[Sailor Steve]

The game originally started on September 1, the first day of the war. Many of us pointed out that a bunch of u-boats were assigned to be on station that day, so departed two weeks earlier. The game can be modified to allow a starting date of the first of any month of the war (stock game only allows for Sept '39, or the first day of 1940, '41, '42 or '43) but it can't be made to start you on August 19, so GWX3 does the best it can with what it was given.

So, you can select Sept 1 as your starting date if you want, or August as some of us do.