US NAVY
ARCTIC—U.S. freighter Yaka is damaged by near-misses
when German aircraft bomb Allied shipping at Murmansk, USSR. There are no
casualties among the 38 merchant seamen or 11 man Armed Guard.
MEDITERRANEAN—Operation HARPOON: convoy WS 19Z (Force X)
stands toward Malta, detected by Axis reconnaissance aircraft. Italian torpedo
bombers flying from Sardinia fail to make contact, however, and Italian fleet
units that sortie from Cagliari put into Palermo, Sicily, when their presence
is reported by British submarines (see 14June).
ATLANTIC—German submarine U-584 puts four agents
ashore at Amagansett, Long Island, New York. Coast Guard beach patrolman,
however, detects the landing and FBI men capture the agents.
Coast
Guard cutter Thetis (WPC-115) sinks German submarine U-157 north
of Cuba, 24°13'N, 82°03'W.
CARIBBEAN—U.S. freighter Solon Thurman is torpedoed
and sunk by German submarine U-159 off the Panama Canal Zone,10°45'N,
80°24'W. The 44 merchant seamen and 9 Armed Guards all abandon ship; U-159's
officers query the survivors and offer them aid before departing (see 14
June).
US ARMY AIR FORCE
FIFTH AF—B‑17’s hit airfield at Rabaul.
ELEVENTH AF—An Light Bomber-30 flies weather mission and
for the third straight day Kiska Harbor shipping is bombed by 5 B‑ 17’s and 3 B‑24’s.
2 Heavy Bombers turn back. The others bomb partially cloud-obscured targets. No
effect observed.
US ARMY
UNITED STATES—General
Marshall orders establishment of a U.S. Middle East organization, U.S. Army
Forces in the Middle East (USAFIME), in order to unify Middle East missions.
Iraq and Iran are to come within its geographical sphere. German submarine
lands 4 enemy agents on beach at Amagansett, Long Island.
LIBYA—Axis armor decisively defeats armor of British Eighth
Army, forcing British from escarpment between El Adem and Knightsbridge. British
tank strength is dangerously depleted, and 13 Corps supply line is consequently
in danger. Knightsbridge garrison (201st Guards Brigade) is ordered to withdraw
to Acroma.
US MARINE CORPS
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