http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1941/aug41/f16aug41.htm
Convoy escapes attacks unscathed
Saturday, August 16, 1941 www.onwar.com
In the North Atlantic... Since August 9th, 8 German and 3 Italian submarines have made repeated, though unsuccessful, attacks on convoy HG-69, northwest of Gibraltar.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andrew.etherington/month/thismonth/17.htm
August 17th, 1941
UNITED KINGDOM: London: Britain and the USSR protest to Iran about the large number of German “tourists” in Iran.
Great Britain and the Soviet Union sign a trade accord. (Jack McKillop)
U.S.S.R.: The German Army’s Heeresgruppe Nord (von Leeb) in its drive toward Leningrad captures Narva while Heeresgruppe Süd (von Rundstedt) reaches the Dniepr River at Dnepropetrovsk. Novgorod on the shores of Lake Ilmen and the Black Sea naval port of Nikolayev also falls to the Germans. (Jack McKillop)
Soviet submarine SC-216 commissioned. (Dave Shirlaw)
Soviet submarine Shch-307 is mined near Suuraari Island. (Mike Yared)(146 and 147)
CHINA: The Nationalist government endorses the Anglo-US Atlantic Charter.
U.S.A.: President Franklin D Roosevelt and Secretary of State Cordell Hull talk with Japanese Ambassador Nomura Kichasaburo. The Americans state their conditions for resuming negotiations with the Japanese. A US note to Japan is formally presented. This note maintains the lines as agreed at Placentia Bay. Since it is toned down from what was originally agreed, the British and Dutch governments do not present their notes at this time. (Jack McKillop)