3 Aug 1939
- 30 Soviet-built I-16 fighters were delivered to the Chinese Air Force. ww2dbase [I-16 | CPC]
- Vyacheslav Molotov informed Joseph Stalin that Germany was requesting the Soviet Union to engage in talks over the future of Eastern Europe. While he did request permission to speak to the Germans on this topic, he expressed skeptism as Germany was concurrently pushing Poland to sign the Anti-Comintern Pact. ww2dbase [Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact | CPC]
- After sundown, Liu Zhesheng, flying an I-15bis fighter, shot down a Japanese bomber over Chongqing, China. ww2dbase [Bombing of Shanghai, Chongqing, and other Cities | Liu Zhesheng | Chongqing | CPC]
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