Air Operations, Aleutians
Guided by a radar-equipped Patrol Wing 4 PV, 6 28th Composite Bomb Group B-24s attack Kiska.
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]Air Operations, East Indies
V Bomber Command B-25s attack Koepang and Lautem, Timor.
[ | ]Air Operations, Europe
- There is a night raid on Gorki (Nishny Novgorod), a great tank manufacturing center on the Volga east of Moscow. This is the first in a series of strategic raids by the Luftwaffe on industrial centers along the Volga during June.
- B-24s bomb the Grossaglie airfield in southern Italy.
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| ]Air Operations, Mediterranean
Wellington bombers make a night raid on the Milo airfield in Sicily.
[ | ]Air Operations, New Guinea
V Bomber Command B-17s and B-24s attack the airfields at Boram, Dagua, and Wewak.
[ | ] Japanese Mitsubishi G4M1 Betty Bombers Over Darwin |
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Battle of the Atlantic
The US submarine chaser PC-496 hits a mine and sinks in the Atlantic Ocean area.
[ | ]Algeria
Gen de Gaulle and Gen Giraud both broadcast to the French people from Algiers.
[]Argentina
Pres Ramon S. Castillo is toppled in a military coup.
[ | ]Eastern Front
The Luftwaffe bombs the massive Soviet tank factory at Gorki.
[ | ]German Raiders
The last German auxiliary cruiser still operational, Michel, leaves Yokohama, Japan, for her second cruise under the command of Kapitän zur See Günther Gumprich.
[ | ]Mediterranean
For the next week, Pantelleria is very heavily bombarded by air and from the sea.
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