John Curtin, Prime Minister of Australia, retained his position as the Australian Labor Party took 49 of 74 seats in the Australian House of Representatives and 19 out of 36 in the Australian Senate.
Australian troops on New Guinea took Komiatum, southwest of Salamaua.
Frankly Roosevelt and McKenzie King announced that U.S. and Canadian forces had retaken Kiska.
The recapture effectively put the continental United States and the Canadian provinces out of reach of Imperial Japanese forces.
Hal Block, Bob Hope, Barney Dean, Frances Langford and Tony Romano met General George S. Patton at a USO show in Sicily at which Patton asked Hope to tell his radio audience “that I love my men", perhaps hoping to counter the bad publicity that the slapping incident had caused.
You didn't see that in Patton.
From Sarah Sundin's blog:
Today in World War II History—August 21, 1943: First “UT” convoy sails from New York, heavily escorted convoys carrying troops to England in build-up for Operation Overlord (D-day).
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