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• Eleanor Roosevelt lost her father to alcoholism. ww2dbase [Eleanor Roosevelt | CPC]

• Jean Leith-Marshall was born in the United Kingdom. ww2dbase [Jean Knox | England | CPC]

• Morgan Adams transited the Panama Canal aboard his pleasure boat, and made the first toll payment for the use of the canal. ww2dbase [Panama Canal | CPC]

14 Aug 1914 Interactive Map

• Remy Van Lierde was born in Overboelare, Belgium. ww2dbase [Remy Van Lierde | CPC]

• Heinrich Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. ww2dbase [Heinrich | Copenhagen | CPC]

• Joseph Rochefort applied for the transfer to the United States Naval Reserve Flying Corps; this request would soon be denied. ww2dbase [Joseph Rochefort | CPC]

• Dr. William Keen diagnosed Franklin Roosevelt as having a blood clot in his spine. ww2dbase [Franklin Roosevelt | CPC]

• Duguay-Trouin was launched at Brest, France. ww2dbase [Duguay-Trouin | Brest, Bretagne | CPC]

14 Aug 1923 Interactive Map

• Captain R. Elliot was named the commanding officer of HMS Hermes, replacing Captain C. P. Talbot. ww2dbase [Hermes | CPC]

• Köln departed Shanghai, China. ww2dbase [Köln | Shanghai | CPC]

• Fleet escort ship F5 was launched at the Krupp Germania Werft yard in Kiel, Germany. ww2dbase [Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft | F5 | Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein | CPC]

• Franklin Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law at 1530 hours, which aimed to provide protection against poverty related to old age, unemployment, and disability. ww2dbase [Franklin Roosevelt | Washington | CPC]

14 Aug 1935 Interactive Map

• Spanish Nationalist forces, drawn from the Army of Africa and led by Colonel Juan Yague, captured Badajoz, Spain. The two parts of Nationalist Spain were now linked. ww2dbase [The Spanish Civil War | AC]

• Franklin Roosevelt made a speech at Chautauqua, New York, United States, in which he stated "I hate war". ww2dbase [Franklin Roosevelt | Chautauqua, New York | CPC]

• After capturing Bilbao the Spanish Nationalist forces in the north of Spain switched their offensive towards Santander. The Nationalists, who were led by General Fidel Dávila, advanced westward through the Cantabrian Mountains. Spanish Republican resistance was weak, despite the large number of troops General Mariano Gamir Ulibarri had under his command, because of poor training and a shortage of weapons. ww2dbase [The Spanish Civil War | AC]
• Henley was commissioned into service. ww2dbase [Henley | CPC]

• 18 Type 96 G3M bombers of the Japanese Kanoya Air Group took off from the Matsuyama Airfield in Taihoku (now Songshan Airport in Taipei), Taiwan to bomb Jianqiao Airfield at Hangzhou in Zhejiang Province and Guangde Airfield in Anhui Province in China. Fighters of the Chinese 4th Pursuit Group, led by Captain Gao Zhihang, rose to intercept from Jianqiao and shot down 3 bombers without any losses. Cheng Xiaoyu's 22nd Squadron, also of the Chinese 4th Pursuit Group, rose to meet the other group attacking Guangde Airfield, shooting down another. Anti-aircraft crews claimed a further two bombers destroyed. Gao's downing was the first Republic of China Air Force victory of WW2. In 1939, the Chinese Nationalist government would declare 14 Aug as a holiday, Air Force Day, as an instrument to raise morale. ww2dbase [Bombing of Shanghai, Chongqing, and other Cities | Jianqiao Airfield | Gao Zhihang | Hangzhou, Zhejiang | CPC]
• The Manchukuo Film Association Limited was established in the Japanese-sponsored puppet state of Manchukuo; it was a joint-venture between the government of Manchukuo and the South Manchurian Railway Company. ww2dbase [CPC]
• Liu Cuigang, commanding officer of the 24th Pursuit Squadron of the Chinese 5th Pursuit Group flying a Hawk III fighter, claimed the squadron's first victory, an E8N seaplane, near Shanghai, China; Japanese records showed no E8N aircraft lost on that date. ww2dbase [Liu Cuigang | Shanghai | CPC]
• Liu Zhesheng, flying a Hawk III fighter, shot down a G3M bomber of Japanese Kanoya Air Group near Shanghai, China. He shared this victory with fellow pilot Li Guidan or his wingman Lieutenant Wang Wenhua. ww2dbase [Second Battle of Shanghai | Liu Zhesheng | Shanghai | CPC]
• A Chinese aircraft, en route to attack Japanese warships off Shanghai, China, accidentally released a bomb over the international section of Shanghai. The bomb hit the Cathay and Palace Hotels near the waterfront at 1627 hours, killing many Chinese and western civilians. The killed included American citizens Robert Reischauer, Frank Rawlinson, Hubert Honigsberg, and Mrs. Honigsberg. ww2dbase [Second Battle of Shanghai | Shanghai | CPC]

14 Aug 1937 Interactive Map

• Germany sent a message to its embassy in Moscow, Russia, ordering the ambassador to push Soviet leader Joseph Stalin to make a quick decision on the future of Soviet-German relationship. In Russia, the British-French delegation negotiated with Kliment Voroshilov for a potential treaty to contain German aggression; Voroshilov wanted the western powers to convince Poland to agree to allow Soviet troops to move into Polish territory to counterattack a potential German invasion, but the British and the French knew it was something the Polish leadership was adamantly against. ww2dbase [Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact | CPC]
• Adolf Hitler announced to his top military commanders that Germany was to enter in a war with Poland at the end of Aug 1939, and that the United Kingdom and France would not enter the fray, especially if Poland could be decisively wiped out in a week or two. ww2dbase [Invasion of Poland | CPC]

• Joseph Stilwell disembarked USAT Grant in the United States. ww2dbase [Joseph Stilwell | CPC]

• Roosevelt approved what later became the Two-Ocean Navy Act. ww2dbase [Two-Ocean Navy Act | CPC]
• The British Ministry of Home Security announced that parachutes had been found in Derbyshire, Yorkshire, and Scotland, though there were no evidence of German troops on British soil. ww2dbase [CPC]
• British and Commonwealth troops engaged in heavy fighting with Italian forces near Berbera, British Somaliland; British commander in area Major General Godwin-Austen requested permission to fall back into Berbera and to prepare for evacuation. ww2dbase [Invasion of British Somaliland | CPC]
• On his way to ignite a coup in the Irish Republic and an uprising against Ulster, IRA Chief of Staff, Sean Russell, died aboard a German U-boat of a perforated ulcer. Trained in sabotage by the Germans, he was buried at sea wrapped in a Swastika flag. ww2dbase [AC]
• Cloudy weather prevented Germans from launching large scale raids against Britain early in the day as planned. At 1200 hours, 300 German aircraft flew over the Dover Strait and attacked Dover and Folkestone in southern England, which drew out the No. 65 Squadron RAF for defense, leaving RAF Manston undefended during the attack that came shortly afterwards (though anti-aircraft gun crews were able to shoot down two Bf 110 fighters). At 1545 hours, RAF Middle Wallop in Hampshire was bombed by Ju 87 dive bombers and He 111 medium bombers, killing 3 airmen and 1 civilian. In Portland Harbour, British sloop HMS Kingfisher and tug Carbon were damaged by bombing. On this day, the Germans lost 30 aircraft while the British lost 3 Spitfire fighters and 5 Hurricane fighters. ww2dbase [Battle of Britain | CPC]
• German submarine U-59 sank British ship Betty 15 miles north of Ireland at 2034 hours, killing 30. 4 survivors were later rescued by British anti-submarine trawler HMS Man o' War. ww2dbase [First Happy Time | CPC]
• British destroyer HMS Malcolm, destroyer HMS Verity, and three motor torpedo boats attacked a German convoy of 6 trawlers escorted by three motor torpedo boats off Texel Island, the Netherlands. One German motor torpedo boat and one German trawler were sunk. ww2dbase [CPC]
• Orion spent most of this day looking for her Ar 196 floatplane which had been forced to make a water landing due to mechanical issues while conducting reconnaissance on Nouméa, New Caledonia. The aircraft was found and recovered. ww2dbase [Orion | CPC]
• Destroyers USS Walke and USS Wainwright departed Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for Bahia, Brazil. ww2dbase [CPC]
• Adolf Hitler heard from Walther von Brauchitsch, who insisted that the German Army would like to attack Britain on a wide front with four or more main landing sites. ww2dbase [Walther von Brauchitsch | CPC]
• Oberst Alois Stoeckl, the commanding officer of the German Kampfgeschwader 55 wing, was killed in action. ww2dbase [CPC]
• U-56 ended her eleventh patrol. ww2dbase [U-56 | CPC]

• Jaguar, Kondor, Falke, T2, T7, and T8 began escorting minelayers in the southwestern North Sea. ww2dbase [First Happy Time | Kondor | Falke | Jaguar | T2 | T7 | T8 | North Sea | CPC]
• Alessandro Malaspina sighted smoke on the horizon in the Atlantic Ocean at 1150 hours. She closed in, sighted a freighter, and fired two torpedoes at 1340 hours at the distance of 3,000 meters, both of which missed. The freighter returned fired two rounds at the submarine as she escaped the engagement. ww2dbase [First Happy Time | Alessandro Malaspina | CPC]

• US Navy Asiatic Fleet chief Admiral Thomas C. Hart arrived in Shanghai, China aboard USS Porpoise. Upon arrival, he transferred his flag to yacht Isabel. ww2dbase [Porpoise | Shanghai | CPC]

• Maggiore Baracca departed La Spezia, Italy at 0708 hours for exercises, returning at 1335 hours. ww2dbase [Maggiore Baracca | La Spezia, Liguria | CPC]
• Comandante Faà di Bruno departed La Spezia, Italy at 0830 hours for exercises, returning at 1645 hours. ww2dbase [Comandante Faà di Bruno | La Spezia, Liguria | CPC]

14 Aug 1940 Interactive Map

• Roosevelt and Churchill signed the Atlantic Charter. ww2dbase [Atlantic Charter Conference | TH]
• Overnight, British bombers attacked railway yards at Hanover, Germany. ww2dbase [Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities | CPC]
• The Soviet transport ship Sibir, carrying 2,500 wounded soldiers from Estonia, was bombed by German aircraft. There were few survivors. ww2dbase [AC]
• Edmund Herring was promoted to the temporary rank of major general and was given command of Australian 6th Division in Egypt. ww2dbase [Edmund Herring | CPC]

• Comandante Cappellini departed Bordeaux, France at 1145 hours and arrived at Le Verdon-sur-Mer, Aquitaine, France at 1700 hours. ww2dbase [Comandante Cappellini | Bordeaux, Aquitaine | CPC]

• Tatsuta Maru arrived at Singapore and departed later on the same day; she now carried almost 1,000 interned Allied personnel. ww2dbase [Tatsuta Maru | CPC]
• The first P-38 Lightning kill in the European Theatre occurred when the 33rd Fighter Squadron flying from Iceland destroyed a marauding Fw 200 maritime patrol bomber. ww2dbase [P-38 Lightning | AC]
• Light carrier Hosho was assigned to the Mobile Force Stand By Force. ww2dbase [Hosho | CPC]
• The Japanese Navy changed its radio code. It was suspected, but not proven, that the code was changed in response to suspicions that the Americans had broken the previous code scheme. ww2dbase [CPC]
• USS Seawolf sank Japanese passenger-cargo ship Hachigen Maru in the Sibitu Passage between Borneo and Sulu, Philippine Islands. ww2dbase [Seawolf | CPC]
• Japanese radio broadcast announced that Japanese air attacks had thus far sunk 29 Allied warships, 11 transports in the Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands area at a mere cost of 21 aircraft; in actuality, the Allied had only lost 6 ships. ww2dbase [Guadalcanal Campaign | CPC]
• Election for the camp advisory council took place at the the Portland Assembly Center in Oregon, United States. ww2dbase [Portland Assembly Center | CPC]

• German submarine U-598 attacked Allied convoy TAW-12 50 miles northeast of Pueto Padre, Cuba at 1155 hours, sinking British freighter Michael Jebsen (7 were killed, 40 survived), sinking British tanker Empire Corporal (6 were killed, 49 survived), and damaging British tanker Standella (6 were killed, 52 survived). ww2dbase [Second Happy Time | CPC]
• After three days in stormy weather, survivors of sunken steam tanker Mirlo, in three lifeboats, got separated in the Atlantic Ocean. ww2dbase [HM]
• Reginaldo Giuliani sank British freighter Sylvia de Larrinaga 700 miles southwest of Cape Verde Islands at 1930 hours, killing 3 of 53, including the master. ww2dbase [Second Happy Time | Reginaldo Giuliani | CPC]
• South of Saint Helena island, German armed merchant cruiser Michel sank British freighter Arabistan with gunfire; 66 were killed. ww2dbase [Second Happy Time | Michel | CPC]

• Edmund Herring was promoted to the temporary rank of lieutenant general and was given command of Australian II Corps at Esk, Queensland, Australia. ww2dbase [Edmund Herring | Esk, Queensland | CPC]

• The B-17E Flying Fortress aircraft "Chief Seattle from the Pacific North West" was launched from Port Moresby, Australian Papua for a reconnaissance mission over Rabaul, New Britain, but the aircraft became missing shortly after launch and was never found. This aircraft was paid for by donations from civilians of the state of Washington in northwestern United States. ww2dbase [B-17 Flying Fortress | Port Moresby | CPC]
• Australian 39th Battalion fell back 4 miles from Deniki to Isurava in Australian Papua after learning Japanese troops had infiltrated its rear, which turned out to be faulty intelligence. To the north, 3,000 Japanese troops of the 14th Naval Construction Unit and 15th Naval Construction Unit arrived at Buna, tasked with building major naval facilities. ww2dbase [New Guinea-Papua Campaign, Phase 2 | CPC]
• Throughout the day, rough seas crashed over USS S-39, which was stuck on submerged rocks off Yela (Rossel) Island of Louisiade Archipelago. ww2dbase [S-39 | Yela | CPC]

• 7,000 "stateless" Jews were arrested in France by German authorities. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | CPC]

• USS New Mexico arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. ww2dbase [New Mexico | Honolulu, Oahu | CPC]

• Gato-class submarine USS Silversides attacked a heavily laden tanker of about 7,000 tons off southern Honshu, Japan. The submarine scored one torpedo hit but final results were not observed. Silversides then endured a depth charge attack that lasted for over an hour. ww2dbase [Silversides | Kii Suido | DS]

• British destroyer HMS Penn, destroyer HMS Bramham, destroyer HMS Ledbury, and minesweeper HMS Rye began towing the previously abandoned tanker Ohio of Allied convoy Pedestal, still carrying her cargo of fuel. Later on the same day, heavily damaged British freighter Brisbane Star reached Malta at 1615 hours. ww2dbase [Malta Campaign | CPC]

• Faye Lazebnik's parents, sisters, and younger brother were rounded up and killed; they shared the fate of about 1,850 other Jews from the Lenin Ghetto in Poland (now Belarus). ww2dbase [Faye Lazebnik | Lenin | CPC]

• In the Caucasus region of southern Russia, German troops crossed the Kuban River near Krasnodar. ww2dbase [Caucasus Campaign | Krasnodar, Krasnodar Krai | TH, CPC]
• Troops of German 6th Army and 4th Panzer Army set fire to wooded areas west of the Don River in southern Russia in an attempt to drive out the remnants of the surrounded Soviet 62nd Army. ww2dbase [Battle of Stalingrad | CPC]

14 Aug 1942 Interactive Map

• USS S-28 set a course for the Aleutian Islands. ww2dbase [S-28 | CPC]
• USS Bailey arrived at San Diego, California. ww2dbase [Bailey | DS]
• USS Nicholas departed Tulagi as an escort for troop transports bound for Vella Lavella, Solomon Islands. ww2dbase [Nicholas | DS]

• A Japanese reconnaissance aircraft discovered the new US airfield at Tsili-Tsili, Australian Papua. ww2dbase [Tsili-Tsili | CPC]
• 433rd Fighter Squadron (flying P-38 aicraft) and the headquarters unit of USAAF 475th Fighter Group was transferred to Dobodura Airfield, Australian Papua. ww2dbase [Dobodura Airfield | Dobodura | CPC]

• US Marine Corps Brigadier General Francis Mulcahy moved the headquarters of Aircraft, New Georgia from Rendova island to the Munda Point airfield on New Georgia in the Solomon Islands. ww2dbase [Solomon Islands Campaign | CPC]
• US Marine Corps fighters at Munda, New Georgia were deemed operational. ww2dbase [Munda, New Georgia | CPC]

• The Italian government declared Rome an open city. ww2dbase [Operation Avalanche | Rome | TH]

• USS Wahoo attacked three medium freighters in the Sea of Japan; the torpedo missed. ww2dbase [Wahoo | CPC]

• The German troops at Belgorod, Russia broke out of the region after suffering 20,000 killed. ww2dbase [Battle of Belgorod | Belgorod | CPC]

• Erich von Manstein placed General Otto Wöhler in charge of the defense of Kharkov, Ukraine. ww2dbase [Fourth Battle of Kharkov | Kharkov | CPC]

• Joseph Rochefort received orders to go to Eureka, California, United States for the commissioning of the 5th section of floating drydock ABSD-2. ww2dbase [Joseph Rochefort | CPC]

14 Aug 1943 Interactive Map

• USS Tang attacked a Japanese armed yacht with her deck gun. ww2dbase [Tang | CPC]
• USS Croaker sank a Japanese freighter with 2 of 6 torpedoes fired. ww2dbase [Croaker | CPC]
• British troops launched Operation Tractable towards Falaise, France, preceded by 800 bombers. 150 Polish soldiers were killed as the second of the three waves of RAF Lancaster bombers released their bombs too early. ww2dbase [Normandy Campaign, Phase 2 | TH]
• Soviet forces launched an assault from their Vistula bridgeheads in Poland. ww2dbase [Operation Bagration | TH]
• USS Gar began her thirteenth war patrol. ww2dbase [Gar | CPC]
• USS Ray continued to attack a small Japanese convoy off Borneo, Dutch East Indies, sinking tanker Zuisho Maru (hitting her with 3 of 3 torpedoes fired) and damaged a transport (hitting her with 1 of 3 torpedoes fired). ww2dbase [Ray | CPC]
• USS Nicholas departed Tulagi, Solomon Islands bound for the Treasury Islands, Solomon Islands. ww2dbase [Nicholas | DS]

• HMS Mauritius sank German minesweeper Sperrbrecher 157 off France. ww2dbase [Mauritius | CPC]

• The USAAF 306th Bomb Group flying from RAF Thurleigh launched a bombing raid against Stuttgart, Germany but could not bomb due to weather. Instead, they struck a target of opportunity at the airfield at Florennes, Belgium. ww2dbase [Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities | RAF Thurleigh | Stuttgart | DS]

• The keel of landing ship No. 143 was laid down by Kawanami Kogyo. ww2dbase [No. 101/103-class | CPC]

• USS Cod sank Japanese landing ship No. 129 in the Banda Sea. ww2dbase [Cod | Banda Sea | CPC]

• 26 Allied aircraft attempted to drop supplies for resistance fighters in Warsaw, Poland. All of them failed to drop in their primary destinations. 3 aircraft of No. 178 Squadron RAF. 1 aircraft of No. 148 (Special Duties) Squadron RAF, 3 aircraft of No. 31st Squadron RAAF, and 1 aircraft of No. 1586 (Polish Special Duties) Flight RAF were lost. The supplies, seemingly dropped in inconvenient locations, were mostly retrieved by Polish resistance fighters. ww2dbase [Warsaw Uprising | Warsaw | CPC]

• The US 127th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment became operational; at the end of the V-1 attacks the regiment had accounted for 56 of the flying bombs. A V-1 flying bomb brought down by British guns tragically fell on Twiss Road, Hythe in Kent in southern Britain. It destroyed houses and killed a family of 5 also injuring a further 17 some seriously. Flight Officer Peter Graham almost lost his life when diving down from 12,000 feet he levelled up too close to his target; the slip stream threw his Spitfire fighter over, but he managed to recover, only to see his target, a V-1 flying bomb, fly between the wires of the balloon defence. ww2dbase [V-Weapons Campaign | Vergeltungswaffe 1 | England | HM]
• Winston Churchill ordered Anthony Eden to against request assistance from Joseph Stalin for the resistance fighters in Warsaw, Poland. ww2dbase [Warsaw Uprising | Winston Churchill | Anthony Eden | London, England | CPC]

• USS Snook arrived at Midway Atoll, ending her sixth war patrol. ww2dbase [Midway Bases | Snook | Midway | CPC]

14 Aug 1944 Interactive Map

• Lieutenant Commander Hugh Patrick Davies was made the commanding officer of HMS LST-412, replacing H. D. Bittleston. ww2dbase [LST-412 | CPC]

• From Chongqing, China, Chiang Kaishek sent a cable to Mao Zedong, inviting the Chinese Communist leader to Chongqing, China for talks. Mao, who saw that talks would gain him little, insisted that the Nationalists must allow the Communists to take official parts in the Japanese surrender, something Chiang was likely to reject. ww2dbase [Chiang Kaishek | Chongqing | CPC]
• In northeastern China, Mongolian leaders Hafungga and Buyanmandakhu began forming a para-military force consisted of former cadets of Xing'an (Postal Map: Hsingan) Province Military Academy, aligned with the Soviet puppet nation of Mongolia. ww2dbase [Xing'an | CPC]

• Sukarno and Mohammad Hatta arrived in Batavia (now Jakarta), Dutch East Indies and learned of the Japanese surrender. ww2dbase [Batavia, Java | CPC]

• France announced objections against Thailand's application to become a member of the United Nations. ww2dbase [Paris | CPC]

• In Saigon, Cochinchina, French Indochina, a demonstration of more than 50,000 people protested against th potential return of the French. A National United Front was declared during the demonstration. ww2dbase [Saigon, Cochinchine | CPC]
• In Hue, Annam, French Indochina, Emperor Bao Dai tore up the treaties signed with the French in 1862 and 1874 and reclaimed Cochinchina as Vietnamese sovereign territory. ww2dbase [Bao Dai | Hue, Annam | CPC]
• Son Ngoc Thanh was named the prime minister of Cambodia, French Indochina. He called for the resistance against the imminent return of the French. ww2dbase [Phnom Penh, Cambodia | CPC]

• USS Hackleback departed Guam, Mariana Islands for her third war patrol. ww2dbase [Hackleback | CPC]

• More than 150 Burmese civilians held by the Japanese on Tarmugli in the Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal were shot or bayoneted by their captors. ww2dbase [Tarmugli, Andaman and Nicobar Islands | AC]

• Air Group 87 aircraft from USS Ticonderoga struck Tokyo, Japan. ww2dbase [Ticonderoga | Tokyo | DS]
• The last Japanese aircraft destroyed prior to Emperor Showa's radio address was a C6N1 Saiun aircraft, shot down about five minutes before the announcement. ww2dbase [C6N Saiun | CPC]
• The Japanese Imperial Council accepted Emperor Showa's order to surrender to the Allies powers' surrender terms. In turn, Prime Minister Kantaro Suzuki notified the Allies that Japan was accepting the Potsdam Declaration. ww2dbase [Japan's Surrender | AC, CPC]
• Korechika Anami practiced kendo for the entire afternoon while he considered the war situation. ww2dbase [Korechika Anami | Tokyo | CPC]

• USS Whale arrived at Saipan, Mariana Islands. ww2dbase [Whale | Saipan | CPC]

• Seven aircraft of the Oita Detachment, 701st Air Group, Japanese Navy made the last operational suicide sortie of the war, led by Admiral Matome Ugaki, commander of the 5th Air fleet. ww2dbase [Matome Ugaki | AC]
• USS Carbonero sank a junk with her deck gun in the Gulf of Siam-South China Sea area. ww2dbase [Carbonero | South China Sea | CPC]
• In the evening, I-401 arrived at the rendezvous point south of Ulithi, Caroline Islands but did not find I-400; at this time, I-400 was actually at the incorrect location 1,000 miles to the east. ww2dbase [I-401 | CPC]

• USS Ray departed US Naval Base Subic Bay, Philippine Islands. ww2dbase [Ray | Olongapo, Zambales | CPC]
• USS Tamalpais departed Leyte Gulf to join replenishment group TG30.8 supporting the fleet southeast of Japan. ww2dbase [Tamalpais | Lauaan Bay, Leyte | DS]

• Chinese Foreign Minister Song Ziwen informed US Ambassador in Moscow, Russia W. Averell Harriman that China and the Soviet Union had come to an agreement on all major issues being negotiated for the Sino-Soviet Friendship Treaty, and it was about to be signed into effect. ww2dbase [Song Ziwen | Moscow | CPC]
• The Sino-Soviet Friendship Treaty was signed in Moscow, Russia by Song Ziwen and Vyacheslav Molotov. The USSR recognized the Nationalist Party as the sole ruling entity in China, and pledged to respect Chinese sovereignty and Chinese borders. China allowed the Soviets effective control of Dairen, Port Arthur, and various regions of northeast China. The Chinese delegation was surprised with the Soviet demand for China to cede Outer Mongolia as an independent nation; Song Ziwen, leader of the delegation, reluctantly agreed, knowing that the Soviet pledge to recognize the Nationalists was a greater gain. The Soviets also forced China to agree to a future referendum in Inner Mongolia, allow the people to choose whether they would join independent Mongolia. ww2dbase [Song Ziwen | Moscow | CPC]
• The Soviet Union announced objections against Thailand's application to become a member of the United Nations. ww2dbase [Moscow | CPC]

• The US government ordered the resumption of civilian automobile production. ww2dbase [CPC]
• Escort carrier USS Card arrived at San Diego, California from Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. ww2dbase [Card | San Diego, California | DS]

14 Aug 1945 Interactive Map

• Sanborn was decommissioned from service. ww2dbase [Sanborn | CPC]
• Charles Coe stepped down as the commanding officer of USS Hornet. ww2dbase [Hornet (Essex-class) | CPC]

• Pakistan was granted independence by the United Kingdom, forming the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. ww2dbase [CPC]

• Josias was sentenced to life imprisonment for his involvement with Buchenwald Concentration Camp in Germany. ww2dbase [Josias | CPC]

14 Aug 1947 Interactive Map

14 Aug 1956 Interactive Map

• Captain George W. Bruce, Jr. was named the commanding officer of USS Ticonderoga. ww2dbase [Ticonderoga | CPC]

• Grace Hopper retired from the US Navy. ww2dbase [Grace Hopper | CPC]

• Daniel Inouye was awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of Lakandula of Philippines. ww2dbase [Daniel Inouye | CPC]

14 Aug 2007 Interactive Map

• Stan Laurie passed away in Melbourne, Australia. ww2dbase [Stan Laurie | Melbourne, Victoria | CPC]