- Aug 1 Sunderland seaplanes sink U-454 & U-383
Historic Event
Aug 2 Lt John F. Kennedy's PT-boat 109 sinks at Solomon islands
- Aug 3 Nazi occupiers attack city of Orel, leave it on fire
Historic Event
Aug 4 British premier Winston Churchill travels on the Queen Mary to Canada
- 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 headquarters
- 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 S. Patton calls injured soldier "cowardly"
Historic Event
Aug 10 Adolf Hitler watches lynching of allied pilots
- Aug 11 Red Army recaptures Tchukujev, at Kharkov
Music Premiere
Aug 11 Richard Strauss' Second 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 from the German army in Kaluga Oblast, Russia
- 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 General 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
Sports History
Aug 18 Giants future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Carl Hubbell wins his 253rd and final game as NY beats Pittsburgh Pirates, 3-2 at the Polo Grounds, NYC
- Aug 18 Otto Skorzeny's Heinkel-111 shot down at Sardinia
- Aug 19 Belgian church excommunicates Nazi collaborator Léon 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
Appointment of Interest
Aug 25 Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten appointed Supreme Allied Commander in SE Asia
Historic Event
Aug 28 Benito Mussolini transferred from La Maddalena Sardinia to Gran Sasso
