August: Political Warfare Executive is formed in the United Kingdom.

August 1: First production Willys MB U.S. Army Jeep.

August 6: Six-year-old Elaine Esposito goes to an appendix operation in Florida and lapses into a coma, dying 37 years later, still comatose.

August 7: British submarine HMS Severn sinks an Italian Marconi class submarine.

August 9: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill meet at Argentia, Newfoundland and Labrador. The Atlantic Charter is created as a result.

August 16: HMS Mercury Royal Navy Signals School and Combined Signals School opens at Leydene, near Petersfield, Hampshire, England.

August 18: Adolf Hitler orders a temporary halt to Nazi Germany's systematic euthanasia of the mentally ill and handicapped due to protests. However, graduates of the T-4 Euthanasia Program are then transferred to concentration camps, where they continue in their trade.

August 22: France: The German Occupation Authority announces that anyone working for or aiding the Free French will be sentenced to death.

August 24: A Luftwaffe bomb hits an Estonian steamer with 3,500 Soviet-mobilized Estonian men on board, killing 598 of them.

August 25: Operation Countenance begins with United Kingdom and Soviet forces invading Iran.

August 27: Pierre Laval is shot in an assassination attempt at Versailles, France.

August 28: The Soviet Union announces blowing up of the massive Dnieper Hydroelectric Station and dam at Zaporizhia to prevent its capture by the Germans.

August 31: The Great Gildersleeve debuts on NBC Radio. (source: Wikipedia)