August 2nd, 1941 (FRIDAY)
UNITED KINGDOM:
Submarine HMS P-48 laid down.
Minesweeper HMS Tadoussac, Wedgeport launched.
GERMANY: U-154 commissioned.
U.S.S.R.: German
forces attack Staraya Russa, south of Lake Ilmen, in their drive toward Leningrad.
US Lend-Lease aid begins for the Soviet Union.
Soviet submarine S-11 of the Baltic Fleet is mined off Soelavain Bay and sunk in the Soela Vain Channel. (Mike Yared)(146 and 147)
MEDITERRANEAN SEA: Italian submarine Tembien rammed and sunk off Tunis by light
cruiser HMS Hermione.
CANADA: AMC
HMCS Prince Henry departed Halifax for
Esquimalt.
Minesweeper HMCS Courtenay launched Prince
Rupert, British Columbia.
Minesweeper
HMCS Minas commissioned.
U.S.A.: The first Packard built Rolls Royce Merlin V-1650 aircraft engine is completed.
Light cruiser USS Miami laid down.
Franklin D. Roosevelt"> Roosevelt and his cabinet have a long discussion in a cabinet meeting concerning "ways and means to sell directly or indirectly" 50 to 60 overage destroyers to the British. Everyone agrees "that the survival of the British Isles under German attack might very possibly depend on their (the British) getting these destroyers." Everyone also agrees that legislation to permit the sale of these ships is necessary.