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Vichy French share defense of Indochina
Tuesday, July 29, 1941 www.onwar.com
In Tokyo... Vichy France and Japan sign an agreement on the mutual defense of Indochina.
In Japan... Japan freezes Dutch assets. Almost 75 percent of Japan’s foreign trade is at a standstill and 90 percent of its oil supplies have been cut off.
In Germany... General Ludwig von Schroeder, the former head of civil defense and president of the 13,000,000 membership of the “Air Raid Protection League,” dies of injuries received in a plane crash near Belgrade.
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July 29th, 1941
UNITED KINGDOM:
ASW trawler HMS Buster launched.
Submarine HMS Ultimatum commissioned. (Dave Shirlaw)
U.S.S.R.: Moscow: Stalin demotes General Georgi Zhukov from the position of chief for the General Staff, for advising a tactical surrender at Kiev, replacing him with Marshal Boris Shaposhnikov.
FAR EAST: Vichy France signs a treaty giving Japan control of its colonies in Indochina in the event of enemy attack. The Japanese occupy southern French Indochina with the permission of the French. (Jack McKillop)
U.S.A.: The US Secretary of the Navy approves the installation of a Radar Plot aboard aircraft carriers as “the brain of the organization” protecting the fleet from air attack. The first installation is planned for the island structure of USS Wasp (CV-7). (Jack McKillop)