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Japan formally apologizes for sinking the American gunboat Tutuila in Chungking, China, on 30 July.
1 Aug.
President Roosevelt places an embargo on the export of all motor fuel oils outside the Western Hemisphere except to the British Empire.
8 Aug.
Vichy military observers estimate the casualties from the first forty-eight days of the German invasion of the Soviet Union to be 1.5 million Axis troops and 2 million Russians.
19 Aug.
German troops lay siege to Odessa.
21 Aug.
In Paris two Communists are executed, and thousands more so-called Communists and anarchists are arrested as the Germans crack down on the Resistance. By the end of the month eleven more suspected Resistance members are executed, and in Paris alone thousands of Jews are rounded up for deportation to Nazi concentration camps.
25 Aug.
Responding to increasing Axis infiltration, Soviet and British troops invade Iran.
28 Aug.
The Vichy regime executes three more suspected Resistance fighters; on 29 August...
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