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History on the 1st of August 1942

History
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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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