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Aug 2 Lt John F. Kennedy's PT-boat 109 sinks at Solomon islands
John F. Kennedy
George S. Patton
- Aug 3 Nazi occupiers attack city of Orel, leave it on fire
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Aug 4 British premier Winston Churchill travels on the Queen Mary to Canada
Winston Churchill
- Aug 4 Soviet units reach suburbs of Orel
- Aug 4 USAAF bombs Germans in Troina
- Aug 5 Sicily: 3 US A-36's bomb British headquarter
- Aug 5 Soviet forces reconquer Orel and Bjelgorod
- Aug 5 World War II: at around 11 A.M during the Battle of Troina, Mount Etna erupts sending ash and lava miles into the sky
- Aug 6 US 1st Infantry division occupies node Troina Sicily
- Aug 7 Red Army recaptures Bogodukov
- Aug 8 Common Chiefs of staff meet in Quebec
- Aug 8 US amphibians land at St Agata on North coast of Sicily
- Aug 8 Vegetables & fruit rationed in Holland
- Aug 9 Bertolt Brecht's play "Life of Galileo" premieres in Zurich
- Aug 10 Dutch submarine attacks Hertenbeest Island, NW Bali
- Aug 10 US General George Patton calls injured soldier "cowardly"
Adolf Hitler
- Aug 11 Red Army recaptures Tchukujev, at Kharkov
- Aug 11 Richard Strauss' 2nd Horn Concert, premieres
- Aug 11 US amphibians land at Brolo on north coast of Sicily
- Aug 12 Alleged date of the first Philadelphia Experiment test on United States Navy ship USS Eldridge.
- Aug 13 Red army recaptures Spas-Demensk
- Aug 14 -Aug 24th: Quadrant conference over strike in Pacific Ocean
- Aug 14 1st allied air raid on Borneo
- Aug 14 US 45th Division occupies Falcone 40 km outside of Messina
- Aug 15 Allies land on Kiska Aleutians
- Aug 16 1st Long Tom bombs on Italian mainland (from Sicily)
- Aug 16 Bulgarian Tsar Boris III visits Adolf Hitler
- Aug 17 498 British bombers attack Peenemunde (development base for the V weapons)
- Aug 17 Gen Patton enters Messina, completing conquest of Sicily by Allies
- Aug 17 US 8th Air Force loses 60 B-17s during attack on Schweinfurt and Regensburg
- Aug 18 Carl Hubbell wins his 253rd & final game, all with Giants
- Aug 18 Final convoy of Jews from Salonika, Greece, arrives at Auschwitz
- Aug 18 Otto Skorzeny's Heinkel-111 shot down at Sardinia
- Aug 19 Belgian church excommunicates nazi Leon Degrelle
- Aug 19 US air raid on German bases at Gilze-Rijen/Vlissingen
- Aug 21 Gromyko named USSR-ambassador in Washington
- Aug 21 Japan leaves Aleutian Islands
- Aug 22 Soviet troops free Karkov
- Aug 23 Red army recaptures Charkow
- Aug 24 Philadelphia A's drop AL record tying 20th game in a row, win the 2nd game
- Aug 25 10th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 27, Washington 7 (48,471)
- Aug 25 German occupiers impose 72-hour work week
- Aug 25 Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten appointed Supreme Allied Commander in SE Asia
- Aug 25 Red Army under Gen Vatutin recaptures Achtyrka
- Aug 25 US forces overrun New Georgia in Solomon Islands during WW II
- Aug 28 Denmark declares a universal strike against Nazi occupiers
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Aug 28 Benito Mussolini transfered from La Maddalena Sardinia to Gran Sasso
Benito Mussolini