US NAVY
PACIFIC—USAAF B-17s, B-24s, and an LB-30 (11th Air Force)
bomb Japanese shipping in Kiska harbor, sinking fleet tanker Nissan Maru, 51°58'N,
177°40'E.
Japanese
cargo ship Tairyu Maru is stranded and wrecked off Gyoji Island, Korea,
34°33'N, 125°53'E.
ATLANTIC—U.S. freighter Seattle Spirit is torpedoed
by German submarine U-124 at 50°23'N, 42°25'W; four merchant seamen
perish in the attack. Survivors (33 merchant sailors, the 11 man Armed Guard
and seven passengers) are rescued by steamship Perth and Canadian
corvette HMCS Agassiz. Agassiz scuttles the irreparably damaged
merchantman with gunfire.
Cuban boats
rescue survivors of U.S. freighter Millinocket, torpedoed and sunk by
German submarine U-129 the previous day.
Naval Air
Facility, La Fe, Cuba, is established.
US ARMY AIR FORCE
INTERNATIONAL—Churchill arrives in Washington for series of
conferences (until 25 Jun) with Roosevelt. Subjects discussed include war
production, shipping, help for China, diversion of Germany from Eastern Front, and
atomic research.
EIGHTH AF—HQ opens in London with General Spaatz
commanding. Air Ministry publishes tentative list of 87 airfields to be made
ready for Eighth AF.
ELEVENTH AF—1 LB-30, 3 B‑17’s and 4 B‑24’s make a precision
high-altitude attack on Kiska Harbor. A transport is left burning and sinking,
another is mauled, and 2 scout planes are possibly shot down. 1 B‑24 crashes at
sea; part of its crew is saved.
US ARMY
UNITED STATES—Prime
Minister Churchill arrives for series of Anglo-American conferences with
President Roosevelt in Washington.
LIBYA—Axis forces drive to Gambut. This is a blow to the
Tobruk garrison, since air support from forward landing grounds in Gambut area
is now denied the garrison.
USSR—Germans report reduction, after 12 days of hard
fighting, of northern part of Sevastopol fortifications except for one coastal
fort.
UNITED KINGDOM—General Spaatz, in London, takes command of
U.S. Eighth Air Force.
US MARINE CORPS
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