Monday, August 3, 2015

Lithuania Joins Soviet Union

SAT 3 AUG 1940
USSR annexes Lithuania as a Soviet Socialist Republic.

Rear Admiral H. Kent Hewitt relieves Rear Admiral John W. Wilcox, Jr., as Commander Special Service Squadron on board gunboat Erie (PG-50).

Destroyers Walke (DD-416) and Wainwright (DD-420) depart Buenos Aires, Argentina, for Santos, Brazil.

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