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• Hovhannes Ter-Isahakyan was born in Hadjikend, Kars, southern Russia (now in Turkey); his birth date was also recorded as 10 Aug 1894 in the Russian Old Style calendar. ww2dbase [Ivan Isakov | Hadjikend, Kars | CPC]

• Joseph Stilwell was assigned to the Department of Modern Languages at the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York, United States. ww2dbase [Joseph Stilwell | West Point, New York | CPC]

22 Aug 1906 Interactive Map

• Masafumi Arima returned to Japan. ww2dbase [Masafumi Arima | CPC]

• Omar Bradley was promoted to the rank of captain. ww2dbase [Omar Bradley | CPC]

• British battlecruiser Hood was launched. ww2dbase [Hood | CPC]

• The Polish spearhead reached the River Narew in eastern Poland, cutting off General Tukhachevsky's 4th Red Army from the bulk of the Soviet forces. ww2dbase [AC]

• Kasuga arrived at Cristóbal, Panama Canal Zone. ww2dbase [Kasuga | Cristóbal | CPC]

• S-26 was launched at the Fore River Shipyard in Quincy, Massachusetts, United States, sponsored by the wife of Carlos Bean. ww2dbase [S-26 | Quincy, Massachusetts | CPC]

22 Aug 1922 Interactive Map

• The world's largest aircraft at the time of its appearance, the triplane Walter Barling designed XNBL-1 (eXperimental Night Bomber Long range) made its maiden flight. The prototype marked the first flight of a six engine American aircraft. Flying a total of 28 miles during its test flight from Dayton, Ohio, United States the XNBL-1 reached a speed of 93 mph, but unfortunately the aircraft was crippled by its under-powered Liberty inline engines and the project, as well as the improved XNBL-2 development, was abandoned in 1925. ww2dbase [AC]

• Rawalpindi was launched. ww2dbase [Rawalpindi | AC]

• Joseph Stilwell was made a Student Officer at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, United States. ww2dbase [Joseph Stilwell | Leavenworth, Kansas | CPC]

22 Aug 1925 Interactive Map

• The keel of fleet escort ship F4 was laid down at the Krupp Germania Werft yard in Kiel, Germany. ww2dbase [Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft | F4 | Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein | CPC]

• The keel of Garland was laid down by the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering in Govan, Scotland, United Kingdom. ww2dbase [Garland | Govan, Scotland | CPC]

22 Aug 1934 Interactive Map

• Arturo Riccardi was placed in charge of the staff services of the Ministry of Navy. ww2dbase [Arturo Riccardi | CPC]

• In the morning, 12 Japanese Type 92 attack aircraft, escorted by 6 Type 95 fighters, attacked Jiangyin, Jiangsu Province, China, targeting light cruisers Pinghai and Ninghai. Pinghai suffered a hit in the forward half of the Pinghai the starboard side, causing light flooding and injuring commanding officer Captain Gao Xianshen in the waist; Ninghai also suffered one hit. At noon, another wave of Japanese bombers arrived from the west and dropped bombs from altitude, causing minor damage to Pinghai. In the afternoon, 7 carrier aircraft from Kaga attacked the Chinese fleet. At 1630 hours, 9 Japanese aircraft attacked Ninghai, causing no damage. At 1730 hours, 6 Type 92 attack aircraft and 3 Type 95 fighters of the Japanese 12th Air Fleet attacked Pinghai, causing further damage with four bomb hits and near misses. On this day, Pinghai suffered 5 killed, 23 wounded; she also claimed 5 aircraft shot down. Chiense training cruiser Yingrui was also damaged by Japanese aircraft on this day. ww2dbase [Second Battle of Shanghai | Jiangyin, Jiangsu | CPC]
• The main force of the Chinese Communist Party was organized under the Chinese Army as the 8th Route Army. ww2dbase [CPC]

22 Aug 1937 Interactive Map

• Prinz Eugen was launched at the Germaniawerft yard in Kiel, Germany. ww2dbase [Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft | Prinz Eugen | Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein | CPC]

22 Aug 1938 Interactive Map

• With a non-aggression pact nearly secured with the Soviet Union, German leader Adolf Hitler ordered the Polish invasion to commence on 26 Aug 1939. He told his top military commanders to be brutal and show no compassion in the upcoming war. ww2dbase [Invasion of Poland | CPC]
• Adolf Hitler said that even though he was important for Germany, but he could be killed by anybody at any time. ww2dbase [July Plot | CPC]

• Westerwald began supporting German cruiser Deutschland in the Arctic Sea. ww2dbase [Deutschland | Nordmark | CPC]

• Joachim von Ribbentrop and the German delegation departed Berlin, Germany aboard two Condor aircraft for Königsberg, East Prussia, Germany. ww2dbase [Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact | Berlin | CPC]
• Georg von Küchler was named the commanding officer of 3rd Army. ww2dbase [Georg von Küchler | CPC]

• British Swordfish torpedo bombers of 812 Squadron from HMS Peregrine bombed German invasion barges at Daedereide, the Netherlands. One Swordfish aircraft was shot down, with its crew of two taken prisoner. ww2dbase [CPC]
• Three Swordfish torpedo bombers of 824 Squadron of HMS Eagle sank Italian submarine Iride, killing most of the crew of 45, and the depot ship Monte Gargano in the Gulf of Bomba, Libya. Italian torpedo boat Calypso was also damaged. ww2dbase [Eagle | Iride | CPC]
• James V. Forrestal, former Administrative Assistant to the US President and Wall Street broker, was named the first Undersecretary of the Navy responsible for procurement and materiel in the Navy Department. ww2dbase [CPC]
• Adolf Galland was appointed Geschwaderkommodore JG 26 "Schlageter". ww2dbase [Adolf Galland | AC]

• Harrow in northwest London, England, United Kingdom received a German bomb at 0330 hours, the first to fall within the borders of the London Civil Defence Area. After daybreak, bad weather once again prevented large German raids. At 0900 hours, German 38-centimeter guns at Cape Gris Nez, France shelled the convoy "Totem" in the Strait of Dover for 80 minutes, but no ships were hit. At 1300 hours, German Ju 88 bombers, escorted by Bf 109 fighters, attacked the same convoy, but were engaged by Spitfire fighters of No. 54 Squadron and Hurricane fighters of No. 610 Squadron; 1 Ju 88, 1 Spitfire, and 1 Hurricane aircraft were shot down, wit the Hurricane fighter shot down by friendly fire. In the evening, the 38-centimeter gun fired again, this time at the city of Dover; British 14-inch gun "Winnie" returned fire. From 1830 hours through the night, German bombers raided British cities, including Aberdeen, Bristol, and Hull. ww2dbase [Battle of Britain | London, England | CPC]
• Winston Churchill visited RAF Kenley in southern London, England, United Kingdom. ww2dbase [Winston Churchill | London, England | CPC]

22 Aug 1940 Interactive Map

• Soviet passenger ship Pomorie hit a mine and sank in the White Sea in northern Russia; 60 were killed, 20 survived. ww2dbase [Arctic Convoys | CPC]

22 Aug 1941 Interactive Map

• The work week for foreign workers in Germany was increased to 54 hours. ww2dbase [CPC]
• The US Marine Corps established the 4th Marine Aircraft Wing at Ewa, US Territory of Hawaii. ww2dbase [CPC]
• Brazil declared war on Germany and Italy. The official statement said: "In the face of acts of war against our sovereignty we recognise that a state of war exists between Brazil and the aggressor nations, Germany and Italy". ww2dbase [AC]
• A Panama Canal Zone-based B-18 Bolo bomber of US 45th Bombardment Squadron sank German submarine U-654 with depth charges 185 miles north of the Panama Canal in the afternoon, killing all 44 aboard. ww2dbase [Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico Campaigns | CPC]
• British armed trawler HMS Canna disembarked a group of survivors of steam tanker Mirlo, lost to German submarine U-130 on 11 Aug 1942, in Freetown, Sierra Leone. One of the survivors, Able Seaman Sverre Gustavsen, was taken to the hospital where he was found to have a very severe skull fracture in addition to other injuries. ww2dbase [HM]

• New Zealand troop transport HMNZS Awatea rammed US destroyer USS Buck in heavy fog 225 miles south of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; HMNZS Awatea suffered damage from depth charge detonations, USS Buck suffered damage and suffered 7 killed, and destroyer USS Ingraham collided with oiler USS Chemung during the rescue effort, causing more accidental depth charge detonations that would kill 218 and sink USS Ingraham (only 11 survived Ingraham's sinking). Elsewhere, German submarine U-507 sank Swedish merchant ship Hammaren 12 miles off the coast of Brazil at 0950 hours; 6 were killed, 25 survived. ww2dbase [Second Happy Time | AC, CPC]
• USS Juneau set sail from the Caribbean Sea for the Pacific Theater of War. ww2dbase [Juneau | Caribbean Sea | CPC]

• USS S-38 arrived at Brisbane, Australia, ending her sixth war patrol. ww2dbase [S-38 | Brisbane, Queensland | CPC]

• Soviet submarine M-3 became missing in the Black Sea near Odessa, Ukraine, presumably having struck a German naval mine and sank. ww2dbase [CPC]

• US and Japanese supplying destroyers made contact in the Savo Sound off Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands; Japanese destroyer Kawakaze disabled destroyer USS Blue with Type 93 torpedoes at 0359 hours (killing 9; she would be scuttled on the following day). ww2dbase [Guadalcanal Campaign | Type 93 | Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands | CPC]
• 5 P-400 aircraft of the USAAF 67th Fighter Squadron joined the Cactus Air Force at Henderson Field on Guadalcanal. ww2dbase [Guadalcanal Campaign | Henderson Field | Lunga Point, Guadalcanal | CPC]
• US Army Air Forces 67th Fighter Squadron of 347th Fighter Group, equipped with P-39 fighters, was assigned to Henderson Field on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. ww2dbase [Henderson Field | Lunga Point, Guadalcanal | CPC]

• Japanese submarine I-30 departed Lorient, France with 50 T-Enigma coding machines (which would enable communications between Japanese Navy and German Navy), blueprint of air-defense radar, 5 G7a torpedoes, and 3 G7e electric torpedoes, and other technologies on board. ww2dbase [Lorient, Bretagne | CPC]

• Yugure bombarded Ocean Island, Hawaiian Islands. ww2dbase [Yugure | Ocean | CPC]

• Italian torpedo boat Generale Antonio Cantore struck a mine and sank 5 miles west of Tobruk, Libya; the mine was laid by British submarine HMS Porpoise on 12 Aug 1942. ww2dbase [Tobruk | CPC]

• USS Haddock fired 4 torpedoes at a convoy, sinking Japanese transport ship Tatsuho Maru with 2 hits in the East China Sea 50 miles north of Taiwan at 1310 hours; 36 were killed and the cargo of 10,000 gallons of aviation fuel was lost. ww2dbase [Haddock | East China Sea | CPC]

• German 16th Panzer Division began to cross the Don River toward Stalingrad, Russia. ww2dbase [Battle of Stalingrad | CPC]

22 Aug 1942 Interactive Map

• USS Tunny reached Palau Islands. ww2dbase [Tunny | CPC]
• USS Pompon arrived at Brisbane, Australia, ending her first war patrol. ww2dbase [Pompon | CPC]

• Elements of the US 2nd Marine Airdrome Battalion landed on Nukufetau, Ellice Islands. ww2dbase [CPC]

• Barbers Point Naval Air Station: More of Air Group 9 departed. More of Air Group 5 departed. More of Air Group 23 departed. ww2dbase [Barbers Point Naval Air Station | Ewa, Oahu | DS]
• USS Yorktown (Essex-class) stood out of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii bound for her first combat of the war. ww2dbase [J. J. Clark | Yorktown (Essex-class) | Pearl Harbor, Oahu | DS]

• George Patton apologized to doctors and nurses who witnessed him slapping enlisted men for accused cowardice. Later in the day, Patton met entertainer Bob Hope and asked Hope to announced on the radio that Patton loved and cared for his men. ww2dbase [George Patton | Sicilia | CPC]

• USS S-31 departed Nouméa, New Caledonia for her eighth war patrol. ww2dbase [S-31 | Nouméa | CPC]

• German troops in Kharkov, Ukraine began evacuating after sundown. ww2dbase [Fourth Battle of Kharkov | Kharkov | TH]

22 Aug 1943 Interactive Map

• Operation Goodwood I and Goodwood II: British carrier aircraft (32 Barracuda dive bombers and 43 fighters) from HMS Formidable, Indefatigable, Furious, Nabob, and Trumpeter attacked German battleship Tirpitz to little effect. ww2dbase [Tirpitz | CPC]
• USS Tang sank Japanese patrol boat Nansatsu Maru No. 2, hitting her with one of four torpedoes fired. ww2dbase [Tang | CPC]
• USS Pintado detected a 11-ship Japanese convoy during the day. After sundown, she fired ten torpedoes at the convoy, sinking the large tanker Tonan Maru No. 2 and damaging two other ships with a total of four hits. ww2dbase [Pintado | CPC]
• USS Sennet was commissioned into service with Commander George E. Porter in command. ww2dbase [Sennet | CPC]
• Léon Degrelle was mentioned in the Wehrmachtbericht. ww2dbase [Léon Degrelle | CPC]

• HMS Mauritius sank five German coastal patrol Vorpostenboot vessels off France. ww2dbase [Mauritius | CPC]

• USS Honolulu arrived at Tulagi, Solomon Islands. ww2dbase [Walden Ainsworth | Honolulu | Tulagi, Solomon Islands | DS]

• USS Flying Fish attacked a Japanese transport in the Dutch East Indies; all 3 torpedoes fired missed. ww2dbase [Flying Fish | CPC]

• Having been convinced by Charles de Gaulle two days prior that Paris, France must be captured with haste, Dwight Eisenhower traveled to Omar Bradley's headquarters to discuss the logistics. ww2dbase [Liberation of Paris | Dwight Eisenhower | CPC]

• Adolf Hitler ordered the destruction of Paris, France on the following day. ww2dbase [Liberation of Paris | Adolf Hitler | CPC]

• Light carrier Ryuho departed Hashirajima, Japan for Yashima, Japan. ww2dbase [Ryuho | Hashirajima, Yamaguchi | CPC]
• Landing ship No. 161 was launched. ww2dbase [No. 101/103-class | CPC]

• American submarine USS Bowfin attacked Japanese convoy Namo 103 and sank passenger ship Tsushima Maru near the island of Akusekijima. 2,251 aboard were killed, including 767 children; most of those killed were civilian evacuees from Okinawa. ww2dbase [Bowfin | Tsushima Maru | CPC]
• USS Gunnel attacked a Japanese transport in the South China Sea; all 6 torpedoes missed. ww2dbase [Gunnel | South China Sea | CPC]

• USS Harder assisted in the sinking of Japanese frigates Matsuwa and Hiburi off Bataan, Luzon, Philippine Islands. ww2dbase [Harder | CPC]

• Kamoi took on a cargo of coal at Singapore. ww2dbase [Kamoi | Singapore | CPC]

• 111/KG3 of the German Air Force launched 21 sorties during the early hours from their new base at Venlo in the south east of the Netherlands. All Heinkel bombers returned safely after launching their V-1 flying bombs. One of these impacted on just half a mile down Oak Lane, where the railway bridge had just been repaired. Another clipped some elm trees near some cottages and span into on of them killing a man and a woman, orphaning the two children who were dug out of the wreckage unhurt. ww2dbase [V-Weapons Campaign | Vergeltungswaffe 1 | Newington, England | HM]

• USS Sunfish departed Midway Atoll for her eighth war patrol. ww2dbase [Midway Bases | Sunfish (Gato-class) | Midway | CPC]

22 Aug 1944 Interactive Map

• Japanese forces in the Manchuria region of northeastern China surrendered. In the two-week campaign, the Japanese had lost 80,000 killed and wounded and 54,000 taken prisoner, including 143 generals. The Soviets had lost 8,200 dead and 22,000 wounded. ww2dbase [Manchurian Strategic Offensive | AC]
• The Yugoslavian parliament decreed that all arable land over 75 acres would be taken over by the state and be given to former partisan and wounded soldiers. ww2dbase [AC]
• USS Pompon departed Guam, Mariana Islands. ww2dbase [Pompon | CPC]

• Indonesia announced the formation of its army, known as the Badan Keamanan Rakjat, or the People's Security Organization. The Partai Nasional Indonesia was also established on this date as a state party, with Sukarno as its Great Leader, Mohammad Hatta as its Deputy Great Leader, and Sartono as its Head. ww2dbase [CPC]

• French Commissioner Pierre Messmer for Tonkin, French Indochina was parachuted north of Hanoi, but was captured by Viet Minh troops; he would soon be rescued by Chinese troops. Meanwhile, Jean Sainteny, another French colonial administrator, flew into Hanoi aboard an American aircraft from Chongqing, China. On the same day, Commissioner Jean Cédile for Cochinchine was parachuted 85 kilometers northwest of Saigon, and was captured and humiliated by local farmers; he and his team was rescued by Japanese troops. Finally, in Thai Nguyen, Tonkin, the Japanese personnel which had been previously besieged by Viet Minh were freed after the communists withdrew to handle the arrival of French colonial administrators. ww2dbase [Hanoi, Tonkin | CPC]

• USS Haddock arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, ending her twelfth war patrol. ww2dbase [Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Haddock | Honolulu, Oahu | CPC]

• Japanese troops at Mui Wo, Lantau Island, Hong Kong arrested and executed civilians Lam Tsah and Lam Kuan in retaliation of an attack on Japanese troops on 19 Aug 1945. Company commander Yasuo Kishi personally executed Lam Kuan. ww2dbase [Lantau | CPC]

• Japanese troops began to withdraw from larger towns in British Malaya. Since British colonial administration had not yet returned, this created a situation of anarchy. Malay-Chinese ethnic violence escalated in some of these towns as the result. ww2dbase [CPC]

• USS Ancon made rendezvous with US 3rd Fleet and set course for Tokyo Bay, Japan. ww2dbase [Ancon | CPC]

• Joseph Stalin ordered his generals to abandon the plans to land on Hokkaido, Japan. ww2dbase [Manchurian Strategic Offensive | Joseph Stalin | CPC]

• The Thai government declared that it would allow the United Nations to resolve the Thai-French Indochina border dispute. ww2dbase [CPC]

• Bob Feller was discharged from the US Navy. ww2dbase [Robert Feller | CPC]

22 Aug 1945 Interactive Map

• Döme Sztójay passed away. ww2dbase [Döme Sztójay | CPC]

• Submarine R-5 was sold to the firm John J. Duane of Quincy, Massachusetts, United States for scrap. ww2dbase [R-5 | CPC]

• Josef Bühler was executed by hanging in Kraków, Poland at 1949 hours. ww2dbase [Josef Bühler | Kraków | CPC]

• USS Wasp conducted a orientation cruise out of Boston Massachusetts, United States. ww2dbase [Wasp (Essex-class) | Boston, Massachusetts | CPC]

• Chen Daqing passed away. ww2dbase [Chen Daqing | CPC]

• North American Smelting Company had completed the scrapping of Ancon. ww2dbase [Ancon | CPC]

22 Aug 2004 Interactive Map