Chronology of World War II
Monday, June 15
Spectators at Virginia Beach Witness Exploding Mines
Startled spectators from the Virginia Beach oceanfront to the Hotel Chamberlin at Old Point Comfort looked on with horror on the afternoon of June 15, 1942 when a series of German mines laid at the entrance to the Chesapeake Bay began to explode, ultimately sinking three ships, damaging another.