10 Jun 1919
- USS Arizona arrived at Istanbul, Turkey and disembarked United States consul-at-large Leland F. Morris on board.
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10 Jun 1920
- Kiev, Ukraine was evacuated by the Polish forces and the Bolsheviks marched in.
- In Warsaw the Polish cabinet collapsed causing political turmoil and widespread panic; it would be two weeks before a new government was formed. Some factions pressed for peace negotiations with the Bolsheviks, but Pilsudski clung to the hope that the western Allies would come to Poland's assistance.
10 Jun 1921
- Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark (later Duke of Edinburgh) was born at Corfu, Greece.
10 Jun 1922
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- The keel of Naka was laid down by Mitsubishi-owned Yokohama Dock Company in Yokohama, Japan.
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10 Jun 1924
- Fascists kidnapped and killed Italian socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti in Rome, Italy; Matteotti had just accused the Fascists of fraud ten days earlier.
10 Jun 1934
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10 Jun 1939
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10 Jun 1940
- Norway surrendered to Germany.
» In-depth article - Italy declared war on France and the United Kingdom, to be effective on the following day.
- American cruiser USS Vincennes and destroyers USS Truxton and USS Simpson departed Casablanca, French Morocco for the United States with 200 tons of gold from the French reserves.
» In-depth article - German aircraft attacked and sank British armed boarding vessel HMS Vandyck off Andenes, Norway, killing 7. 161 survivors were taken prisoner after reaching shore.
- British transport ships of Group I reached Clyde, Scotland at 0600 hours with troops evacuated from Narvik, Norway.
- Franklin Roosevelt gave a speech at the graduation ceremony of the University of Virginia School of Law in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, declaring that the Italian declaration of war on France was like "the hand that held the dagger has struck it in the back of its neighbor". His son, Franklin Roosevelt, Jr., was among those who received degrees that day.
» In-depth article - The Gestapo organization took control of the Theresienstadt Fortress in occupied Czechoslovakia and began its conversion into a concentration camp.
» In-depth article - Canada declared war on Italy.
- Destroyer USS O'Brien arrived at Bahia, Brazil during her shakedown cruise.
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- Erwin Rommel's troops continued to march down the French coast, now west of Paris, France. To the east, Heinz Guderian's tanks advanced towards Chalons-sur-Marne, threatening Paris, causing the French government to move to Tours, declaring Paris an open city. In Operation Cycle, 3,321 Allied troops embarked aboard ships at St-Valery-en-Caux for evacuation, and 11,059 embarked ships at Le Havre to be transferred to Cherbourg for continued fighting. Off of Le Havre, British destroyers HMS Bulldog and HMS Boadicea were damaged by aircraft, killing 6. HMS Bulldog would have to be towed back and remained out of commission until Feb 1941.
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- Rear Admiral David M. LeBreton relieved Rear Admiral Charles E. Courtney as Commander of US Navy Squadron 40-T on board light cruiser USS Trenton at Lisbon, Portugal.
- US passenger liner Washington arrived at Lisbon, Portugal to embark Americans desiring passage to the United States via Ireland. Destroyer USS Dickerson arrived from French Morocco with Americans who wished to board the passenger liner.
10 Jun 1941
- Desperate for sources of raw materials, Japanese leadership was infuriated when the United States won the contract to purchase all the Tungsten mined in Bolivia over the next three years.
- Allied troops captured several villages in the French Mandate of Syria and the Lebanon as they advanced toward Beirut.
» In-depth article - British steamship Royal Scot hit an acoustic mine and sank in the Humber estuary on the eastern coast of England, United Kingdom. Patrol vessel HMS Pintail arrived to assist, but also struck a mine, sinking immediately; 55 were killed aboard Pintail, 22 survived.
- Lord Simon met with Rudolf Heß for 2.5 hours, during which Hess asked Lord Simon to work with the British government to negotiate peace with Germany.
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10 Jun 1942
- After sunset, an unidentified submarine fired two torpedoes at Yamato about 100 miles north-northeast of Minami-Torishima (Marcus Island). Yamato and the other ships in the Main Body turn to port and both torpedoes miss.
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» Tabular Record of Movement - German submarine U-157 sank US tanker Hagan just off the northern coast of Cuba, killing 6 of 44 aboard. German submarine U-94 attacked Allied convoy ONS-100 880 miles east of Newfoundland, at 0340 hours, sinking British ship Empire Clough (5 were killed, 44 survived) and British ship Ramsay (40 were killed, 7 survived). At the mouth of the Saint Lawrence River several kilometers off Anticosti Island, Quebec, Canada, U-553 sank British freighter Nicoya and then several hours later Dutch freighter Leto. In the evening, U-129 sank Norwegian ship LA Christensen 340 miles south of Bermuda at 2006 hours; all 31 aboard survived.
» In-depth article - A massive German 33-division offensive was launched from the Kharkov region of Ukraine.
- US patrol aircraft discovered the presence of Japanese troops on Kiska and Attu in the Aleutian Islands in the North Pacific. In Japan, the Information Bureau announced that during the Battle of Midway, one Japanese carrier and two US carriers were sunk; one Japanese carrier returned to Japan with some damage.
» In-depth article - German Stuka dive bombers preceded another assault on the French-held fort at Bir Hakeim, Libya, but the defense repulsed another infantry attack. By the end of the day, the French troops had practically run out of ammunition; at 2300 hours, Kœnig began the process to evacuate from the fort.
» In-depth article - At Auschwitz Concentration Camp, about 50 Polish prisoners in the penal company attempted to escape while working at a drainage ditch in Birkenau; it was the first mass escape in the history of the camp. 9 were able to escape successfully. In response, the SS guards executed 20 prisoners by firing squad and sent 300 prisoners from the penal company in the gas chamber.
» In-depth article - The US Army attached the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment to the 101st Airborne Division.
- German submarine U-107 sank US ship Merrimack 60 miles south of Cozumel, Mexico at about 0520 hours; 43 were killed, 10 survived. In the Caribbean Sea, U-68 sank British ship Ardenvohr at 0520 hours (1 was killed, 70 survived), British ship Surrey also at about 0520 hours (12 were killed, 55 survived), and British ship port Montreal shortly before 2359 hours (all 88 aboard survived, but 2 would die before being rescued).
» In-depth article - German submarine U-81 attacked Allied convoy AT-49 7 miles off the Egyptian coast 50 miles west of Alexandria, sinking British ship Havre at 0218 hours; 20 were killed, 30 survived). At 0456 hours, U-559 also attacked the same convoy, damaging Norwegian tanker Athene (detonating her store of aviation fuel which would lead to her sinking on 12 Jun 1942; 14 were killed, 17 survived) and damaging Royal Fleet Auxiliary oiler Brambleleaf (7 were killed, 53 survived).
- Soviet submarine D-3 became missing in the Barents Sea, probably lost in the Bantos-A minefield off Rybachy Peninsula near Murmansk, Russia or the Schpeer III minefield off Berlevog, Norway.
- HMS Dianthus rescued 32 survivors of British merchant ship Empire Clough in the Atlantic Ocean.
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- Tatsuta Maru arrived at Truk, Caroline Islands.
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- Czechoslovakian towns of Lidice and Lezáky, incorrectedly linked to the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, were wiped out per personal orders of Adolf Hitler; all males were murdered; all females were deported to the Ravensbrück concentration camp, and all buildings were leveled to the ground.
- The Italian Air Force formed the "Loreto" combat engineers battalion at Cameri airfield near Novara, Italy.
- Over Mteifel Chebir, Libya, Hans-Joachim Marseille shot down three P-40 fighters at 0735 hours, 0741 hours, and 0745 hours. At 0750 hours, at the far range of 500 feet, he shot down the Hurricane II fighter piloted by Pilot Officer A. J. Hancock. His score now stood at 81.
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- US Navy Task Force 18 was formed with carrier Wasp, battleship North Carolina, cruisers Quincy and San Juan, and 6 destroyers near the Panama Canal Zone.
- Soviet 2nd Shock Army, largely surrounded by German forces on the Volkhov River near Leningrad, Russia since mid-Jan 1942, began to extract itself from its disadvantageous position by using using grounds that were firming up due to the warmer weather.
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- German dive bombers sank Soviet destroyer Svobodnyy and transport Abkhaziya in port at Sevastopol, Ukraine.
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- The keel of submarine Escolar was laid down by the Cramp Shipbuilding Company at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
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10 Jun 1943
- The keel of what would become USS Blackfin was laid down.
» In-depth article - USAAF and RAF began a coordinated air offensive with the RAF over Europe, conducting area bombing at night and the USAAF flying precision bombing raids by day. The British Assistant Chief of the Air Staff noted that the primary objective of bombing campaign was "the destruction of German air-frame, engine and component factories and the ball-bearing industry on which the strength of the German fighter force depend" and the secondary objective was "the general disorganization of those industrial areas associated with the above industries".
» In-depth article - Doneff was commissioned into service.
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- USS Flying Fish damaged a Japanese transport off Japan, hitting her with 1 of 3 torpedoes fired.
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- The work to extend HMCS Trillium's forecastle at Boston Navy Yard, Massachusetts, United States was completed.
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10 Jun 1944
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- Yamato departed Tawi-Tawi for Batjan, Halmahera at 1600 hours for Operation KON; this was reported by American Submarine USS Harder. Shortly after, the Japanese fleet spotted a periscope and carried out evasive maneuvers that nearly resulted in a collision between Yamato and Musashi.
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» Tabular Record of Movement - The town of Oradour-sur-Glane in central France was destroyed. Nearly all of its 652 inhabitants were killed by troops of the SS Division Das Reich; only 10 survived the massacre with fire and machine gunning.
- USS Mingo arrived at Manus, Admiralty Islands for training.
» In-depth article - German SS troops massacred 218 civilians at Distomo, central Greece, in revenge for losing seven men in a partisan ambush.
- USS Hawkbill arrived at New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.
» In-depth article - Chinese troops captured Lungling, Yunnan Province, China.
» In-depth article - Former Chinese light cruiser Pinghai was renamed Yasoshima.
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- The US Eighth Army was activated in the United States under the command of Lieutenant General Robert Eichelberger.
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10 Jun 1945
- Australian troops landed at Brunei, Borneo and at Bougainville, Solomon Islands.
- Montgomery and Eisenhower were decorated with the Order of Victory by Marshal Zhukov in Germany.
» In-depth article - The Fletcher-class destroyer USS William D. Porter was sunk by a Japanese special attack aircraft off Okinawa, Japan.
- USS Flying Fish sank a Japanese cargo ship off the coast of Korea in the Sea of Japan, hitting her with 1 of 3 torpedoes fired.
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- USS Dragonet arrived at Guam, Mariana Islands, ending her second war patrol.
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- N. A. Korolev was made the head of Soviet TsGV Counterintelligence Directorate and Ya. A. Yedunov the head of SGV Counterintelligence Directorate.
- George Patton addressed a crowd of 100,000 civilians in Burbank, California, United States.
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10 Jun 1946
- Casablanca was decommissioned from service.
» In-depth article - USS Manta was decommissioned from service and was placed in the Pacific Reserve Fleet.
» In-depth article - The US III Amphibious Corps (IIIAC) was redesignated as Marine Forces, China, and greatly down-sized.
10 Jun 1951
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10 Jun 1960
- Submarine Puffer was relieved by submarine Bowfin as the training submarine of the US 13th Naval District.
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10 Jun 2008
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