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 Soviet UnionStavka orders Soviet Stalingrad Front split into Stalingrad Front (63rd Army, 21st Army, 62nd Army, 4th Tank Army, 28th Tank Corps) and Southeast Front (64th Army, 51st Army, 1st Guards Army, 57th Army, 13th Tank Corps), to become effective 7 August German summer offensive in Russia, May - November 1942 Stavka orders formation of 1st Guards Army comprising five airborne divisions converted to Guards rifle divisions German summer offensive in Russia, May - November 1942 Russian FrontSoviet 1st Tank Army and 4th Tank Army and 21st Army attacking unsuccessfully in the Don Bend German summer offensive in Russia, May - November 1942 UkraineItalian ambassador Alfieri meets with Hitler at his Vinnitsa headquarters Russo-German War, 1941-1945: Politics and diplomacy Italo-German relations Adolf Hitler GermanyRAF Bomber Command sends 38 aircraft to attack Essen overnight Strategic bombing of Germany and occupied Europe Air operations in Northwest Europe, 1939-1944 Bomber Command: Operations and missions FranceRAF Fighter Command Rodeo operation Air operations in Northwest Europe, 1939-1944 Fighter Command / 2nd Tactical Air Force: Operations and missions Northwest European WatersRAF Bomber Command sends 45 aircraft on minelaying operations overnight Strategic bombing of Germany and occupied Europe Air operations in Northwest Europe, 1939-1944 Bomber Command: Operations and missions United KingdomLuftwaffe aircraft attack Swansea overnight Air operations in Northwest Europe, 1939-1944 Mediterranean SeaU-372 sunk by RN destroyers off Jaffa while en route to land agent near Beirut Naval operations in the Mediterranean, 1939-1942 The U-Boat war, 1939-1945 EgyptGeneral Brooke arrives Cairo by air from UK via Malta North Africa campaigns and the Mediterranean, 1940-1943: Politics and diplomacy Cairo during the war years Field Marshal Sir Alan Brooke Churchill arrives Cairo by air from UK via Gibraltar North Africa campaigns and the Mediterranean, 1940-1943: Politics and diplomacy Cairo during the war years Winston Churchill Sierra LeoneConvoy SL 118 departs Freetown for Liverpool Atlantic convoys Atlantic OceanBelgian vessel Belgian Soldier sunk by U-607 The U-Boat war, 1939-1945 British vessel Richmond Castle sunk by U-176 The U-Boat war, 1939-1945 British vessel Empire Arnold sunk by U-155 The U-Boat war, 1939-1945 United StatesOperation Pastorius: Special military commission finds all eight German saboteurs guilty and sentences them to death United States: Spying and sabotage against the US Operation Pastorius CanadaConvoy SC 95 departs Halifax for Liverpool Atlantic convoys New Hebrides IslandsUSN destroyer Tucker sunk on friendly minefield off Espiritu Santo Naval operations in the Solomon Islands and South Pacific New GuineaGeneral George Kenney takes command of Allied air forces in the Southwest Pacific Air operations in Australia, New Guinea, and the Bismarcks, 1942-1945 General George Kenney JapanJapanese vessel Fukuyama Maru sunk by USN submarine Narwhal off Japan Naval operations in Japanese waters United States submarine war against Japan, 1941-1945 Dates are local to the time zone in which the event occurred, but discrepancies and inconsistencies abound throughout the sources, especially when events ocurred shortly before or after midnight. Entries on file for this date: 20
Argyle. Chronology of World War II Brown. Warship Losses of World War Two Browning. US Merchant Vessel Casualties of World War II Carter and Mueller. Combat Chronology, 1941-1945 Cressman. The Official Chronology of the US Navy in World War II Edelheit and Edelheit. A World in Turmoil Foreman. Fighter Command War Diaries (five volumes) Goralski. World War II Almanac, 1931-1945 Hague. The Allied Convoy System Hammel. Air War Europa Hammel. Air War Pacific Hauner. Hitler: A Chronology of His Life and Time Kay. Chronology: New Zealand in the War, 1939-1946 Middlebrook and Everitt. Bomber Command War Diaries Niestle. German U-Boat Losses during World War II Rohwer. Allied Submarine Attacks of World War Two Rohwer. Axis Submarine Successes of World War Two Rohwer. Chronology of the War at Sea Salmaggi and Pallavisini. 2194 Days of War Sommerville. World War II Day by Day Swain. A Chronology of Australian Armed Forces at War, 1939-45 Taylor. Barbarossa to Berlin (two volumes) Williams. Chronology, 1941-1945 Young. Britain's Sea War Various other Chronology volumes also served as sources. Many additional volumes were consulted for specific topics.
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