed for Erhard Milch, Falck noted that the Italian nightfighting organization was extremely poor. 
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18 Jul 1942 WW2 German supply ship Regensburg arrived at Yokohama, Japan, disembarking prisoners captured by German merchant raiders that Regensburg supported. When inspecting captured mail that was also given to the Japanese, it was discovered that the Americans had broken the current Japanese Navy code, leading to a change in codes. 
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18 Jul 1942 WW2 Petre Dumitrescu was promoted to the rank of general. 
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18 Jul 1942 WW2 Soviet submarine ShCh-138 suffered an accidental torpedo detonation while in port at Nikolayevsk-on-Amur, Khabarovsk Krai, Russia, destroying the submarine and killing 17. 
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18 Jul 1942 WW2 Soviet submarine ShCh-118 was damaged in port at Nikolayevsk-on-Amur, Khabarovsk Krai, Russia when neighboring ShCh-138 suffered an accidental torpedo detonation. 
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18 Jul 1942 WW2 German troops captured Voroshilovgrad (now Luhansk) in eastern Ukraine. 
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