Air Operations, Aleutians

Following nearly two weeks of impassable weather, 16 28th Composite Bomb Group bombers mount armed-reconnaissance flights to Kiska, where 2 bombers attack ground targets.

Air Operations, CBI

• 7th Heavy Bomb Group B-24s attack a bridge at Shweli.

Air Operations, Europe

• 9th Air Force Liberators bomb Sedes airfield in Greece and drop pamphlets addressed to the local population.

• 630 aircraft are sent to Wuppertal. Included in the total are 251 Lancasters, 171 Halifaxes, 101 Wellingtons, 98 Stirlings and 9 Mosquitos.
• This attack is aimed at the Elberfeld half of the city since the Barmen half had received extensive damage in an attack at the end of may. The Pathfinder marking is accurate and the Main Force bombing begins well but creepback becomes more pronounced the usual. 30 planes hit targets in the more western part of the Ruhr, Wuppertal being in the eastern part. Regardless, extensive damage is caused in the Elberfeld part. Estimates say as much as 94 percent of the Elberfeld part of Wuppertal is destroyed in this attack.

• 4 Mosquitos are sent to Duisburg, 4 Stirlings lay mines in the Gironde River and there are 7 OTU sorties.
• There are no losses.

First Landing on Shemya Island in the Aleutians by the AAF 24 June 1943.

Air Operations, Gilberts

3 VII Bomber Command B-24s stationed at Funafuti and 2 from Canton Island reconnoiter several atolls and islands.

Air Operations, New Guinea

V Bomber Command B-25s strafe the airfield at Salamaua and several nearby villages.

Air Operations, Solomons

During the night, XIII Bomber Command B-24s attack the airfield at Buka and targets around Kahili.

Battle of the Atlantic

Naval land-based aircraft (VP-84) sink the German submarine U-200 in the North Atlantic area.

Eastern Front

As the date of the attack looms closer, Hitler becomes increasingly worried at the prospect of failure, confessing to Goebbels that even if the Ostheer vanquishes the Red Army in this battle, the opinion of the neutral states in Europe will not be influenced. This is mainly aimed at Turkey, which Hitler has been trying to entice into the Axis camp since the war began.

India, Politics

In a broadcast from Tokyo, Bose makes an appeal for an armed uprising by Indians against the British. 'Civil disobedience must develop into armed struggle. And only when the Indian people receive the baptism of fire on a large scale will they qualify for their freedom.'

Italy, Home Front

Mussolini speaks in Rome to the Fascist Party Directorate on the threat of invasion.