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Today in World War II History—July 19, 1942

Poster encouraging workers to strive for Army-Navy “E” Award for meeting production quotas, WWII

80 Years Ago—July 19, 1942: German Adm. Karl Dönitz withdraws U-boats from US East Coast to the Caribbean due to American convoy system and increasing U-boat losses.

Army-Navy “E” Award is created for to reward war plants that meet quotas.

George Washington Carver of the Tuskegee Institute begins work with Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, MI, to derive artificial rubber from plant sources.

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Today in World War II History—July 18, 1942

Messerschmitt Me 262A at the National Museum of the United States Air Force (US Air Force photo)

80 Years Ago—July 18, 1942: Germans take Voroshilovgrad, Ukraine, the coal and coke center of the Donets Basin.

First flight of turbo-jet powered Messerschmitt Me 262 at Leipheim, Germany.

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Today in World War II History—July 17, 1942

British troops near El Alamein, Egypt, 17 Jul 1942 (Imperial War Museum: 4700-32 E 14575)

80 Years Ago—July 17, 1942: Due to disastrous losses in convoy PQ-17, Churchill tells Stalin that convoys to Murmansk, Russia, are halted (will resume in September 1942).

Italians repulse British attack at Miteirya Ridge at El Alamein.

Flooding in Pennsylvania kills 15 after state record of 34.5 inches of rain.

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Today in World War II History—July 16, 1942

Buses waiting at the Vélodrome d’Hiver, where 13,000 Jews were assembled before being transported to Drancy and other French transit camps, Paris, July 16-17, 1942 (Bibliotheque Historique de la Ville de Paris, via US Holocaust Memorial Museum)

80 Years Ago—July 16, 1942: In the “Grand rafle,” Nazis and French police round up 13,152 foreign Jews in Paris at Vélodrome d’Hiver for deportation to concentration camps.

US Navy forms Task Force 61, Solomons Expeditionary Force, under Vice Adm. Frank Fletcher, and Task Force 63 over all Allied land-based planes in Southwest Pacific, under Rear Adm. John McCain.

Canada changes Income Tax Act to encourage married women to work.

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Today in World War II History—July 15, 1942

Flight Lt. Brendan ‘Paddy’ Finucane, an Irishman who flew with the RAF, in the cockpit of his Spitfire at RAF Kenley, 1941 (Imperial War Museum: CH 3757)

80 Years Ago—July 15, 1942: Irish RAF Spitfire ace Brendan “Paddy” Finucane (32 victories) is killed in action over northern France.

Germans begin deportation of Dutch Jews to Auschwitz.

In Nazi-occupied France, Jews are banned from many public places, including theaters, libraries, parks, cafés, sporting events, and phone booths.

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Today in World War II History—July 14, 1942

French General Charles De Gaulle, 1942 (Library of Congress: cph.3b42159)

80 Years Ago—July 14, 1942: On Bastille Day, Gen. Charles de Gaulle renames the Free French the Fighting French.

In India, Gandhi orders non-violent rebellion against British rule.

Movie premiere of Lou Gehrig biography Pride of the Yankees, starring Gary Cooper and Teresa Wright.

Babe Ruth with actor Gary Cooper in publicity still from the 1942 film Pride of the Yankees about the life of Lou Gehrig (public domain via Samuel Goldwyn Company)

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Today in World War II History—July 13, 1942

Italian frogman of X MAS, WWII (public domain via Wikipedia)

80 Years Ago—July 13, 1942: Nazis massacre 5000 Jews in Rovno, Ukraine, and 1500 in Josefov, Poland.

Italian frogmen swim 5 km to Gibraltar and plant limpet mines, sinking three Allied ships.

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Today in World War II History—July 12, 1942

Officers of Australian 30th Brigade at Port Moresby, New Guinea, July 1942 (Australian War Memorial: 025958)

80 Years Ago—July 12, 1942: Australians reach Kokoda, New Guinea, having marched from Port Moresby over the Owen Stanley Mountains.

First 49 civilian Coastal Picket Patrol craft go on patrol in the Eastern Sea Frontier (off US East Coast).

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Today in World War II History—July 11, 1942

German U-boat U-255, painted white in Arctic camouflage, returning to port after attack on Convoy PQ-17, flying four victory pennants and the flag of the merchant ship Paulus Potter (US Naval History & Heritage Command: NH71317)

80 Years Ago—July 11, 1942: Allied Arctic convoy PQ-17 arrives in ports in northern Russia, having lost 22 of 33 cargo ships plus two auxiliary vessels, to German U-boats and aircraft—on board these sunken ships, 430 tanks, 210 aircraft, 3350 vehicles & 100,000 tons of material are lost.

FBI arrests 158 German citizens in New York in a spy crackdown.

New song in Top Ten: “This Is Worth Fighting For.”

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Today in World War II History—July 10, 1942

US military personnel inspecting the “Akutan Zero” wreck, Akutan Island, US Territory of Alaska, 11 Jul 1942 (US Navy photo)

80 Years Ago—July 10, 1942: German Army Group A opens drive to Rostov and the Caucasus, Army Group B to Stalingrad.

At El Alamein, Egypt, Australians take Tel el Eisa and South Africans take Tel el Makh Khad.

US Navy PBY Catalina spots a downed Japanese Zero on Akutan in the Aleutians; salvage yields valuable information about the fighter planes.

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