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• Alfried Krupp was born in Essen, Germany. ww2dbase [Alfried Krupp | Essen | CPC]

• Ernest Evans was born. ww2dbase [Ernest Evans | CPC]

• Haiqi participated in the battle in Nanjing, China during the Second Chinese Revolution, flying the flag of the Beiyang Government. ww2dbase [Haiqi | Nanjing | CPC]

• British Lieutenant H. D. Harvey-Kelly flew a No. 2 Squadron B.E.2a aircraft from Dover, England, United Kingdom to Amiens, France in 1 hour 55 minutes. This was the first RFC aircraft to arrive in France. ww2dbase [AC]

• Chancellor Bethmann-Hollweg agreed to support an Austro-Hungarian plan to establish a new Habsburg dominated state, after the war, on captured Polish territory, but only on condition that Austria also agreed to become politically subordinated to Berlin. ww2dbase [AC]

• Franklin Roosevelt became paralyzed from the chest down. ww2dbase [Franklin Roosevelt | CPC]

• Deutsche People's Party leader Gustav Stresemann was appointed German Chancellor and Foreign Minister in a new Grand Coalition Government. ww2dbase [AC]

• Minoru Ota was assigned to battleship Fuso. ww2dbase [Minoru Ota | CPC]

• The first major seagoing ship arrived at Gdynia, Poland. ww2dbase [Deutsche Werke Gotenhafen | Gdynia, Pomorskie | CPC]

13 ago 1923 Mapa Interativo

• The Los Angeles City Council authorized an ordinance to lease the 640 acres of Mines Field for the Los Angeles Municipal Airport. ww2dbase [Mines Field | Los Angeles, California | DS]

• The keel of Acasta was laid down by John Brown & Company in Clydebank, Scotland, United Kingdom. ww2dbase [Acasta | Clydebank, Scotland | CPC]

13 ago 1928 Mapa Interativo

• Adolf Hitler spoke with German President Paul von Hindenburg and demanded Chancellorship with the power to dissolve the Reichstag as he saw fit. Hindenburg did not accept the demand. ww2dbase [Adolf Hitler | CPC]

• The Spanish Republican battleship Jaime I was damaged by a Nationalist air attack off the coast of Malaga, Spain. ww2dbase [The Spanish Civil War | AC]

• Japanese troops and men of Chinese Peace Preservation Corps exchanged small arms fire at the Zhabei, Wusong, and Jiangwan districts of Shanghai, China starting at 0900 hours, thus opening the Second Battle of Shanghai. At 1500 hours, Japanese troops crossed the Bazi Bridge in Zhabei district amidst mortar attacks by troops of Chinese 88th Division. At 1600 hours, warships of Japanese 3rd Fleet bombarded Chinese positions. ww2dbase [Second Battle of Shanghai | Shanghai | CPC]
• USS Augusta departed Qingdao, Shandong Province, China with Admiral Harry Yarnell of US Asiatic Fleet aboard. ww2dbase [Augusta | Qingdao, Shandong | CPC]
• Units of the US 4th Marine Regiment were assigned to reinforce the Municipal Police of the international zone in Shanghai, China. ww2dbase [Shanghai | CPC]

13 ago 1937 Mapa Interativo

• Sokrushitelnyi was commissioned into service. ww2dbase [Sokrushitelnyi | CPC]

• Togo was launched by Bremer Vulkan AG at Bremer, Germany. ww2dbase [Bremer Vulkan AG | Togo / Coronel | Bremer, Weser-Ems | CPC]

13 ago 1938 Mapa Interativo

• U-36 departed Kiel, Germany. ww2dbase [U-36 | CPC]
• As Italian Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano departed Germany after the completion of a meeting with German leader Adolf Hitler and German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, he was told not to make any public announcements. Germany, however, would violate this agreement within hours, releasing a statement that Italy completely agreed with Germany's plans for the near future; this statement was false as Ciano had serious concerns regarding Hitler's determination to go to war with Poland. ww2dbase [CPC]

• Erich Raeder met with Adolf Hitler and attempted to convince Hitler to reduce the landing front for the planned invasion of Britain as the German Navy had little means to maintain the security of a wide landing area. ww2dbase [Adolf Hitler | Erich Raeder | CPC]

• Heavy cruisers USS Wichita and USS Quincy departed Pernambuco, Brazil for Montevideo, Uruguay. ww2dbase [Quincy (New Orleans-class) | Pernambuco | CPC]

• Admiral Thomas C. Hart of the US Navy Asiatic Fleet shifted his flag from heavy cruiser USS Augusta to submarine USS Porpoise at Qingdao, Shandong, China and departed for Shanghai. It was the first time a Asiatic Fleet chief had traveled in a submarine. ww2dbase [Porpoise | Qingdao, Shandong | CPC]

• US President Franklin Roosevelt met with Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, and Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles regarding the possibilities of transferring destroyers to the United Kingdom. Later on the same day, Roosevelt sent a telegram to British Prime Minister Winston Churchill via Acting Secretary of State Sumner Welles and Ambassador to London Joseph Kennedy, noting that "it may be possible to furnish to the British Government... at least 50 destroyers" in exchange for the promise of the Royal Navy never turning over its ships to the Germans even in the event of a Germany victory over the United Kingdom and for 99-year leases for land for military bases. ww2dbase [Franklin Roosevelt | Frank Knox | Henry Stimson | Washington, District of Columbia | CPC]

• The first shells fired from the French side of the English Channel fell upon Dover, England, United Kingdom. ww2dbase [AC]
• Philippe Pétain gave a speech over radio, speaking about government programs for the youth. His radio speech was written by Minister of Education René Gillouin. ww2dbase [Philippe Pétain | CPC]

• German submarine U-60 sank Swedish ship Nils Gorthon 10 miles north of Ireland at 2147 hours; 5 were killed and 16 survived. ww2dbase [First Happy Time | CPC]

• Maggiore Baracca departed La Spezia, Italy at 0805 hours for exercises, returning at 1730 hours. ww2dbase [Maggiore Baracca | La Spezia, Liguria | CPC]

• German Luftwaffe launched Adlerangriff, Eagle Attack, in the afternoon, but miscommunications in the morning meant some aircraft took off early and suffered heavy casualties. At 1500 hours, 300 German aircraft were launched. 86 British Fleet Air Arm and 1 RAF Fighter Command aircraft were destroyed on the ground and 13 RAF Fighter Command aircraft (2 Spitfire and 11 Hurricane) shot down; the Germans lost 87 airmen killed or captured; 40 German bombers and 36 German fighters were lost. Overnight, German aircraft damaged aircraft factories in Belfast and Castle Bromwich. The minesweeping trawler HMT Elizabeth Angela was sunk by air attack on this day off Dover, killing 1. ww2dbase [Battle of Britain | CPC]
• James Lacey was shot down by a German He 111 aircraft over Britain. ww2dbase [James Lacey | England | AC]

• The British Royal Navy cruiser HMS Carlisle shot down an Italian aircraft attacking Berbera, British Somaliland. On the same day, destroyer HMS Kimberley and sloop HMS Auckland shelled the port of El Sheikha, which had recently been captured by Italian forces. On the ground, Italian troops attacked British defenses at Tug Argan, but the defense held. ww2dbase [Invasion of British Somaliland | El Sheikha | CPC]

13 ago 1940 Mapa Interativo

• Stalin released the Polish prisoners of war taken in Sep 1939, ostensibly to form a Polish Army in Russia. ww2dbase [Joseph Stalin | AC]
• Journalist Richard Capell paid tribute in a radio broadcast the defenders of Tobruk, Libya, with specific mention of anti-aircraft gunners but also generally of Australians, Indians, and British "[b]oys", who "within weeks, turn[ed] into hardened men." ww2dbase [Siege of Tobruk | CPC]

• Dutch prisoners Dufour and Imitescaped the Oflag IV-C prisoner of war camp at Colditz Castle in Germany; they would be recaptured within a few days. ww2dbase [Colditz Castle | Colditz, Sachsen | CPC]

• A Soviet Zveno-SPB variant of the TB-3 aircraft, carrying two I-16 fighter-bombers, damaged the King Carol I Bridge (now Anghel Saligny Bridge) in Cernavoda, Costanta County, Romania. ww2dbase [TB-3 | Cernavoda, Costanta | CPC]

13 ago 1941 Mapa Interativo

• Lieutenant General Harukichi Hyakutake of the Japanese Seventeenth Army based at Rabaul, New Britain was ordered to take command of ground forces on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. ww2dbase [Harukichi Hyakutake | CPC]
• German submarine U-752 sank US ship Cripple Creek 400 miles southwest of Freetown, British West Africa at 0740 hours; 1 was killed, 51 survived. ww2dbase [Second Happy Time | U-752 | CPC]
• British submarine HMS Unbroken damaged cruisers Bolzano and Muzio Attendolo 21 miles north of Capo d'Orlando, Sicily, Italy. ww2dbase [Bolzano | CPC]

• Bernard Law Montgomery officially took command of the British Eighth Army in North Africa after the original choice commander, William Gott, was killed. ww2dbase [Bernard Montgomery | Cairo | TH, CPC]

• US Marine Corps established the Marine Corps Air Station, Santa Barbara, California, United States; it was placed under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Livingston B. Stedman, Jr. ww2dbase [Santa Barbara, California | CPC]

• Comandante Cappellini departed Bordeaux, France at 0842 hours, arriving at Le Verdon-sur-Mer, Aquitaine, France at 1250 hours. ww2dbase [Comandante Cappellini | Bordeaux, Aquitaine | CPC]

• Destroyer Yukikaze began a period of training in the Inland Sea in Japan. ww2dbase [Yukikaze | Inland Sea | CPC]

• In the Strait of Sicily in the Mediterranean Sea, 7 German and 8 Italian torpedo boats attacked the Allied Pedestal convoy, sinking freighters Wairangi, Glenorchy, Almeria Lykes, and Santa Elisa shortly after midnight. At 0100 hours, Italian torpedo boats MAS16 and MAS22 fatally damaged British cruiser HMS Manchester 4 miles off Kellibia, Tunisia, kiling 10. At dawn, German dive bombers sank freighters Waimarama (80 were killed) and Dorset. Later in the morning, already-damaged tanker Ohio was disabled by further bomb hits; she would be abandoned after nightfall. Finally, British fighters from Malta arrived, allowing three Pedestal convoy freighters to sail into Malta between 1730 and 1830 hours; the successful RAF fighter coverage which drove away German air attacks would also force the 6 Italian cruisers and 17 destroyers which had sailed from Messina, Sicily, Italy on the previous day to abandon their mission to intercept the Pedestal convoy. ww2dbase [Malta Campaign | CPC]

• USS S-44 suffered some minor damage to bow planes due to rough seas in the New Britain-New Ireland region. ww2dbase [S-44 | CPC]

• German submarine U-658 sank Dutch ship Medea of Allied convoy WAT-13 between Cuba and Haiti at 0507 hours; 5 were killed, 23 survived. German submarine U-171 sank US tanker R. M. Parker, Jr. with two torpedoes and her deck gun 25 miles off Louisiana, United States at 0750 hours; all 44 aboard survived. At 0948 hours, U-600 attacked Allied convoy TAW-12 between Cuba and Haiti, sinking Latvian ship Everlza (23 were killed, 14 survived) and US passenger-cargo ship Delmundo (8 were killed, 50 survived). ww2dbase [Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico Campaigns | Gulf of Mexico | CPC]
• Several attempts to tow F-class destroyer HMS Foresight (Lieutenant Commander Robert Augustus Fell RN), hit by an Italian aerial torpedo on the previous date, were made. When it was observed that an Axis attack might be likely, Tribal-class destroyer HMS Tartar (F43) took on the 181 survivors and scuttled Foresight with torpedoes at 0955 hours. ww2dbase [Malta Campaign | HM]
• Reginaldo Giuliani attacked American freighter California by torpedo and gunfire in the Atlantic Ocean. The ship was en route from Cape Town, South Africa to Trinidad. All 38 aboard abandoned the sinking ship, and one of them would later die of exposure before being rescued. ww2dbase [Second Happy Time | Reginaldo Giuliani | CPC]

• Submarine USS Narwhal departed her patrol area bound for Pearl Harbor, Hawaiʻi. Narwhal was leaving two days early due to unexpected expenditure of fuel during this patrol. ww2dbase [Narwhal | DS]

• Japanese Army troops attacked Australian positions at Deniki, Australian Papua. Behind the front lines, Japanese transports landed additional troops at Buna after dark. ww2dbase [New Guinea-Papua Campaign, Phase 2 | CPC]
• After dark, USS S-39 grounded on submerged rocks off Yela (Rossel) Island of Louisiade Archipelago and developed a 30-degree list. ww2dbase [S-39 | Yela | CPC]

• USS Tuscaloosa, USS Rodman, USS Emmons, and HMS Onslaught departed Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom with ammunition, aircraft parts, and other war goods for the Soviet Union. ww2dbase [Arctic Convoys | Glasgow, Scotland | CPC]

13 ago 1942 Mapa Interativo

• Orde Wingate shared his plans for an offensive into Burma; Claude Auchinleck, however, argued for Winston Churchill's alternate plan which focused on the Andaman Islands and then Sumatra instead. ww2dbase [Orde Wingate | CPC]
• Destroyers USS Nicholas, USS O’Bannon, and USS Chevalier arrived at Guadalcanal and anchored in Purvis Bay, Tulagi, Solomon Islands. ww2dbase [Nicholas | DS]

• US 9th Air Force bombed the Messerschmitt factory at Wiener Neustadt, Austria. Planners of the attack thought they were conducting a strike on a factory producing fighter aircraft, but in actuality it was manufacturing parts for V-2 rockets. ww2dbase [Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities | Vergeltungswaffe 2 | Neustadt, Niederdonau | CPC]

• US 13th Airborne Division was activated on at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, United States under the command of Major General George W. Griner, Jr. ww2dbase [Fort Bragg, North Carolina | AC]

• The US IX Bomber Command attacked the Lorenzo marshaling yards near Rome, Italy with 106 B-17 bombers, 66 B-25 bombers, and 102 B-26 bombers, escorted by 140 P-38G Lightning fighters. Heavy damage was inflicted on the yards and although two B-26Cs were downed the Italians lost five modern fighters in combat with the P-38 fighters. ww2dbase [Bombing of Rome, Naples, and Other Cities | Rome | AC]

• Nachi arrived at Ominato Guard District, Mutsu, Aomori Prefecture, Japan for a refitting; she would receive a Type 21 air search radar. ww2dbase [Nachi | Mutsu, Aomori | CPC]

• A F-4 and a F-5 aircraft of US 8th Photo Reconnaissance Squadron detected 199 Japanese aircraft and 4 air strips at Wewak, Australian New Guinea. ww2dbase [Wewak | CPC]

• USS Sunfish sanked Japanese converted gunboat Edo Maru and damaged another ship off Taiwan, hitting them with 6 of 10 torpedoes fired. ww2dbase [Sunfish (Gato-class) | CPC]
• USS Wahoo transited the Etorofu Strait and entered the Sea of Okhotsk. ww2dbase [Wahoo | Sea of Okhotsk | CPC]

• No. 602 Squadron RAF, flying Spitfire VB fighters, arrived at RAF Newchurch in southern England, United Kingdom. ww2dbase [RAF Newchurch | Newchurch, England | CPC]

• US Army 43rd Division landed on Vela Cela (and discovered no Japanese positions) and Baanga just off western New Georgia in the Solomon Islands. Meanwhile, in Tokyo, the Imperial General Headquarters issued Directive No. 267 authorizing the abandonment of the central Solomon Islands region. ww2dbase [Solomon Islands Campaign | CPC]

13 ago 1943 Mapa Interativo

• The Soviet minesweeper T.114 (formerly the USS Alchemy) was sunk by the German submarine U-365 in the Kara Sea in the Arctic Circle. ww2dbase [AC]
• At the end of the day, USS Ray began pursuing a small Japanese convoy off Borneo, Dutch East Indies, firing 4 torpedoes, all of which missed. ww2dbase [Ray | CPC]

• USS Permit arrived at Brisbane, Australia, ending her thirteenth war patrol. ww2dbase [Permit | Brisbane, Queensland | CPC]

• The US submarine Flier struck a naval mine and sank in the Balacbac Strait just off the southern tip of Palawan in the Philippine Islands. ww2dbase [Flier | Palawan | AC, CPC]

• A BQ-7 drone carrying 2,000 pounds of explosives reached the French coast, but missed its target. ww2dbase [Operation Aphrodite and Operation Anvil | CPC]
• The USAAF 306th Bomb Group flying from RAF Thurleigh launched a bombing raid against roads in the area of Rouen, France. ww2dbase [Bombing of Cities in France and Low Countries | RAF Thurleigh | Rouen | DS]

• Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Part of Night Fighting Squadron 79 (VF(N)-79) departed. ww2dbase [Barbers Point Naval Air Station | Ewa, Oahu | DS]
• USS Bergall arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. ww2dbase [Bergall | Honolulu, Oahu | CPC]

• USS Cassin Young arrived at Eniwetok, Marshall Islands. ww2dbase [Cassin Young | Eniwetok | CPC]

• Light carrier Ryuho departed Kure, Japan and arrived at Hashirajima, Japan. ww2dbase [Ryuho | Hashirajima, Yamaguchi | CPC]

• USS Archerfish exchanged gunfire with a Japanese patrol boat in the Pacific Ocean south of Japan. The Japanese patrol boat was struck several times but did not sink. ww2dbase [Archerfish | CPC]

• After sundown, 20 aircraft from No. 205 Bomber Group RAF, 4 aircraft from No. 1586 (Polish Special Duties) Flight RAF, and 4 aircraft from No. 148 (Special Duties) Squadron RAF dropped supplies for resistance fighters in Warsaw, Poland. 1 British aircraft of No. 178 Squadron and 2 South African aircraft of No. 31 Squadron SAAF were lost. ww2dbase [Warsaw Uprising | Warsaw | CPC]

• There were 19 V-1 flying bombs launched against Britain by Heinkel aircraft from III/KG3 during the night, only half of the number launched by air the previous evening. The Gruppe were having to evacuate their base at Rozières, Picardy, France, as the Allied advance was approaching the area, they would fly to Venlo in the Netherlands but would not launch any further bombs for a week. Squadron 274 lost a pilot, Flight Sergeant Royston Ryman flew into a hilltop at Elham, Kent, whilst conducting an anti-Diver patrol. A further seventeen V-1 flying bombs were shot down by anti-aircraft fire, one of which fell and exploded near to Lydden Spout coastal battery at Dover, Kent where a serviceman was badly wounded and four others slightly injured. ww2dbase [V-Weapons Campaign | Vergeltungswaffe 1 | Dover, England | HM]

13 ago 1944 Mapa Interativo

• Togo was transported from Germany to the United Kingdom as reparations. ww2dbase [Togo / Coronel | CPC]

• USS Cod returned to Fremantle, Australia, ending her seventh war patrol. ww2dbase [Cod | Fremantle, Western Australia | CPC]

• The secessionist self-proclaimed nation of Mongolia declared war on Japan. ww2dbase [Mongolia | AC]
• He Yingqin arrived in Chongqing, China. ww2dbase [He Yingqin | Chongqing | CPC]
• Refusing to obey Chiang Kaishek's orders, Communist leader Zhu De moved his troops toward northeastern China. ww2dbase [CPC]
• Emperor Kangde, the royal court, and most of the ministers of the puppet nation of Manchukuo arrived at Dalizigou, Tonghua, Andong Province, China. ww2dbase [Manchurian Strategic Offensive | Puyi | Tonghua, Andong | CPC]
• General Qian Dajun was appointed the mayor of Shanghai, China. ww2dbase [CPC]

• Casablanca-class escort carrier USS Steamer Bay entered drydock No. 1 at San Diego Naval Repair Base, California. ww2dbase [Steamer Bay | San Diego, California | DS]

• USS Croaker arrived at Subic Bay, Philippine Islands, ending her sixth and final war patrol. ww2dbase [Croaker | Subic Bay | CPC]
• USS Ray arrived at US Naval Base Subic Bay, Philippine Islands to replenish her stock of ammunition; her patrol was called off while in port. ww2dbase [Ray | Olongapo, Zambales | CPC]
• Destroyer USS Saufley departed Leyte Gulf, Philippines escorting cargo ship USS Gianser bound for Ulithi, Caroline Islands. ww2dbase [Saufley | San Pedro Bay, Leyte | DS]

• USS Macabi departed Guam, Mariana Islands. ww2dbase [Macabi | CPC]

• The Indochinese Communist Party held a meeting in Tan Trao northwest of Hanoi, Tonkin, French Indochina. The meeting was presided over by Ho Chi Minh. The Communists decided to fight the imminent return of the French, and that they would attempt to befriend US and USSR, possibly gaining their support against the French. ww2dbase [Trao, Tonkin | CPC]

• Carrier aircraft from USS Ticonderoga (Air Group 87), USS Yorktown, and USS Shangri-La struck Tokyo, Japan. ww2dbase [Preparations for Invasion of Japan | Yorktown (Essex-class) | Ticonderoga | Shangri-La | Tokyo | DS]
• Lieutenant Oscar Perdomo of 507th Fighter Group of US 20th Air Force, became the last air ace of the war when he destroyed five Japanese fighters during an offensive sweep over Kyushu island, Japan. ww2dbase [AC]
• Following an aerial torpedo damaging USS Pennsylvania in Buckner Bay, Okinawa the day before, USS St. Louis began retiring to sea every night before returning to Buckner Bay every morning. ww2dbase [St. Louis | Buckner Bay, Okinawa | DS]

• USS Carbonero sank two schooners with her deck gun in the Gulf of Siam-South China Sea area. ww2dbase [Carbonero | South China Sea | CPC]
• I-400 reached the location south of Ulithi, Caroline Islands and waited for I-401 to arrive; her commanding officer did not realize that the rendezvous point had changed to another location 1,000 miles to the west. ww2dbase [I-400 | CPC]

13 ago 1945 Mapa Interativo

• USS Bugara departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. ww2dbase [Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Bugara | Honolulu, Oahu | CPC]

13 ago 1949 Mapa Interativo

• USS Menhaden was decommissioned from service at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California, United States for for Guppy IIA conversion. ww2dbase [Mare Island Navy Yard | Menhaden | Vallejo, California | CPC]
• USS Ray was recommissioned into service with Lieutenant Commander A. C. Burley in command. ww2dbase [Ray | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | CPC]

• USS Menhaden was decommissioned from service. ww2dbase [Menhaden | CPC]

• The Investigative Commission on Pro-Japanese Collaborators' Property, an official Korean government body, announced a plan to seize about 1,000,000 square meters of land from descendants of ten Koreans who obtained the land from the Japanese occupation government through their collaboration; the land was valued at 25,700,000,000 won. This land was in addition to that announced on 2 May 2007. ww2dbase [CPC]