24 Aug 1943


- Wilhelm Frick was named Protector of Bohemia and Moravia. ww2dbase [Wilhelm Frick | CPC]
- Heinrich Himmler was appointed as Minister of the Interior of Germany. ww2dbase [Heinrich Himmler | TH]
- In Denmark, bomb incidents and strikes marked growing resistance. ww2dbase [CPC]
- USS Tunny detected a 6-ship Japanese convoy near the Toagel Mlungui Pass in the Palau Islands early in the morning and stalked the convoy for the remainder of the day. ww2dbase [Tunny | CPC]
- The 1st (French) Motorised Infantry Division was created from the 1st Free French Division and was sent to Italy as a part of the French Expeditionary Force in Apr 1944. ww2dbase [AC]
- The Georgian Legion of the German Army was ordered to move from the Eastern Front to the Netherlands. ww2dbase [CPC]
- US Marine Corps Colonel William Brice moved the headquarters of his Fighter Command to the Munda Point airfield on New Georgia in the Solomon Islands. On this date, the responsibility of Commander, Aircraft, New Georgia was also merged under his command. ww2dbase [Solomon Islands Campaign | CPC]
- 1,260 Polish Jewish children from the liquidated Bialystok ghetto in Poland arrived at Theresienstadt Concentration Camp in occupied Czechoslovakia. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Theresienstadt Concentration Camp | TerezĂn, Cechy | CPC]
- Ilse Koch was arrested by the SS for corruption. ww2dbase [Ilse Koch | CPC]
- USS Harder departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her second war patrol. ww2dbase [Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Harder | Honolulu, Oahu | CPC]
- USS Whale damaged an oiler and a freighter in a Japanese convoy 37 kilometers west of Kusagaki Islands, Japan in the East China Sea, hitting them with 2 of 4 torpedoes fired. ww2dbase [Whale | East China Sea | CPC]
- The keel of submarine Spot was laid down at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California, United States. ww2dbase [Mare Island Navy Yard | Spot | Vallejo, California | CPC]



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