Air Operations, Bismarcks3rd Light Bomb Group A-20s attack barges and shore targets along the New Britain coast. [ | ]Air Operations, East IndiesV Bomber Command B-25s attack Koepang and Oeikoesi, Timor. [ | ]Air Operations, EuropeRAF BOMBER COMMANDEvening Ops:
Air Operations, MediterraneanNaples is hit in a night attack by the RAF. [ | ]Air Operations, New Guinea3rd Light Bomb Group A-20s attack shore emplacements and barges along the northeast coast. [ | ]Air Operations, Solomons
Canada, Home FrontMadame Chiang Kai-shek addresses Parliament. [ | ]Eastern FrontGERMAN COMMANDGuderian reports to Hitler that the new Panther tanks are encountering teething problems. Hitler maintains that the Panther is vital to the success of CITADEL and presses them into service regardless, despite Guderian's arguments to the contrary. [ | ]Japan, Home FrontTojo tells the Japanese Diet that the war situation has reached a critical stage. [ | ]Operation HUSKYThe first convoys for the invasion of Sicily leave the United States. On June 17 the first units of the supporting naval force set out from the British Home Fleet base at Scapa Flow. SolomonsAmerican headquarters decide on the first objective to be taken in the central Solomons as a preliminary to the attack on the main objective, which is the Munda air field on New Georgia. The operation is to begin June 30. About 120 Japanese aircraft attack Guadalcanal and shipping in the waters off the island, damaging 2 warships and a transport, the cargo ship Celeno (AK-76), which has to be grounded to prevent it sinking. One of the other ships damaged in the attack is the LST 340. They pay dearly for this comparatively successful operation. US fighters from Henderson Field claim to have shot down 93(107?) aircraft from the Japanese attacking force of 120. Only 6 US planes are lost.
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