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opens; platform adopted; Dewey pledges party loyalty to Roosevelt war program
Gers claim Grozny oil fields reached
von Bock forces threaten city
US Flying Fortresses bomb Le Trait U boat yds; Canadians of Allied fighter escort down 2 Focke-Wulf planes; 2 Allied planes lost; RAF bombs Ger bases between Etretat and Abbeville; ground crew and 1st plane returning, illus; 3 Ger bombers downed, East Anglia, Midlands and northwest Brit raids; Gers claim raids on Derby, Ipswich and Great Yarmouth, Eng
9 cos and officials indicted on price conspiracy charge; Atty Gen Biddle says Gen Elec Co has refunded excess profits; statements by Rockbestos Products, Gen Cable, Gen Elec and 3 other cos
1942Nathan Deal, American lawyer, and politician, 82nd Governor of Georgia[โ ]
John Nathan Deal is an American politician and former lawyer who served as the 82nd governor of Georgia from 2011 to 2019. A Republican, he previously served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
1942Pat Ingoldsby, Irish poet and television presenter (died 2025)[โ ]
Patrick Ingoldsby was an Irish poet and television presenter. He hosted children's television shows, wrote plays for the stage and for radio, published books of short stories and was a newspaper columnist. From the mid-1990s, he withdrew from the mass media and was most widely known for his collections of poetry, and his selling of them on the streets of Dublin.
1942Ivan Koloff, Canadian wrestler (died 2017)[โ ]
Oreal Donald Perras was a Canadian professional wrestler, better known by the ring name "the Russian Bear" Ivan Koloff, under which name he was billed as being from Russia and, following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Ukraine. He was the third wrestler to hold the WWWF Championship. In April 2025, it was announced that Koloff would be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame.
1942Prince George, Duke of Kent (born 1902)[โ ]
Prince George, Duke of Kent, was a member of the British royal family, the fourth son of King George V and Queen Mary. He was a younger brother of kings Edward VIII and George VI. George served in the Royal Navy in the 1920s and then briefly as a civil servant. He became Duke of Kent in 1934. In the late 1930s he served as a Royal Air Force officer, initially as a staff officer at RAF Training Command and then, from July 1941, as a staff officer in the Welfare Section of the RAF Inspector General's Staff. He died in the Dunbeath air crash in Scotland on 25 August 1942, in which fourteen of the fifteen crew and passengers were killed.
1942World War II: Second day of the Battle of the Eastern Solomons; a Japanese naval transport convoy headed towards Guadalcanal is turned back by an Allied air attack.[โ ]
The naval Battle of the Eastern Solomons took place on 24โ25 August 1942 and was the third carrier battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II and the second major engagement fought between the United States Navy and the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during the Guadalcanal campaign. As at the Battle of the Coral Sea and the Battle of Midway, the ships of the two adversaries were never within sight of each other. Instead, all attacks were carried out by carrier-based or land-based aircraft.
1942World War II: Battle of Milne Bay: Japanese marines assault Allied airfields at Milne Bay, New Guinea, initiating the Battle of Milne Bay.[โ ]
The Battle of Milne Bay, also known as Operation RE or the Battle of Rabi (ใฉใใฎๆฆใ) by the Japanese, was a battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II. Japanese naval infantry, known as Kaigun Tokubetsu Rikusentai, with two small tanks attacked the Allied airfields at Milne Bay that had been established on the eastern tip of New Guinea. Due to poor intelligence work, the Japanese miscalculated the size of the predominantly Australian garrison and, believing that the airfields were defended by only two or three companies, initially landed a force roughly equivalent in size to one battalion on 25 August 1942. The Allies, forewarned by intelligence from Ultra, had heavily reinforced the garrison.