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• Oppenhheimer was selected to head the atomic bomb research efforts. ww2dbase [Robert Oppenheimer | Operation Trinity and Manhattan Project | CPC]
• With the US High Command threatening to withdraw entirely from the European theatre of war, President Franklin Roosevelt interceded and informed Prime Minister Winston Churchill that he now accepted the British point of view regarding delaying the opening of a Second Front in North West Europe until 1943 or 1944. At the same time he agreed to a proposed Anglo-American landing in French North Africa later in the year. ww2dbase [Operation Torch | CPC, AC]
• The repair work on light cruiser Voroshilov completed. ww2dbase [Voroshilov | CPC]
• Canadian destroyer HMCS St. Croix sank German submarine U-90 560 miles east of St. John's, Newfoundland; all 44 aboard were killed. ww2dbase [Second Happy Time | CPC]
• German submarine U-77 sank Syrian sailboat Toufic El Rahman with her deck gun 30 miles east of Cape Greco, Cyprus at 1817 hours; all aboard survived. ww2dbase [CPC]

• Giuseppe Finzi, while at sea in the Atlantic Ocean at 0115 hours, was ordered to provide 30 tons of fuel to fellow Italian submarine Morosini. The rendezvous was to be 27 Jul 1942. At 0130 hours, Morisini reported in on her position and supply status. ww2dbase [Giuseppe Finzi | Morosini | CPC]

• USS S-44 departed Brisbane, Australia for her third war patrol. ww2dbase [S-44 | Brisbane, Queensland | CPC]

• USS S-43 surfaced in the Feni Islands to pick up Flight Officer Cecil John Trevelyan Mason of the Royal Australian Air Force, but failed to make contact with Mason, who had been captured by the Japanese. After several attempts to contact him, the submarine ultimately gave up and set sail for Brisbane, Australia. ww2dbase [S-43 | Feni Islands | CPC]
• Tenryu arrived at Rabaul, New Britain. ww2dbase [Tenryu | Rabaul, New Britain | CPC]

• Company B of Australian 39th Battalion ambushed 500 Japanese troops at Gorari Creek along the Kokoda Trail in Australian Papua; after killing 15, the company fell back two miles to Oivi. ww2dbase [New Guinea-Papua Campaign, Phase 2 | Oivi | CPC]

• USS Narwhal sank Japanese guard boat Shinsei Maru No. 83, merchant ship Nissho Maru, and merchant ship Kofuji Maru with her deck gun between Hokkaido and Kurile Islands in northern Japan. ww2dbase [Narwhal | CPC]
• Nachi entered the drydock at Yokosuka, Japan. ww2dbase [Yokosuka Naval Arsenal | Nachi | Yokosuka, Kanagawa | CPC]

• German SS Wiking Division captured the airfield near Rostov-on-Don, Russia while German 125th Infantry Division entered the city center. ww2dbase [Caucasus Campaign | Rostov-on-Don, Rostov | CPC]
• Allied convoy PQ-17 arrived at Arkhangelsk, Russia. Also arriving Arkhangelsk were destroyers HMS Marne, HMS Martin, HMS Middleton, and HMS Blankney, carrying ammunition and other war supplies. ww2dbase [Arctic Convoys | Arkhangelsk | CPC]

• Neutral Argentinian motor tanker Victoria, damaged by German submarine U-201 in Apr 1942 and repaired at New York, New York, United States, was requisitioned by the US War Shipping Administration as the cost of the repairs had not been paid by either Argentina or Germany. ww2dbase [New York | HM]

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