http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1941/aug41/f13aug41.htm
Soviets free Polish POWs
Wednesday, August 13, 1941 www.onwar.com
In the Soviet Union... The government announces the release of all Polish prisoners of war captured in September 1939.
In China... After a week, the Japanese have recorded 40 air raids on Chungking.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andrew.etherington/month/thismonth/13.htm
August 13th, 1941
UNITED KINGDOM: Minesweeping trawler HMS Rysa commissioned. (DS)
FRANCE: Paris: At the porte Saint-Denis and the porte Saint-Martin, fighting breaks out between demonstrators and the French and German police. Those arrested are communists.
GERMANY: A Wellington bomber carrying prototype “Gee” navigation equipment is lost after a raid on Hamburg.
NORTH AFRICA: Beginning last night 6,000 Polish troops replace 5,000 Australians at Tobruk. These troop movements will continue through the 18th. They are being made at the request of the Australian government.
CHINA: After seven days of heavy Japanese bombing, the city of Chungking is devastated.
CANADA: Minesweepers HMCS Llewellyn and Lloyd George ordered. (Dave Shirlaw)
U.S.A.: In baseball, Larry MacPhail, General Manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, stages a fashion show before a Ladies Day crowd at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn. Such promotions, as well as the Dodgers pennant race, will push the home gate to over one million fans. (Jack McKillop)
“Soviets free Polish POWs”. Well, not all of them. The head count’s gonna be a little short. Wandered off to Manchuria, don’t ya know.