10 Aug 1874
- Jiro Minami was born.
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10 Aug 1889
- Norman Scott was born.
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10 Aug 1908
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
- Winston Churchill and Clementine Hozier became engaged at the Churchill home of Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, England, United Kingdom.
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10 Aug 1911
- The British Parliament passed the Parliament Act 1911 which withdrew from the Lords the right to veto any financial bill originating from the Commons, and reduced the maximum duration of any government to five years.
- George Brett transferred from the Philippine Scouts to the 2nd Cavalry Regiment within the US Army.
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10 Aug 1921
- USS Arizona became the flagship of Battleship Division 7's Rear Admiral Josiah McKean at Balboa, Colombia.
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10 Aug 1928
China
China
- Koji Miyake was named the chief of staff of the Japanese Kwantung Army in northeastern China.
- General Takashi Hishikari was named the commanding officer of the Taiwan Army.
10 Aug 1936
- Cruiser Köln completed operations off Spain.
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10 Aug 1937
- In Spain, the Council of Aragon was dissolved by the Republican Government.
- Japanese Consul General in China demanded the Chinese to withdraw the Peace Preservation Corps from Shanghai due to the death of Lieutenant Isao Oyama at Hongqiao Airport on the previous day. Meanwhile, additional Japanese troops began arriving in Shanghai.
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10 Aug 1938
- The Namita Detachment of the Japanese 11th Army Group and the Japanese 9th Division attacked Ruichang, Jiangxi, China, defended by the Chinese 3rd Army Company and the Chinese 32nd Army Group.
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- The main synagogue at Nürnberg, Germany was destroyed.
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10 Aug 1939
- Reinhard Heydrich ordered SS Officer Alfred Naujocks to fake an attack on a radio station near Gleiwitz, Germany, which was on the border with Poland. "Practical proof is needed for these attacks of the Poles for the foreign press as well as German propaganda", said Heydrich, according to Naujocks.
» In-depth article - Poland responded to Germany's message from the previous day, noting that should a war between the two nations start, it would be German aggression that started it, and Poland could not be blamed.
» In-depth article - Léon Henri Charles Cayla was named the Governor-General of French West Africa.
- Italian Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano departed Rome, Italy for Salzburg in southern Germany (occupied Austria) to meet with his German counterpart Joachim von Ribbentrop.
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10 Aug 1940
- Hermann Göring's Adler Tag offensive against RAF airfields was canceled due to the weather; only reconnaissance patrols and small attacks on isolated trawlers and merchant ships were launched. Overnight, German aircraft mined the coast of Britain. No aircraft were lost by either side on this day.
» In-depth article - German submarine U-56 struck HMS Transylvania 20 miles north of Ireland at 0100 hours with U-56's last torpedo, killing 36. Destroyer HMS Ashanti and several trawlers rescued 300 survivors, and then attempted to tow Transylvania back to port, but Transylvania would sink during the process.
» In-depth article - German occupation government in Luxembourg deemed the French language illegal; the German occupation government in Belgium declared that listening to BBC broadcasts was illegal.
- Romania passed anti-Semitic laws.
- German armed merchant cruiser Widder stopped Finnish sailing ship Killoran 300 miles southwest of the Azores. Most of the German crew were against sinking this old ship built in 1900, Widder's on-board surgeon wanted a dramatic finale for a film he was making, and persuaded Captain Ruckteschell to sink the sailing ship by gunfire after detaining the crew of 18.
- Allied convoy OA-196's Dutch ship Albula and American ship Crescent City collided just north of Scotland; Albula sank with the entire crew taken aboard by destroyer HMS Jaguar.
- Orion detected ship Triona off Brisbane, Australia but determined that she was not fast enough to attack this ship.
» In-depth article - In the United States, President Roosevelt inspected Portsmouth Navy Yard in New Hampshire and Boston Navy Yard in Massachusetts, making the travel aboard presidential yacht Potomac.
» In-depth article - Destroyers USS Walke and USS Wainwright arrived at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
- The Japanese naval blockade of China was expanded to cover southern China.
- The British government announced the withdrawal of all its forces from Shanghai and other concessions in northern China.
- Hans-Joachim Marseille was assigned to I. (Jagd) Lehrgeschwader 2 based in Marck on the northern coast of France.
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- British troop ship SS Neuralia departed Gibraltar, escorted by destroyer HMS Gallant, with 2,000 civilian evacuees bound for the Portuguese island of Madeira 600 miles to the west in the Atlantic Ocean.
- The Italian Naval Staff issued its first operational order of WW2 for a Sep 1940 mission against Alexandria, Egypt and an Oct 1940 mission against Gibraltar.
- Historical document written: German Air-Raids
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10 Aug 1941
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- Franklin Roosevelt and his staff visited HMS Prince of Wales to attend British religious services.
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10 Aug 1942
- Jews of Lvov Ghetto in Ukraine started to be deported to concentration camps; 40,000 were deported within the following 12 days.
» In-depth article - Troops of the German 6.Armee crossed the Don River in southern Russia, reaching the suburbs of Stalingrad.
» In-depth article - Stranded, US Marines prepared artillery and defensive positions at Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. Meanwhile, in Japan, radio broadcast announced that Japanese air attacks had thus far sunk 28 Allied ships in the Guadalcanal area.
» In-depth article - A Mark X emergency identification flare exploded aboard USS S-1, seriously injuring her commanding officer.
» In-depth article - The Pedestal convoy, 13 merchantmen and the tanker Ohio (escorted by fifty-nine warships), departed from Gibraltar for Malta. Lying in wait were twenty-one Axis submarines and some 800 aircraft.
» In-depth article - German troops reached the Krasnodar-Pyatigorsk-Maikop line in southern Russia.
» In-depth article - Kaga was removed from the Japanese Navy list.
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» Tabular Record of Movement - German submarine U-578 disappeared in the Bay of Biscay north of Cape Ortegal, Spain, probably sunk by a Czechoslovakian aircraft when it attacked U-135; all 49 aboard were lost.
- German submarine U-510 damaged British motor tanker Alexia with 3 torpedoes 50 miles east of Antigua at 0215 hours. German submarines U-660 and U-438 attacked Allied convoy SC-94 500 miles west of Ireland; at 1220 hours, U-438 damaged Greek merchant ship Condylis; at 1221 hours, U-660 sank Condylis, sank British merchant ship Empire Reindeer (all 65 aboard survived), British merchant ship Cape Race (all 63 aboard survived), and fatally damaged British merchant ship Oregon (2 were killed, 36 survived); at 1629 hours, U-438 sank the already-abandoned Oregon. At 1850 hours, U-155 sank Dutch merchant ship Strabo with her deck gun northeast of Paramaribo, Suriname; all 13 aboard survived. At 2130 hours, U-600 stopped British sailing vessel Vivian P. Smith with a warning shot from her deck gun 140 miles east of Turks and Caicos Islands; after the crew of 11 abandoned ship, Vivian P. Smith was scuttled by U-600's deck gun. Also on this day, Italian submarine Reginaldo Giuliani sank British merchant ship Medon with her deck gun 1,500 miles east of Trinidad; all 64 aboard survived.
» In-depth article - Japanese cruiser Kako was struck by three torpedoes from USS S-44 90 miles east of Kavieng, New Ireland at 0710 and sank at about 0715 hours; 34 were killed, 582 survived.
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» Tabular Record of Movement - German submarine U-77 sank Palestinian sailing vessel Kharouf with her deck gun off Palestine at 0120 hours.
- British anti-submarine trawler HMS Isley sank Italian submarine Scirè with depth charges 7 miles off Haifa, Palestine; 55 were killed.
» In-depth article - HMS Dianthus rescued survivors of British merchant ships Cape Race, Empire Reindeer, and Oregon in the Atlantic Ocean.
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- At Hashirajima island in Hiroshima Bay, Japan, Admiral Yamamoto convened a meeting aboard Yamato with Vice Admiral Nagumo of First Air Fleet, Vice Admiral Kondo of Second Fleet, and other top Combined Fleet staff officers. Yamamoto discussed his desire to exploit Mikawa's success and the need to protect convoys carrying troops to recapture Guadalcanal.
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» Tabular Record of Movement - Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Sasebo, Japan.
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10 Aug 1943
- A transport of about 3,000 arrived at Auschwitz Concentration Camp from the liquidated ghetto in Sosnowiec, Poland. 110 men and 195 were registered into the camp; the remainder were killed in the gas chambers. On the same day, Auschwitz received 754 sewing machines from the liquidated ghetto of Bedzin, Poland.
» In-depth article - George Patton visited the 93rd Evacuation Hospital in Sicily, Italy and berated Private Paul Bennett for cowardice.
» In-depth article - USS Tunny departed Midway Atoll.
» In-depth article - Bernard Montgomery was awarded the title of Chief Commander of the Legion of Merit of the United States.
» In-depth article - Winston Churchill arrived at Hyde Park, New York, United States to visit Franklin Roosevelt.
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- Operational control of the US Northern Landing Group on New Georgia in the Solomon Islands was passed to the US Army 25th Division, while the US lst Marine Raider Regiment was detached from the Northern Landing Group to join other Marine Corps units at Enogai.
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10 Aug 1944
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- USS Tang attacked but failed to hit a tanker near Omaezaki, Japan.
» In-depth article - US 5th and French 2nd Armored Divisions moved to Alençon, France.
» In-depth article - Japanese 18th Army under Lieutenant General Hatazo Adachi was wiped out by the Americans in the Aitape-New Hollandia area in New Guinea.
» In-depth article - Captain David Jamieson of the UK Royal Norfolk Regiment won the Victoria Cross. Despite being wounded in the eye and arm, he refused to be evacuated as a casualty as he was the only officer remaining functioning, and with only 100 men held off seven repeated attacks by superior forces against his bridgehead over the River Orne, Normandy, France.
- Amagi was commissioned into service.
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» Tabular Record of Movement - Dwight Eisenhower inspected paratroopers of the US 101st Airborne Division at Hunkerford, Hungerford, England, United Kingdom.
» In-depth article - USS Guitarro attacked a Japanese convoy off Luzon, Philippine Islands and sank tanker Shinei Maru; she expended eight torpedoes in this attack and claimed a total of five hits; Guitarro suffered superficial damage from the subsequent depth charging.
» In-depth article - Light carrier Ryuho was assigned to Carrier Division 4 of the 3rd Fleet.
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- US forces declared Guam, Mariana Islands secured.
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- Irako departed Imari Bay, Kyushu, Japan as a part of convoy HI-71.
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» Tabular Record of Movement - Unryu was assigned to 7th Base Air Force Air Attack Force under operational command of Japanese 3rd Air Fleet, although officially she remained with Carrier Division 1 of Japanese 3rd Fleet.
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10 Aug 1945
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- USS Blenny reported sinking six small Japanese craft with the deck gun in the South China Sea off Malaya.
» In-depth article - USS Caiman sank a Japanese schooner by gunfire in the southern South China Sea.
» In-depth article - Faced with the threat of more atomic bombs and the menace of the Soviets, Japan announced that it was willing to surrender provided the future status of the Emperor could be assured.
» In-depth article - ISS Segundo departed for her fifth war patrol in the Sea of Okhotsk off the Kurile Islands.
» In-depth article - USS Carbonero sank two schooners and a sampan with her deck gun in the Gulf of Siam-South China Sea area.
» In-depth article - About 50 P-47 and P-51 fighters of the US 14th Air Force attacked Japanese road and river traffic, railroads, and bridges across a large area in southeastern China.
- 70 American B-29 bombers attacked the arsenal complex near Tokyo, Japan.
» In-depth article - Air Group 87 aircraft from USS Ticonderoga struck Hokkaido, Japan.
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