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18 July — World War II: Germany test flies the Messerschmitt Me 262 (using only its jet engines) for the first time. 19 July — World War II – Battle of the Atlantic : German Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz orders the last U-boats to withdraw from their United States Atlantic coast positions, in response to an effective American convoy system.
Peru broke off diplomatic relations with Germany, Italy and Japan. [10] The British cargo ship Empire Wildebeeste was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean by German submarine U-596. The American submarine USS S-26 was accidentally rammed and sunk in the Gulf of Panama by the submarine chaser USS Sturdy. 46 men were lost.
Results from the L-IV trial, in the first half of 1942, indicated that the spherical geometry, with five tonnes of heavy water and 10 tonnes of metallic uranium, could sustain a fission reaction. They had achieved the first net neutron production of the German program, three years after the first such pile in history by Hans von Halban and ...
In June 1941, Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union. Despite the initial and overwhelming success of the campaign, the Soviets repulsed the German assault on Moscow and stalled the German advance. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Hitler required his allies – including Finland, which was fighting its second war with the Soviet Union in two years – to tie ...
U-210 was rammed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean by the Canadian destroyer Assiniboine, U-612 sank off Gotenhafen, Germany after colliding with U-444, and U-578 went missing in the Bay of Biscay. Her fate remains unknown. German submarine U-634 was commissioned. Born: Evelyn Hamann, actress, in Hamburg, Germany (d. 2007)
Wood projected expenditure for 1942–43 at £5.286 billion and raised taxes on non-essential goods and services such as alcohol, tobacco, cinema admissions and cosmetics. [14] German submarine U-85 became the first casualty of Operation Drumbeat when she was sunk near Cape Hatteras by the American destroyer Roper.
Berlin Sportpalast (German: [ˈʃpɔɐ̯tpaˌlast]; built 1910, demolished 1973) was a multi-purpose indoor arena located in the Schöneberg section of Berlin, Germany. Depending on the type of event and seating configuration, the Sportpalast could hold up to 14,000 people and was for a time the biggest meeting hall in Berlin.
Last Letters from Stalingrad (German: Letzte Briefe aus Stalingrad), an anthology of letters from German soldiers who took part in the Battle for Stalingrad during World War II. Originally published in West Germany in 1950, the book was translated into many languages (into English by Anthony G. Powell in 1956), and has been issued in numerous ...