10 Aug 1943




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- George Patton visited the 93rd Evacuation Hospital in Sicily, Italy and berated Private Paul Bennett for cowardice. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
- Bernard Montgomery was awarded the title of Chief Commander of the Legion of Merit of the United States. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
- Winston Churchill arrived at Hyde Park, New York, United States to visit Franklin Roosevelt. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
- 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. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
- USS Haddock arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii.F14,C68, ww2dbase [Main Article | Facility | CPC]
- 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. ww2dbase [Main Article | Facility | CPC]
- USS Tunny departed Midway Atoll. ww2dbase [Main Article | Facility | CPC]




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