Rittmeister Eberhard von Breitenbuch, an aid to Generalfeldmarschall Ernst Busch, accompanied the latter who had been summoned to brief Adolf Hitler to a briefing. Part of what would become the July 20 Plot, he carried a Browning pocket pistol with him in order to assassinate the German Führer, something he had worked out with senior plotter Henning von Tresckow as he was opposed to what others preferred, a suicide bomb. He as allowed into the Berghof but wasn't allowed into the conference rooms by the SS, which had determined not to allow in aides.
Unlike many involved in the various German military efforts to assassinate Hitler, Von Breitenbuch was not a career officer. A forester before the war, and again after, he was part of the cavalry branch, a typical branch for those involved in forestry.
A member of the Order of St. John, the Protestant branch of the Knights Hospitallers, he survived the war and died in 1980 at age 70.
British forces took Buthidaung in Burma.
Reconnaissance forces land on Manus Island and Butjo Luo in the Admiralty Islands and meet Japanese resistance.
The U-380 and U-410 were sunk in their pens at Toulon in an American air raid. Former Italian submarine UIT-22, now in the service of the German's, was sunk off of the Cape of Good Hope by a Royal Air Force PBY.
A conscientious objector from Laramie was sent to a detention center. Attribution: Wyoming History Calendar.
People have a widespread idea that conscientious objectors simply didn't serve during World War Two. In reality, their fate was much more difficult, quite frequently. 70,000 American men applied for conscientious objector status during World War Two, and about half of them received it, with most of them receiving some sort of alternative service.
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