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History on the 18th of July 1944

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18 Jul 1944 WW2 German Luftwaffe Hauptmann Werner Thierfelder, commander of the special test unit (Eprobungskommando) tasked with evolving tactics for the new Me 262 jet-powered fighter was killed when his plane crashed in flames near Landsberg, Germany. The cause of the crash was not determined, but it was likely to be either a mechanical failure or due to poor fuel quality. 
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18 Jul 1944 WW2 US XIX Corps troops entered Saint-Lô, France. British troops launched Operation Goodwood against Caen with Allied 2,200 aircraft supporting the ground assault, but stubborn German defense cost the British VIII Corps 200 tanks and 1,500 men, while just over 100 Panzers were destroyed. After sundown, 25 American B-24 bombers flew in support of resistance activities. 
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18 Jul 1944 WW2 Soviet First Byelorussian Front launched a heavy attack across the Bug River aimed at Lublin in Poland, the Third Baltic Front attacked toward Pskov in Russia, while the First Ukraine Front advanced toward Lvov in Ukraine. 
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18 Jul 1944 WW2 In Germany, 291 American B-17 bombers, escorted by 48 P-38 and 84 P-51 fighters, attacked the port facilities at Kiel and oil refineries at Cuxhaven. To the east, 377 American B-17 bombers, escorted by 294 fighters, attacked Peenemünde, Zinnowitz, and Stralsund. In southern Germany, B-17 and B-24 bombers of US Fifteenth Air Force attacked Memmingen Airfield and the Dornier factories at Manzell; 20 aircraft were lost. 
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18 Jul 1944 WW2 The keel of British minesweeper Styx was laid down. 
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18 Jul 1944 WW2 British destroyer HMS Zambesi was commissioned into service. 
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18 Jul 1944 WW2 British frigate HMS Balfour sank German submarine U-672 with depth charges north of Guernsey in the English Channel. 
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18 Jul 1944 WW2 A Mosquito aircraft of the British No. 333 (Norwegian) Squadron RAF damaged German submarine U-286 in the North Sea; 1 was killed, 7 were wounded. U-286 would be able to sail to Kristiansand, Norway later on the same day. 
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18 Jul 1944 WW2 A Catalina aircraft of British No. 210 Squadron RAF sank German submarine U-742 west of Narvik, Norway; all 52 aboard were killed. 
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18 Jul 1944 WW2 German submarine U-2504 was launched. 
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18 Jul 1944 WW2 German submarine U-3003 was launched. 
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18 Jul 1944 WW2 German submarine U-327 was commissioned into service. 
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18 Jul 1944 WW2 German submarine U-2323 was commissioned into service. 
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18 Jul 1944 WW2 German troops round up the 2,000 Jews at Rhodes and Kos in Greece; most of them would soon be deported to the Auschwitz Concentration Camp in Poland. 
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18 Jul 1944 WW2 German submarine U-479 fired a spread of two torpedoes at Soviet submarine chaser MO-304 in Vyborg Bay, Russia; U-479 reported that the attack had failed, but one of the torpedoes actually struck MO-304, which required towing back into port. 
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18 Jul 1944 WW2 In the Mariana Islands, American P-47 fighters based on Saipan attacked Japanese positions on Tinian and Pagan. 
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18 Jul 1944 WW2 Hideki Tojo submitted his letter of resignation for his position as the Prime Minister of Japan. He would be officially replaced by Kuniaki Koiso four days later. 
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18 Jul 1944 WW2 American destroyer escort USS Ulvert M. Moore was commissioned into service. 
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18 Jul 1944 WW2 Vice Admiral Gunichi Mikawa was named the commanding officer of the Southwest Area Fleet. 
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18 Jul 1944 WW2 The Japanese Navy 14th Air Fleet was officially disbanded; it had been wiped out at Saipan, Mariana Islands ten days earlier. 
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18 Jul 1944 WW2 USS Ray sank Japanese tanker Janbi Maru in the South China Sea, expending 22 torpedoes during the pursuit, 8 of which hit. 
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18 Jul 1944 WW2 In the Caroline Islands, aircraft of the Allied Far East Air Forces attacked Yap and Sorol, while 25 B-24 bombers of the US Seventh Air Force attacked Truk. 
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18 Jul 1944 WW2 Otozo Yamada succeeded Yoshijiro Umezu as the commanding officer of the Japanese Kwantung Army in northeastern China. 
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18 Jul 1944 WW2 As Polish II Corps advanced toward Ancona, Italy, it captured Agugliano, Chiaravalle, and finally the port city itself by 1430 hours. Meanwhile, troops of US IV Corps began an attack on Leghorn. In the air, US Fifteenth Air Force attacked various German positions throughout the country. 
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18 Jul 1944 RELIGIOUS German theologian and Nazi martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote from prison: 'Thereligious act is always something partial; "faith" is something whole, involving the wholeof one's life. Jesus calls us not to new religion but to life.'
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