Air Operations, Aleutians

Guided by a radar-equipped Patrol Wing 4 PV, 6 28th Composite Bomb Group B-24s attack Kiska.

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.

Junkers Ju-88 engaged in night operations over Russia. Note the black paint daubed over the national markings and unit identification letters.

Junkers Ju-88 in Night Operations

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 on a raid over Darwin in June 1943 taken from a RAAF Spitfire gun camera (Photo

Australian War Memorial)

Japanese Mitsubishi G4M1 Betty Bombers Over Darwin

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.

Battle of the Atlantic

• The US submarine chaser PC-496 hits a mine and sinks in the Atlantic Ocean area.
• The British submarine is on patrol north of the Faroes when she is warned that a number of outbound submarines would be passing through her area. U-308 is sighted and after MkVIII torpedoes are fired, she is seen sinking.

U-308 Class Type VIIC CO Oberleutnant zur See Karl Muhkenfordt Location N Atlantic, NE of Faroe Islands Cause Submarine attack Casualties 44 Survivors None

U-594 Class Type VIIC CO Kapitänleutnant Friedrich Mumm Location Atlantic, S of Cape St Vincent Cause Air attack Casualties 50 Survivors None

• U-594 is attacked and sunk by Hudson 'F' of No 48 Squadron. In the first attack four rockets are fired but went over the submarine. The aircraft fired four more with at least one hitting the U-boat causing enough damage to sink her.

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.