Today in World War II History—July 13, 1942: Nazis massacre 5000 Jews in Rovno, Ukraine. Italian frogmen swim 5 km to Gibraltar and plant limpet mines, sinking three Allied ships.
And Feodor von Bock, as Sundin also reports on her blog, was relieved of command of Army Group B, although that became effective on July 15.
Von Bock was not a Nazi, and indeed personally disliked the Nazis, but he was also passive in regard to their atrocities within his command. That command included several officers who later were participants in the July 20 plot, which he was invited to participate in, but he declined to do so.
He was killed at the extreme end of the war when a vehicle he was in, along with his wife and stepdaughter, was strafed.
The German 21st Panzer division was repulsed by Australian and South African forces in an attack featuring heavy losses at Tel el Eisa and the El Alamein "box".
The USS Seadragon, still off of Cam Ranh Bay, sank the transport Shinyo Maru.
The RAF bombed Duisburg during thunderstorms, but missed the industrial areas.
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