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August 3rd, 1942 (MONDAY)

UNITED KINGDOM: Escort carrier HMS Begum laid down.

Minesweeping trawler HMS Graemsay launched.

NORTH SEA: The German submarine U-335 is sunk northeast of the Faeroe Islands, in position 62.48N, 00.12W, by torpedoes from the RN submarine HMS Saracen on her first patrol. There is 1 survivor of the 44-man U-boat crew.

GERMANY: U-286 laid down.

U.S.S.R.: The 4th Panzer Army crosses the Don at Tsimlyansky, as Kletskaya comes under heavy attack.
Army Group B continues the attack on Kletskaya, Russia. The 4th Panzer army has crossed the Don and is advancing east around Kotelnikovo. The 1st Panzer Army attacks from the Kuban east toward Stavropol and south toward Maykop.

EGYPT: British PM Churchill and General Brooke arrive in Cairo. They are on an inspection trip which includes the 8th Army. Churchill is disappointed with the results the 8th has so far achieved given the resources furnished.

CHINA: Shantung: Internecine warfare has broken out among Chinese troops in the Shantung/Kiangsu district. Early this evening the pro-Nationalist commander of the North-east Army. Yu Hsueh-chung, fled after an uprising by 3,000 Communist troops of its 111th Division. The Communist coup was engineered by high-ranking officers, including one who had been under arrest for a similar coup two years ago. The 111th, which wants a merger with the Eight Route Army, accuses Yu of not being prepared to fight the Japanese.

NEW GUINEA: USAAF P-400 Airacobras strafe Oivi and Kokoda.

PACIFIC OCEAN: A U.S. submarine sinks a Japanese transport west-southwest of Truk Atoll,
Caroline Islands.

TERRITORY OF ALASKA: ALEUTIAN ISLANDS: The US 11th Air Force dispatches 3 B-17 Flying Fortresses, 2 B-24s and 1 LB-30 Liberator to fly a bombing and photo reconnaissance mission to Tanaga and Kanaga Islands and also bomb Kiska Island; 4 of the aircraft have mechanical trouble but all return. The USN's Task Force 8, consisting of the heavy cruisers USS Indianapolis (CA-35) and USS Louisville (CA-28); the light cruisers USS Honolulu (CL-48), USS Nashville (CL-43) and USS St Louis (CL-49); and 6 destroyers, sets sail from Kodiak enroute to bombard Kiska.

U.S.A.: Mildred McAffee (Horton) becomes the first woman officer commissioned into the US Naval Reserve.

Aircraft carrier USS Hornet laid down.

ATLANTIC OCEAN: Motor tanker Tricula sunk by U-108 at 11.35N, 56.51W.
At 0305, U-552 fired two torpedoes at Convoy ON-115 east of Cape Race in 45°52N/47°15W and observed a hit aft on a tanker and at the bow of a freighter, both vessels stopped. The GS Walden was damaged and the
Lochkatrine was sunk. One crewmember on GS Walden was killed, but the tanker managed to reach port and was repaired.
At 0401, U-553 attacked Convoy ON-115 and damaged the Belgian Soldier. The ship then fell out of the convoy and was sunk by a coup de grāce from U-607 at 0229 on 4 August. 21 men were lost from 53 crewmembers (24 Belgians) and seven gunners.
The Bombay was reported missing after 5 August 1942. At 1654 on 3 August, U-605 torpedoed and sank a steam trawler of 700 tons. This must have been the Bombay.

 

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