31 Aug 1938
- Aviere was commissioned into service. ww2dbase [Aviere | CPC]
- Akagi completed her modernization, emerging with the three flight decks removed. In their place was one single flight deck running nearly the length of the ship. Aircraft capacity was increased from 61 to 91. ww2dbase [Akagi | CPC]
- Winston Churchill suggested that if United Kingdom, United States, and Soviet Union collectively asserted pressure on Germany, Germany might abandon its claims for the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia; he was unable to persuade fellow British politicians. ww2dbase [Munich Conference and the Annexation of Sudetenland | CPC]
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