Today in World War II History—August 19, 1941
Thursday, August 19, 2021 by Sarah Sundin

Squadron Leader Douglas Bader, CO of No. 242 Squadron, seated on his Hawker Hurricane at Duxford, September 1940 (Imperial War Museum: CH 1406)
80 Years Ago—Aug. 19, 1941: An RAF bomber, with permission of the Luftwaffe, drops a replacement prosthetic leg at St. Omer, France, for captured RAF pilot Douglas Bader.
Off Ireland, German U-boat U-201 sinks British passenger ship Aguila (153/168 killed, including 21 “Wrens”—Women’s Royal Naval Service—and one British nurse).