http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1942/aug42/f01aug42.htm
Churchill visits North Africa
Saturday, August 1, 1942 www.onwar.com
Prime Minister Churchill arrives in North Africa [photo at link]
In Egypt... British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and General Brooke arrive in Cairo. The poor performance of the British 8th Army is a major concern and replacement commanders are being sought. Churchill is very upset over the massive losses of equipment and supplies to the Germans.
On the Eastern Front... German Army Group A continues to attack Kletskaya. 4th Panzer Army, now across the Don River, is advancing east near Kotelnikovo. The 1st Panzer Army is staging attacks from its position on the Kuban, east to Stavropol and south to Maikop.
http://usswashington.com/worldwar2plus55/dl26jl42.htm
August 1st, 1942...Guadalcanal scout and government clerk Daniel Pule provides Martin Clemens with a detailed report with a map of Lunga plain showing tents, workshops, bomb sheds, and a wireless station. Trenches and dugouts are marked in red pencil. Clemens radios this to Townsville, Australia. Townsville immediately asks for the exact location of the radio station. Clemens provides it.
Aboard the Guadalcanal invasion force, Marines hold Sunday services in shifts, Catholics first, Protestants second.
After church, Marines buy candy (pogy bait) from the ship’s store, and return to classes on tactics and memoranda. One describes the Tenaru River as following “a serpentine course with a current averaging four knots. During the rainy season and flood the water rushes at much greater speed. The river is full of deep holes and well over a man’s head...”