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August 19, 1997

The 5th and 7th Kenyan Rifles Battalion and the 76th Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, supported by Kenyan light attack aircraft, bring the attack on Mombasa to a halt just outside artillery range of the city. A small force of Tanzanian tanks and APCs manages to penetrate inside the city but is surrounded and then destroyed as it runs out of ammunition.

Unofficially,

The Air Force staff authorizes the formation of a second and third Midgetman missile squadron headquarters. Personnel are assigned from the training system as well as some airmen from the already existing squadron.

The KGB regional director in Vladivostok decides to send Soryeong Rhee, the top ROKAF ace, to Moscow, figuring his troop's actions in capturing him is likely to lead him to a more important position than being stuck as far as possible from Moscow.

With 23rd Army's momentum broken, losses mounting and supplies in the dispersed detachments running low, the commander of the US 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment orders a staged withdrawal back to the its start lines. The retreat is relentlessly pursued by the aggressive Soviet paratroops, who push the cavalry back to the Polish border before running low on supplies themselves.

In southeastern Poland, Polish troops are making steady progress in forcing NATO forces north, away from the slopes of the Carpathians. NATO troops hold the vital rail line that runs east from Krakow, over which much of the German Third Army's supplies travel.

The Sierra-class attack submarine K-534 sinks another tanker in the Arabian Sea, the Sunco Charger bound for refineries in the Far East, with a trio of torpedos.