Aided by Ultra, Montgomery plans a heavy reception for an Afrika Korps attack he knows to be coming. In the Battle of Alam el Halfa Rommel, on this day, finds his forces caught in dense minefields and bombed by a combined air effort by the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force. The battle would continue until September 5.
The Red Army also found itself oppressed from the air, in this case in their effort to relieve Leningrad, which started to grind to a halt.
Japanese assaults at the Isurava Rest House on Papua caused the Australians to withdraw from the location to Eora.
The Japanese landed 1,000 troops overnight at Guadalcanal, as well as sinking the US fast transport ship USS Colhoun.
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