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July 14, 2017
Today in World War II History—July 14, 1942
French General Charles De Gaulle, 1942 (Library of Congress)
75 Years Ago—July 14, 1942: Germans begin deportation of Dutch Jews to Auschwitz.
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, Teresa Wright.
July 13, 2017
Today in World War II History—July 13, 1942
Italian frogman of X MAS, WWII (public domain via Wikipedia)
75 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.
July 12, 2017
Today in World War II History—July 12, 1942
Officers of Australian 30th Brigade at Port Moresby, New Guinea, July 1942 (Australian War Memorial)
75 Years Ago—July 12, 1942: Australians reach Kokoda, New Guinea, having marched from Port Moresby over Owen Stanley Mountains.
First 49 civilian Coastal Picket Patrol craft go on patrol in Eastern Sea Frontier (off US East Coast).
July 11, 2017
Today in World War II History—July 11, 1942
German U-boat U-255 returning to port after attack on Convoy PQ-17, flying four victory pennants and the flag of the merchant ship Paulus Potter (US Navy photo)
75 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.
FBI arrests 158 German citizens in New York in a spy crackdown.
New song in Top Ten: “This Is Worth Fighting For.”
July 10, 2017
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 (public domain via WW2 Database)
75 Years Ago—July 10, 1942: German Army Group A opens drive to Rostov and the Caucasus, Group B to Stalingrad.
At El Alamein, 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.
July 9, 2017
Today in World War II History—July 9, 1942
History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, volume 1, by Samuel Eliot Morison
75 Years Ago—July 9, 1942: German Army Group South divided into Army Group A and Army Group B.
US Navy assigns Lt. Cdr. Samuel Eliot Morison the task of writing the US naval history of WWII, which will run to 15 volumes.
In British convoy WP-183 off Lyme Bay, German torpedo boats sink five cargo ships and an antisubmarine trawler.
July 8, 2017
Today in World War II History—July 8, 1942
Patch of the US Tenth Air Force, WWII
75 Years Ago—July 8, 1942: Brig. Gen. Claire Chennault takes command of the China Air Task Force within the US Tenth Air Force, which has absorbed his former AVG (“Flying Tigers”).
US Army Air Force adds rank of Flight Officer for enlisted pilots.
July 7, 2017
Today in World War II History—July 7, 1942
US Coast Guard PH-2 seaplane lands to rescue survivors from U-701 – Navy K-type airship overhead had located survivors and dropped raft and supplies. An Army A-29 had sunk U-701 on 7 July 1942 off Wilmington, NC. This rescue took place on 9 July 1942. (US Navy photo)
75 Years Ago—July 7, 1942: US Army Air Force opens Wideawake Field on Ascension Island, opening South Atlantic route for two-engine planes and some fighters (Read more: Of Terns and Planes).
In New Guinea, Australian troops begin march north over the Owen Stanley Range from Port Moresby toward Kokoda.
US Army Air Force sinks its first submarine off the US East Coast—an A-29 Hudson sinks U-701 off Wilmington, NC.
July 6, 2017
Today in World War II History—July 6, 1942
Anne Frank at school, age 6, Frankfurt, Germany, 1929. (public domain via Wikipedia)
75 Years Ago—July 6, 1942: Anne Frank’s family goes into hiding in Amsterdam.
Japanese land on Guadalcanal to build air base.
British First Army activated, will participate in Operation Torch, the invasion of North Africa in November 1942.
Australia begins tea rationing (1 lb/5 weeks).
Map showing Allied and Japanese positions as of 2 July 1942 (US Military Academy)
July 5, 2017
Today in World War II History—July 5, 1942
Destroyed Soviet tank near Voronezh, June 1942 (German Federal Archive: Bild 101I-216-0412-07)
75 Years Ago—July 5, 1942: Margot Frank (Anne’s sister) is summoned to Nazi work camp.
Germans reach River Don near Voronezh in drive for Caucasus oil fields.
