Air Operations, Carolines
Air Operations, CBIBURMA
Air Operations, Europe(Return flight?)The Rumanian airfield at Focsani is raided by planes from 15th Air Force from Italy. After bombing the planes fly on to Russia. This is the first 'shuttle' raid of this pattern. RAF BOMBER COMMANDEvening Ops:
Air Operations, Marianas
Air Operations, New Guinea
AtlanticUS LST-496 sinks when it hits a mine in the Normandy area. The US ocean tug Partridge (ATO-138) is sunk by torpedo also in the Normandy area. [ | ]Battle of the AtlanticThe last remaining supply U-boat, U-490, is sunk in the North Atlantic area by aircraft (VC-95) from the US escort carrier Croatan (CVE-25) and the destroyer escorts Frost (DE-144), Huse (DE-145) and Inch (DE-146). [ | ]ChinaThe Japanese penetrate in force across the Liu-yang River, meeting little resistance from the Chinese forces in the 11th war zone. [ | ]Eastern FrontFollowing up their offensive against the Mannerheim Line, the Leningrad Front armies penetrate 15 miles into the Finnish lines on a front of 30 miles. The Finnish 10th Div retreats behind the 'VT Line' (Vammelsuu-Taipale) across the Karelian Isthmus. FINNISH SECTORThe 23rd Army joins the offensive. Fighting is bitter as the heavily outnumbered Finns fight to halt the Soviet onslaught. Despite repeated counterattacks each Finnish position is overwhelmed, Soviet forces drawing close to the second defense line. By evening the first defense line collapses, forcing the Finns northward. [ | ]ItalyIn the French Expeditionary Corps sector the 1st Motorized Div captures Montefiascone, west of Viterbo, and the 3rd Algerian Div enters Valentano. The South African 6th Arm Div fails to overcome German resistance below Bagnoregio. Another armored division, the British 6th, crosses the Galantina River and reaches Cantalupo, which the Germans have already abandoned. [ | ]MarianasVice-Adm Mitscher's TF 58 with 9 fleet and 6 light carriers sends fighter strikes against Japanese shipping and installations on Saipan, Tinian, Guam, Pagan and Rota in the Marianas group. 36 Japanese planes are shot down. The 7 battleships of Adm Lee's TG 58.7 provide close escort. Japanese shipping also comes under attack from TG 58.4. 3 minor warships and 30,000 tons of merchant shipping are sunk by the aircraft. The operations continue. Adm Spruance, in overall command of the Marianas campaign, is present on board the cruiser Indianapolis. Over the next 3 days the Americans win complete air superiority, bringing down or destroying on the ground between 150 and 200 Japanese aircraft. [ | ]Molucca IslandsVice-Adm Matome Ugaki, commander of the Japanese fleet at sea, orders the 2 giant battleships Yamato and Musashi (72,800t fully laden) with cruiser and destroyer escort to Bacan to strike a decisive blow at MacArthur's 7th Amphibious Force. But just as this powerful force is about to sail it receives orders to head for the Marianas. []New GuineaThe US 186th and 162nd Inf Regts go over to the attack and reach a point a little more than 1,000 yards from the west side of the runway on Mokmer airfield. Captured Javanese laborers speak of Japanese positions in caves about three-quarters of a mile northwest of units of the US 162nd Regt.
[ | ] PacificThe Japanese submarine RO-111 is sunk by the US destroyer Taylor (DD-468) north of the Bismarck Archipelago. [ | ]Western FrontWhile the US 90th Div continues its slow advance west of the Merderet River, the 101st Airborne Div mounts the decisive attack on Carentan. During the night, under deadly fire from the American artillery, the Germans leave the town. Carentan is occupied, but it is not long before the enemy endeavors to re-take it. In the US V Corps sector units of the 2nd Arm Div are ordered to reinforce the bridgehead at Auville-sur-le-Vey as long as the 101st Airborne Div continues to be engaged at Carentan. There is a lull on the rest of the US V Corps front. The 7th Arm Div, XXX Corps, British 2nd Army, encounters fierce resistance around Tilly-sur-Seulles from the German Panzerlehr Div, which takes advantage of the vegetation and the nature of the terrain to adopt guerrilla tactics, lying concealed, advancing rapidly, then retiring unexpectedly. The British manage to take Tilly, but then a sudden German counterattack drives them from the village. East of Caen, too, where the British I Corps is operating, the Allied situation is difficult; counter-attacks here by the German LXXXVI Corps have halted their advance. [ | ]Images from June 11, 1944
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