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Today in World War II History—August 27, 1942

Saturday, August 27, 2022 by Sarah Sundin
Battleship USS Iowa ready for launching, New York Navy Yard, NY, Aug 1942 (US National Archives: 80-G-K-13507)

Battleship USS Iowa ready for launching, New York Navy Yard, NY, Aug 1942 (US National Archives: 80-G-K-13507)

80 Years Ago—Aug. 27, 1942: In Portuguese East Africa, Japanese and British exchange one thousand interned Allied civilians for Japanese diplomats, supplies, and Red Cross parcels for Allied POWs.

Battleship USS Iowa is launched, New York Navy Yard, NY (currently a museum ship in Long Beach, CA).

Movie premiere of drama Somewhere I’ll Find You, starring Lana Turner & Clark Gable, his last film before enlisting.

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