19 Sep 1923
  • Hikokichi Ijuin stepped down as the Governor-General of Kwantung Leased Territory in northeastern China.
19 Sep 1930
19 Sep 1931
19 Sep 1936
  • The Spanish Republican submarine B6 was sunk by Nationalist naval forces, led by the destroyer Velasco, off Cape Penas near Santander, Spain.
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19 Sep 1937
  • The 2nd Marine Brigade headquarters and the US 6th Marine Regiment arrived in Shanghai, China. The US Marine Corps presence in Shanghai was now 2,536-strong.
19 Sep 1938
  • The United Kingdom and France recommended Czechoslovakia to cede Sudetenland to Germany.
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19 Sep 1939
  • Germans put down a rebellion in Czechoslovakia.
  • Lavrentiy Beria, head of the NKVD, established a POW Directorate to run camps for 240,000 Polish POWs.
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  • First official British casualty list published to the public.
  • West of Warsaw, Poland, at the bend of the Vistula River, German troops imprisoned 170,000 Polish troops as they surrendered.
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  • Adolf Hitler entered Danzig and again proposed a peace with Britain and France, provided Germany was allowed to retain the territory that Germany had already seized.
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  • Commander of the British Expeditionary Force Lord Gort arrived in France.
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  • The German Army told the SS organization to hold off the rounding up and mass murder of Jews until Dec 1939 when the Army would be out of the area.
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  • En route toward Changsha, Hunan Province, China, Japanese troops used poison gas against Chinese defensive positions along the Sinchiang River.
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  • Zang Shiyi was captured by Japanese troops in Liaoning Province, China.
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19 Sep 1940
  • Wellington, Hampden, and Whitley bombers of the British RAF attacked German invasion barges in ports along the French coast. One Hampden bomber was lost. After the attack, Adolf Hitler ordered the barges to disperse to minimize further losses. Thus far, 214 of the 1,918 barges assembled for the planned invasion had been destroyed by British aerial attacks.
  • British Minister of Labour Ernest Bevin announced that, as of the end of Aug 1940, there were 51,261 registered conscientious objectors in Britain.
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  • Bad weather restricted aerial activity during the day, thus the Germans only launched reconnaissance missions. 5 Ju 88 bombers dispatched on reconnaissance missions were lost, including one that was forced to land at RAF Oakington at 1500 hours due to engine trouble. Overnight, London, England, United Kingdom was bombed several times between 2000 hours and midnight.
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  • British bombers sank German torpedo boat T-3 at Le Havre, France, killing 9 and wounding 12. T-3 would later be raised and repaired.
  • Italian submarines Archimede and Guglielmotti and destroyers Leone, Pantera, Battisti, and Manin searched in the Red Sea for Allied Convoy BN-5. They failed to locate their target.
  • Italian submarine Comandante Faa Di Bruno attacked a ship 700 miles west of Gibraltar without success. Italian submarine Guglielmo sank Spanish trawler Almirante Jose De Carranza in the Bay of Biscay north of Spain; only 1 survived.
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  • Italian submarine Serpente mis-identified Italian submarine Marcantonio Colonna as hostile and fired a torpedo 59 miles south of Italy. The torpedo missed.
19 Sep 1941
  • German troops captured Kiev, Ukraine, along with 600,000 prisoners, 2,500 tanks, and 1,000 artillery pieces.
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  • Japanese troops crossed the Milo River during advance on Changsha.
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  • Lord Woolton called the black market in Britain "a thorn in our side".
  • German submarine U-74 sank Canadian corvette HMCS Lévis of Allied convoy SC-44 125 miles east of Iceland at 0603 hours; 18 were killed, 40 survived). At 1433 hours, German submarine U-372 attacked the same convoy 100 miles east of Iceland, sinking already-damaged British ship Baron Pentland; 2 were killed, 39 survived).
  • After sundown, Italian submarine Sciré launched three manned-torpedoes into Gibraltar Harbor, which sank oiler RFA Denbydale, sank oil storage tanker Fiona Shell (killing 1), and damaged cargo ship Durham. All six Italian personnel manning the three torpedoes swam to Spain and would eventually return to Italy as heroes.
  • British cruisers HMS Ajax, HMS Neptune, and HMS Hobart arrived in Alexandria, Egypt after delivering supplies to Tobruk, Libya and began to embark troops of the UK 70th Infantry Division.
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  • Light cruiser Voroshilov bombarded Axis troop positions near Sevastopol, Ukraine.
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19 Sep 1942
  • The Allied attack on Jalo, Libya was called off.
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  • The US Marine Corps Air Station, Eagle Mountain Lake was established at Fort Worth, Texas, United States under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Harold Leo. It was to function as a glider training base.
19 Sep 1943
  • Italian resistance forced German troops off the island of Sardinia, Italy.
  • John Basilone participated in a bond tour event in his home town of Raritan and the neighboring town of Somerville in New Jersey, United States.
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  • Orde Wingate arrived in Delhi, India.
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  • 47 Polish prisoners of war attempted to escape from the Oflag IV-B camp at Dössel-Warburg, Germnay; 9 would make it to neutral territory, but the remaining 38 would be captured and sent to the Buchenwald Concentration Camp for execution.
  • USS S-28 fired a torpedo, and missed, at what was believed to be an unescorted freighter. The freighter turned out to be a Japanese warship, which attacked with depth charges for 10 minutes without causing any damage. The warship departed after one hour of unsuccessful detection. At 1916 hours, she detected the coverted gunboat Katsura Maru Number Two; she attacked the Japanese ship at 1943, registering two hits, and sank the ship at 1946 hours. S-28 dove in anticipationg of a depth charge attack which did not take place.
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  • Submarine Gabilan was launched at Groton, Connecticut, United States, sponsored by the wife of Rear Admiral Jules James.
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  • Photos dated 19 Sep 1943
    African-American men of US 34th Construction Battalion constructing prefabricated steel warehouse at Halavo Seaplane Base, Florida Island, Solomon Islands, 19 Sep 1943Launching of USS Gabilan, Groton, Connecticut, United States, 19 Sep 1943
19 Sep 1944
  • Wing Commander Guy Gibson VC, the leader of the Dambusters raid in 1943, was killed when his aircraft crashed near Steenbergen, the Netherlands.
  • British Eighth Army liberated the Republic of San Marino.
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  • The Belgian Parliament met for the first time since May 1940.
  • In the Netherlands, British airborne troopers defended against heavy German attacks in Arnhem while other troops captured Veldhoven.
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  • While flying a Dakota aircraft on a supply run for British troops at Arnhem, the Netherlands, Flight Lieutenant David Lord flew several runs over the drop zone despite the starboard wing being hit and became aflame. Having dropped all supplies, he ordered his crew to bail out while he made no attempt to jump, remaining in the pilot's seat to keep the aircraft steady. The aircraft eventually exploded in mid-war. Lord was later awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross medal.
  • Joseph Stilwell personally handed Chiang Kaishek a message from Franklin Roosevelt which noted that Stilwell was to be given unrestricted powers in China.
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  • Submarine Macabi was launched, sponsored by the wife of Rear Admiral Arthur S. Carpender.
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  • Destroyer Yuzuki broke off from Convoy HI-75 and sailed for Manila, Luzon, Philippine Islands.
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  • Photos dated 19 Sep 1944
    Four men of the 1st Paratroop Battalion, British 1st Airborne Division, took cover in a shell hole outside Arnhem, Netherlands, 17-25 Sep 1944British infantry carrying assault boats in preparation for crossing the Meuse-Escaut canal at Lille-St Hubert, Belgium, 19 Sep 1944A heavily loaded Universal carrier during the advance of the British 3rd Division, the Netherlands, 19 Sep 1944Montgomery and Ramsey at Montgomery
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19 Sep 1945
  • Lord Haw Haw, William Joyce, was sentenced to death in Britain for treason.
  • The Congress Party of India began negotiating with Britain regarding independence.
  • The Chinese-American Composite Wing was disbanded after producing 5 American and 3 Chinese aces.
  • USS Pompon arrived at New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.
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19 Sep 1949
  • The Fairey Gannet aircraft, built to a Royal Navy requirement for a carrier-borne aircraft that could both hunt and kill submarines, took its first flight.

Timeline Section Founder: Thomas Houlihan
Contributors: Alan Chanter, C. Peter Chen, Thomas Houlihan, David Stubblebine
Special Thanks: Rory Curtis

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