The Panzerkampfwagen VI, famously known as the Tiger, or in this instance the Tiger I tank, made its battlefield appearance outside of Leningrad. The Soviets were making a determined effort to relieve the city.
The Tiger was a feared German weapon, and justifiably so. Classified as a heavy tank, with much more armor than previous German tanks, and armed with an 88 mm main gun, it can be regarded as one of the first tanks, along with the T34, that pointed the way towards the Main Battle Tank of the post-war period, although that concept was still years away. Indeed, it might be better able to claim the position of having essentially occupied that role prior to any other tank.
1,347 were made during the war. Mechanically complicated due to over engineering, it had a high breakdown rate. It was so feared by the Western Allies that troops routinely reported German tanks to be Tigers, no matter what they actually were.
On the same day the Soviet Air Force bombed Berlin in a nighttime raid using 100 Petlyakov Pe-8, Ilyshin II-4 and Yermolayev Yer 2 bombers. A small party of Pe-8s bombed Königsberg.
The first class of officers for the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps graduated.
The Saturday Evening Post featured P38 Lightenings on its cover.
I failed to note the August 1, 1942, cover, which featured a cover illustration of a Marine in the newly adopted herringbone tweed cotton dungarees. The Marine in question is wearing the Marine's khaki summer shirt underneath his hbt jacket, and it was in fact a jacket. It was rarely worn that way, however, typically being worn as simply a shirt. He's also wearing the M1 helmet and carrying a M1903 Springfield, all of which was typical gear at this point in the war and all of which reflected the appearance of the average Marine going into Guadalcanal.
Worth noting, however, is that at this point the hbt uniform was so new the Marines only issued a single set to its men. Marines landing at Guadalcanal had only one, that is, set of hbt dungarees.
The Red Cross announced that the Japanese had refused the free passage of ships carrying food and medicine to American POWs.
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