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September 19th, 1942
CHINA: US China Air Task Force B-25 Mitchells strike Lungling; the raid is ineffective due to bad weather but results in the discovery of much Japanese activity which further reconnaissance reveals as part of a heavy movement of enemy and supplies along the Burma Road toward the Salween front. (Jack McKillop)
NEW GUINEA: US Fifth Air Force A-20 Havocs and B-26 Marauders strafe and bomb the airfield at Lae. B-17 Flying Fortresses attack cargo vessels near Umboi (Rooke) Island between New Guinea and New Britain Island and a whaling vessel is strafed by fighters off Goodenough Island. (Jack McKillop)
New Caledonia: The Americal Division is reorganised into:
Mobile Command: including all combat troops (except 70th CA Regiment, Signal Corps units and Fighting French Forces)
Base command: including all service units (except Signal units)
Air Force Command: including all Army Air Forces units and units of other services assigned to Army Air Forces
Troops under direct control of CG Americal Division included: Division Headquarters Detachment, Headquarters Company, 51st Infantry Brigade, 39th MP Company, 70th Coast Artillery Regiment (AA), Signal Corps units and installations, and Fighting French Forces. (Yves J. Bellanger)
U.S.S.R.: Moscow erroneously reports the death of a top German general, Paul von Kleist, in the Ukraine.
GREECE: US Army, Middle East Air Force B-24 Liberators bomb the Pylos Bay area, Pylos Island and Khalones during the night of 19/20 September. (Jack McKillop)
FRANCE: Paris: In a further retaliatory measure, all places of entertainment are closed and non-German citizens are curfewed until midnight tonight.
GERMANY: U-476 laid down.
U-274 and U-734 launched. (Dave Shirlaw)
UNITED KINGDOM: Minesweeper HMS Aries launched.
Escort carrier HMS Slinger launched. (Dave Shirlaw)
ATLANTIC OCEAN: U-156 sank SS Quebec City.
U-512 sank SS Monte Gorbea.
U-516 sank SS Wichita.
U-552 sank ASW trawler HMS Alouette. (Dave Shirlaw)
U.S.A.: Escort carrier USS Chenango commissioned. (Dave Shirlaw)
CANADA: Minesweeper HMCS Brockville commissioned.
Minesweeper HMCS Winnipeg launched Port Arthur, Ontario. (Dave Shirlaw)
Lae is the airfield where Amelia Erhart took off from before disappearing.
She was airborne for around for 20 hours before contact was lost.