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19 August 1942
What happened on this day in the Second World War, from 1939 to 1945, with a source for every entry.
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Each day we list events from the Second World War that happened on that date, from 1939 to 1945. Every entry names its source and links to it, so you can read further. Entries are sourced and machine-screened before they go up, a subset is human-reviewed, and we add more over time.
7 of 345 sourced entries for this date, chosen by the editor.
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Guadalcanal
5th Marines, in limited offensive, clears coastal villages of Matanikau and Kokumbona, then returns to Lunga Pt. Cos L and B attack Matanikau from E and S. Co I, moving forward by sea, clears Kakumbona.
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New Britain
Japanese reinforcements, about 1,500 in 4 transports screened by DD’s, leave Rabaul for Guadalcanal.
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Operation Jubilee (The Dieppe Raid): The 2nd Canadian Infantry Division leads an amphibious assault by allied forces on Dieppe, France and fails.
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Dieppe Raid
"Hugh-Hallet is often credited with proposing the "mulberrie" [.] but he himself said they were Churchill's idea, posed months before Dieppe."
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Dieppe Raid
The real lessons that helped secure victory for the Allies on D-Day were the landings conducted during Operations Torch, Husky, Avalanche and at Tarawa.
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China-Burma-India Theater
THOR mission records show at least 2 Allied sorties (1 recorded unit missions) in the China-Burma-India Theater on 1942-08-19, flown by RAF. Targets included BURMA.
Source US Air Force THOR (opens external site)
THOR is a secondary compilation with known gaps, not a complete record.
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