1943年7月25日 | World War II Database

1943年7月25日

The RAF commenced dropping small strips of metal foil (codename "Window") to confuse frequencies of the efficient German precision radars. ww2dbase [AC]
Orde Wingate was recalled to Britain. ww2dbase [Orde Wingate | CPC]
USS Pompon sank Japanese cargo ship Thames Maru in the Dutch East Indies and damaged two other ships; she expended 8 torpedoes and observed 5 hits. ww2dbase [Pompon | CPC]
US Army Major General Nathan Twining replaced US Navy Rear Admiral Marc Mitscher as Commander, Aircraft, Solomons. ww2dbase [Marc Mitscher | CPC]

加羅林群島

I-168 departed Truk, Caroline Islands for Rabaul. ww2dbase [I-68/I-168 | Truk | CPC]
Repair ship Akashi completed the repair work for cruiser Aoba at Truk, Caroline Islands. ww2dbase [Akashi | Truk | CPC]
Irako departed Truk, Caroline Islands for Kure, Japan with cruiser Aoba, with destroyers Amatsukaze and Urakaze in escort. ww2dbase [Irako | Truk | CPC]

希臘

Troops of German 1st Mountain Division massacred 153 people of the village of Mousiotitsa in Greece. ww2dbase [Mousiotitsa, Epirus | CPC]

德國

109 USAAF bombers attacked Hamburg, Germany in the afternoon as a follow up to the night raid by British bombers on the previous day; 15 bombers were lost. German passenger ship Weissesee was sunk in the harbor, the incomplete passenger liner Vaterland was heavily damaged at the Blohm und Voss shipyard, and the incomplete submarine U-1011 was also damaged at the Blohm und Voss shipyard. ww2dbase [Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities | Blohm und Voss | U-1011 | Weissesee | Hamburg | TH]
Essen, Germany was bombed by Allied aircraft; 2,000 tons of bombs were expended. ww2dbase [Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities | Essen | CPC]

挪威

German submarine U-703 arrived at Hopen island, Norway and picked up four survivors of Russian freighter Dekabrist, including the skipper Beliaev. ww2dbase [Arctic Convoys | Hopen | CPC]

比利時

Léon Degrelle was asked to leave a Catholic mass for wearing the SS uniform; military uniforms had been banned from masses by the Belgian Roman Catholic Church in 1940. ww2dbase [Léon Degrelle | CPC]

義大利

Benito Mussolini was arrested. Upon learning the news of the change in government, German troops began to disarm the Italian military. ww2dbase [Operation Eiche | TH]
Arturo Riccardi stepped down from all his leadership positions. ww2dbase [Arturo Riccardi | CPC]

英屬西太平洋領地

The Americans launched what would be the final offensive against Japanese positions on New Georgia in the Solomon Islands. ww2dbase [Solomon Islands Campaign | New Georgia | CPC]

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