http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1941/aug41/f06aug41.htm
Japan offers US some concessions
Wednesday, August 6, 1941 www.onwar.com
In Tokyo... Konoye’s government presents proposals involving some concessions in China and Indochina to the US, asking in return for the end of the freeze on Japanese assets. The proposals are not acceptable to the US and when the rejection is made known to the Japanese they propose that Konoye and Roosevelt meet to the discuss the issues at stake.
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August 6th, 1941
UNITED KINGDOM: ASW trawler HMS Agate lost after grounding off Cromer, Norfolk. (Dave Shirlaw)
GERMANY: U-187 laid down. U-404 commissioned.
U-589 and U-590 launched. (Dave Shirlaw)
U.S.S.R.: General Wladyslaw Anders is appointed C-in-C of the new Polish army to be formed in Russia.
JAPAN: Tokyo: Japan proposes concessions to the US in China and Indochina and asking for the end to the freeze on assets by the US. These proposals are rejected. They respond with a request for Konoye to meet with President Roosevelt. The question of this meeting is not resolved until after Roosevelt and Churchill meet at Placentia Bay.
TERRITORY OF HAWAII: An executive order transfers the U.S. Coast Guard’s Honolulu District from the Treasury Department to the U.S. Navy in the first step toward shifting the USCG to USN control. (Jack McKillop)
CANADA: Minesweepers HMCS Wasaga and Cowichan departed Esquimalt, British Columbia, for Halifax, Nova Scotia. (Dave Shirlaw)
ATLANTIC OCEAN: U-562 sinks SS RT-70 ex Kapitan Voronin.
At 1900, Soviet dispatch vessel PS-70 was hit by one torpedo from U-652 and sank seven miles off Cape Teriberka. This was the first U-boat success in the Arctic. (Dave Shirlaw)
ICELAND: USN Task Force 16 consisting of the battleship USS Mississippi (BB-41), heavy cruisers USS Quincy (CA-39) and USS Wichita (CA-35) and 5 destroyers delivers US Army troops to Reykjavik, Iceland. Accompanying TF 16 are the aircraft carrier USS Wasp (CV-7), the heavy cruiser USS Vincennes (CA-44) and 2 destroyers. The Army troops are in the Army transport American Legion while stores ship USS Mizar (AF-12) and cargo ship USS Almaack (AK-27) bring supplies and equipment. During the morning, USS Wasp, the heavy cruiser USS Vincennes and their 2 destroyers part company from TF 16 and soon thereafter, the carrier turned into the wind and commenced launching the 30 P-40s and 3 PT-17 Kaydets of the USAAF’s 33d Pursuit Squadron (Interceptor) which land at Reykjavik Airport.
As the P-40’s and the trainers droned on to Iceland, Wasp heads home for Norfolk, her three escorts in company. Also at Reykjavik, Iceland, are detachments of USN Patrol Squadrons 73 (VP-73), with PBY-5A Catalinas, and VP-74, with PBM-1 Mariners; both squadrons, which are serviced by the seaplane tender, destroyer USS Goldsborough (AVD-5), begin routine air patrols over the North Atlantic on this date. (Jack McKillop)