Air Operations, CBICHINA
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Air Operations, East IndiesV Bomber Command B-25s mount a pre-dawn attack against Koepang, Timor. [![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Air Operations, EuropeRAF BOMBER COMMANDEvening Ops:
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Air Operations, GilbertsA VII Bomber Command B-24s reconnoiters several islands. [![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Air Operations, New Guinea
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Air Operations, SolomonsA V Bomber Command B-24 attacks targets of opportunity on Buka Island. A VF-11 F4F downs a G4M 'Betty' bomber near San Cristobal Island at 1600 hours. [![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Britain, PolicyThe BBC warns Belgians to stay away from industrial plants working for Germany. [![]() ![]() ![]() ![]()
Eastern FrontGERMAN COMMANDHitler sets July 3 as the date Operation CITADEL is to begin but soon reschedules this to July 5.
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Germany, PolicyHimmler orders the liquidation of Jewish ghettos in German-occupied Russia. Simultaneously, German execution teams begin carrying out the murder of Jews in the Lwow ghetto. In the next week 20,000 Jews are killed. SS Chief Himmler orders: 'All Jews who may still be found in ghettos in the Ostland must be confined in concentration camps. All non-essential inhabitants of the Jewish ghettos are to be referred to the East. The reorganization in concentration camps is to be completed by August 1, 1943.' 'Referred to the East' means extermination, although those Jews who can work will be kept alive to serve the German economy. Further to Himmler's orders, a number of ghettos were liquidated: Bialystok in August; Vilna and Minsk in September; and Riga in November. Inexplicably, two ghettos in Lithuania-Kovno (Kaunas) and Shavli (Siauliai) were left intact until mid-1944. [![]() ![]() ![]() ![]()
New GeorgiaThe US begins its offensive to retake New Georgia Operation TOENAILS. An air and naval bombardment pounds Japanese positions, while the waters around New Georgia are mined to prevent Japanese reinforcements. The 4th Marine Raider Bn lands at Segi Point at the southern tip of New Georgia. There is no Japanese garrison there and the Marines are reinforced without incident on June 22. [![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Occupied FranceJean Moulin, a French Resistance leader, is arrested by the Gestapo after he was betrayed. [![]() ![]() ![]() ![]()
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