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History on the 19th of July 1945

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19 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Tirante arrived at at Guam, Mariana Islands, ending her second war patrol. 
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19 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Sea Robin fired eight torpedoes at a Japanese tanker in the East China Sea, but all torpedoes missed. 
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19 Jul 1945 WW2 Canadian anti-submarine patrol vessels ML 076 and ML 077 were decommissioned from service. 
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19 Jul 1945 WW2 German submarine U-181 sank transport King Frederick off southern India in the Arabian Sea at 1703 hours; 27 were killed, 29 survived. 
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19 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Brill fired four torpedoes at a Japanese destroyer in the Gulf of Thailand; all torpedoes missed. 
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19 Jul 1945 WW2 Viktor Abakumov was promoted to the rank of colonel general. 
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19 Jul 1945 WW2 Lavrentiy Beria was promoted to the rank of marshal. 
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19 Jul 1945 WW2 Vsevolod Merkulov was promoted to the rank of general. 
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19 Jul 1945 WW2 Captain Enosuke Hirano, a doctor of Unit 731, examined prisoners of war Don Atkiss, Joe Holguin, Dick Lanigan, Jim McMurria, and Joe Nason at Rabaul, New Britain. During the examination he injected them with malaria-infected blood drawn from infected Japanese personnel so he could work on a possible vaccination. 
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19 Jul 1945 WW2 Canadian corvettes HMCS Peterborough, HMCS Rosthern, and HMCS Owen Sound were decommissioned off Sorel, Quebec, Canada. 
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19 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Bugara fired 9 torpedoes at a Japanese convoy south of Saigon, Indochina. All torpedoes missed. 
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19 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Ticonderoga departed Guam, Mariana Islands. 
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19 Jul 1945 WW2 Japanese special attack aircraft damaged destroyer USS Thatcher off Okinawa, Japan; another special attack aircraft narrowly missed destroyer USS Charles J. Badger. 
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19 Jul 1945 WW2 After sundown, US 20th Air Force launched 27 B-29 Superfortress bombers to mine waters off Japan and Korea, 127 B-29 bombers to attack Fukui, 126 B-29 bombers to attack Hitachi, 91 B-29 bombers to attack Choshi, 126 B-29 bombers to attack Okazaki, and 83 B-29 bombers to attack the Nippon oil plant at Amagasaki; only 3 B-29 bombers were lost by the US 20th Air Force during this night. 
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19 Jul 1945 WW2 US Navy Task Force 38 carrier aircraft damaged carrier Amagi, carrier Katsuragi, and battleship Haruna at Kure Naval Shipyard, Japan. 
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19 Jul 1945 WW2 US warships of Task Group 35.4 conducted a final bombardment of radar stations at Nojima Saki about 90 kilometers south of Tokyo, Japan. 
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19 Jul 1945 WW2 In a ceremony held by the air groups of submarines I-400 and I-401 in Maizuru, Japan, each of the airmen received a special short sword from Vice Admiral Tadashige Daigo before they embarked on their suicide mission against Ulithi, Caroline Islands. 
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19 Jul 1945 WW2 Settsu departed Kure, Japan. 
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19 Jul 1945 WW2 P-38 aircraft of US 13th Air Force attacked a Japanese suicide boat base in Sandakan, Sabah, North Borneo, while US B-25 bombers attacked Japanese airfields at Jesselton (now Kota Kinabalu) to the west. 
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19 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Spot departed Saipan, Mariana Islands. 
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19 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Bluefish sank a Japanese patrol boat with her deck gun southeast of Singapore. 
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19 Jul 1945 WW2 Ivan Serov, Sergei Kruglov, Vasili Chernyshev, and Bogdan Kobulov were promoted to the rank of colonel general. 
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19 Jul 1945 WW2 The United States Congress ratified the Bretton Woods system of monetary management, which led to the establishment of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD). 
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