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• Alan Turing was born in Maida Vale, London, England, United Kingdom. ww2dbase [Alan Turing | London, England | CPC]

• Victor Emmanuel Chapman, flying with the Escadrille Lafayette volunteer group, became the first American pilot to be killed in action when he was shot down near Verdun, France. ww2dbase [AC]

• British Major General Maynard and his command arrived at Murmansk, Russia after a 5-day journey from Britain. ww2dbase [AC]

• Joseph Stilwell stepped down as the Assistant Chief of Staff, G-1, US 4th Corps in Cochem, Germany. ww2dbase [Joseph Stilwell | Cochem | CPC]

• Joseph Rochefort requested transfer to Mare Island Naval Shipyard at Vallejo, California, United States, noting that its proximity to the University of California would allow him to take Japanese language courses; the request would be denied. ww2dbase [Joseph Rochefort | California | CPC]

• Tatsuta Maru departed Yokohama, Japan with some of the athletes participating in the 1932 Olympics. ww2dbase [Tatsuta Maru | Yokohama, Kanagawa | CPC]

• Hermann Göing issued a police directive to suppress all activities of the Social Democratic Party, including meetings and press, and ordered confiscation of all its property. ww2dbase [Hermann Göring | CPC]

• Clifton Cates completed his studies at the Army Industrial College in Washington DC, United States. ww2dbase [Clifton Cates | Washington | CPC]

• Franklin Roosevelt was nominated for second term as US President at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. ww2dbase [Franklin Roosevelt | CPC]

• US President Roosevelt approved a measure which specified the size of the active list of the US Marine Corps to be 2% of the active US Navy enlisted men. This act slightly increased the authorized strength of the US Marine Corps from 27,400 to 27,497. ww2dbase [Franklin Roosevelt | CPC]
• Sir Henry Self, Contracts director at the British Air Ministry, signed a order with Lockheed for 175 Model B14 Hudson aircraft with a provision for a maximum of 250 by December 1939. It was the largest British military order placed with a US Company to date. ww2dbase [A-29 Hudson | AC]

• Martin Bormann issued a secret order to the German Minister of Education to suppress Divinity Schools. ww2dbase [CPC]
• Pope Pius XII reached an agreement with Brazilian President Getúlio Vargas for Brazil to issue 3,000 visas to allow non-Aryan Catholics, some of whom were Jews recently converted to Catholicism to escape prosecution, to travel to Brazil. Ultimately, however, only under 1,000 visas would be issued. ww2dbase [Pius XII | CPC]
• The country of Siam was officially renamed Thailand. ww2dbase [CPC]
• Hermann Göring headed up the Reich Defense Council in Germany to plan for total mobilization of the country for war. Minister of Economics Walther Funk offered the idea of using future prisoners of war as forced laborers, while SS chief Heinrich Himmler offered his prisoners in concentration camps for the same propose. ww2dbase [Hermann Göring | CPC]

• USS Nashville departed Norfolk, Virginia, United States. ww2dbase [Nashville | Norfolk, Virginia | CPC]

• Battleship Bismarck entered floating drydock No. V-VI to install propellers and the MES magnetic system. ww2dbase [Bismarck | CPC]
• Using information from Italian submarine Galileo Galilei (captured on 19 Jun), British sloop HMS Shoreham located Italian submarine Evangelista Torricelli and forced her to surface with depth charges. Evangelista Torricelli engaged three British destroyers, HMS Kandahar, HMS Kingston, and HMS Khartoum, with her deck gun, but was sunk near Perim Island at the mouth of the Red Sea. Later in the day, HMS Khartoum was badly damaged when one of her own torpedoes explodes on deck, killing one. Khartoum was beached on Perim Island to prevent sinking, but she would eventually be declared lost. ww2dbase [CPC]
• French Army Commander-in-Chief General Maxime Weygand expelled Charles de Gaulle from the French Army. ww2dbase [Charles de Gaulle | CPC]
• German submarine U-99, damaged on 21 Jun by German battlecruiser Scharnhorst in a friendly fire incident, was en route to Wilhelmshaven, Germany for repairs when she was bombed by friendly aircraft twice on this date; she suffered only minor additional damage. ww2dbase [CPC]
• The German ambassador in Spain noted that the Duke of Windsor, the former King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, was traveling through Portugal. ww2dbase [CPC]
• Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov sent German Ambassador Friedrich Werner von der Schulenburg a message noting that the Soviet Union would like to gain Bessarabia and Bukovina from Romania. This greatly alarmed the German OKW as the German military was dependent on Romania as a source of oil and fodder. ww2dbase [Soviet Demands on Romania and the Second Vienna Arbitration | CPC]
• The British Long Range Desert Patrol (later to become the Long Range Desert Group) was formed under the command of Major Ralph Bagnold to undertake long-range reconnaissance patrols behind Italian lines in North Africa. ww2dbase [AC]

• The lifeboat containing the four survivors of Dutch motor tanker Moordrecht, sunk by German submarine U-48 three days prior, were picked up by the Greek steam merchant Orion. ww2dbase [HM]
• The survivors of Norwegian steam merchant ship Randsfjord, torpedoed by German submarine U-30 on the previous day, was picked up by the British steam merchant Port Hobart in the Celtic Sea. ww2dbase [Celtic Sea | HM]

• Adolf Hitler arrived in Paris, France and did some sightseeing early in the morning; this would be his only visit to Paris. Although Germany and France had already signed an armistice, fighting between Italy and France continued while French delegates negotiated in Rome; General Huntzinger, who signed the German-French armistice at Compiègne on 22 Jun, was once again the a member of the French delegation. ww2dbase [Invasion of France and the Low Countries | Paris | TH]

• Destroyer USS Herbert departed Casablanca, French Morocco for to Lisbon, Portugal with American refugees. ww2dbase [Casablanca | CPC]

• Jaguar completed escorting battleship Scharnhorst from Norway to Kiel, Germany. ww2dbase [Scharnhorst | Jaguar | Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein | CPC]

• Portuguese police arrested American 30 sailors of light cruiser USS Trenton in a street brawl in Santo Amaro Oerias outside of Lisbon. Three Americans were injured during the arrest. ww2dbase [Santo Amaro Oerias | CPC]

• 11 survivors of Finnish freighter Hilda, sunk by German submarine U-52 in the Bay of Biscay two days prior, reached Castro Urdiales, Spain aboard a lifeboat. ww2dbase [Castro Urdiales, Cantabria | HM]

• Comandante Cappellini departed Ceuta, Spain at 2330 hours without being detected by the British. ww2dbase [Comandante Cappellini | Ceuta | CPC]

• The 294-ton steam tug HMS Coringa was lost while on British Admiralty service but it was never explained what happened. Accounts from researchers and anecdotal accounts stated she was bombed in the Bristol Channel. ww2dbase [Start of the Battle of the Atlantic | Bristol Channel | HM]

23 Jun 1940 Interactive Map

• Slovakia declared war on the Soviet Union. ww2dbase [TH]
• US Navy Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Harold Stark ordered the 1st Defense Battalion of the Fleet Marine Force of the US Marine Corps to be established at Wake Island as soon as possible. ww2dbase [Harold Stark | CPC]
• The German 6th Panzer Division encountered Soviet KV tanks for the first time at the Dubysa River in Lithuania. German General Reinhard was surprised to learn that the Soviet military possessed such a heavy tank, especially after learning that some German 105-millimeter shells were bouncing off the thick armor, and that some KV tanks had reportedly crushed German vehicles and guns by driving over them. ww2dbase [Kliment Voroshilov | CPC]
• The 5,000 man 1st Greek Brigade was established by the British in Palestine under the command of Colonel Ev. Antoniou. The Brigade (under Colonel Pafsanias Katsotas) would later see action in 1942 at El Alamein in Egypt as a part of the British 50th Division. ww2dbase [AC]

• The 5,265-ton merchant steamer Trelissick was bombed and sunk by German aircraft 3.5 miles off the Sheringham Buoy in the North Sea off the Norfolk coast, England, United Kingdom. She was making her way in ballast from London to the River Tyne, Northumberland. ww2dbase [North Sea | HM]
• The 3,039-ton German motor vessel Alstertor was on voyage for France with about 200 British, Chinese, Indian and Malayan prisoners off two British ships which were sunk by the German merchant cruiser Atlantis. She was spotted by British aircraft west of Portugal; the aircraft were searching for the battleship Bismarck and cruiser Prinz Eugen. The destroyers HMS Faulknor, Fearless, Forester, Foresight, Foxhound and Marsdale all converged on the German vessel. The German crew then became the prisoners of the British as they surrendered after setting scuttling charges. She sank south of Cape Finnisterre. ww2dbase [HM]
• Converted trawler-minesweeper HMT Nogi was attacked and sunk by German aircraft north of Cromer, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom. ww2dbase [North Sea | HM]
• Leonardo da Vinci came across an abandoned lifeboat with the marking Nord Deutscher Lloyd in the Atlantic Ocean at 1236 hours. Later in the evening, she received a signal from Bordeaux, France to carry out a search and rescue mission for German survivors of the supply ship Alstertor. ww2dbase [Leonardo da Vinci | CPC]
• German supply ship Alstertor was scuttled by her crew in the Atlantic Ocean at 1635 hours to avoid being captured by the British; her entire crew as well as the 79 prisoners aboard were picked up by British destroyers Faulknor, Fearless, and Fury. Not knowing that all survivors were already picked up by the British, at 2100 hours, Italian submarine Maggiore Baracca was ordered to search for survivors, and she would find none when she arrived to the area about 3 hours later. ww2dbase [Maggiore Baracca | CPC]

• Soviet destroyer Gnevniy hit a mine and sank off the island of Hiiumaa, Estonia. ww2dbase [CPC]

• Soviet destroyer Bystryb hit a mine and sank in the Black Sea off Sevastopol, Russia. ww2dbase [CPC]

• The Soviet Army armored counter attack near Tilsit, Ostpreußen, Germany (now Sovetsk, Russia) was beaten back. Meanwhile, German forces crossed the Bug River, penetrating 50 miles beyond the Soviet lines. From the air, German Luftwaffe aircraft destroyed another 1,200 Soviet aircraft on this day. ww2dbase [Operation Barbarossa | Ostpreußen | TH]
• German Gestapo leader Mueller issued directives to the Gestapo office in the city of Tilsit, Germany (now Sovetsk, Russia) to set up Einsatkommando Tilsit which would be responsible for killing Jews in Lithuania. ww2dbase [Tilsit, Ostpreußen | CPC]
• Adolf Hitler arrived for the first time at his new secret Wolfsschanze (English: The Wolf's Lair) headquarters, which had been constructed in the Masurian woods near Rastenburg, Germany (now Ketrzyn, Poland). ww2dbase [Adolf Hitler | Rastenburg, Ostpreußen | AC]

• Soviet submarine M-78 (Senior Lieutenant Dimitriy L. Shevchenko) was attacked off Uzava, Latvia by German aircraft at 0336 hours. At 0654 hours, 9 miles west of Vindava, Latvia, German submarine U-144 intercepted M-78 and sank her with two torpedo hits, killing all 15 aboard, including the commander of the 4th Submarine Division S. I. Matveev. The M-78 had left Liepaja, Latvia the day before together with M-77. This was the first sinking scored by a German submarine in the Baltic Sea in the war. ww2dbase [U-144 | Vindava | CPC, HM]
• Soviet submarines Ronis, Spidola, and S-1 were scuttled by their own crews at Libau, Latvia to prevent German capture. ww2dbase [Libau | CPC]

• At 1730 hours, the 3,805-ton Turkish steam merchant Refah departed Mersin, Turkey, carrying a Turkish military mission bound for Britain, with the first stop at Port Said, Egypt. The mission consisted of 171 Turks (19 navy officers, 72 navy petty officers, 58 navy seamen, 20 air force cadets, and 2 civilians) accompanied by 1 British liaiason officer. The ship's captain was Izzet Dalgak?ran, who had 27 men in his crew. The ship was painted with Turkish colors and was not escorted by warships. At 2230 hours, when she was about 19 kilometers east of Cyprus, she was hit by a torpedo from an unidentified source. The electrical system was immediately disabled, preventing the ship from sending distress signals. Only one of the two lifeboats aboard the ship operated properly. ww2dbase [HM]

• Light cruiser Voroshilov bombarded Constanza, Romania. ww2dbase [Voroshilov | Constanza | CPC]

• The Southern Railway Central Station in London, England, United Kingdom, damaged by German bombing over the night of 21 to 22 Jun 1941, was cleared of debris and returned to full operational status. ww2dbase [Battle of Britain | London, England | CPC]
• The 717-ton coastal freighter Hull Trader was on passage from London to Hull when she struck a German laid mine and sank one mile from 57 C Buoy, at Cromer on the east coast of England, United Kingdom; eleven of the fourteen crew were killed. ww2dbase [Cromer, England | HM]

23 Jun 1941 Interactive Map

• Tatsuta Maru arrived at Kwajalein, Marshall islands. ww2dbase [Tatsuta Maru | CPC]
• Anxious to learn the secrets of the Luftwaffe's new Focke-Wulf 190 fighter, the British was planning a Commando-type raid to steal one from a French airfield. They were saved the trouble when disorientated German pilot Lieutenant Arnim Faber of 111/JG2 landed his Fw 190A-3 fighter at RAF Pembrey in South Wales, United Kingdom, mistaking it for an airfield in France. The captured aircraft was taken to the Air Fighting Development Unit at Duxford, England, United Kingdom where it was discovered, during trials, that the Fw 190A was superior in all respects except turning circle to the Spitfire VB then equipping most of RAF Fighter Command. ww2dbase [Fw 190 Würger | AC]
• German submarine U-159 sent a boarding to US tanker E. J. Sadler 175 miles south of Puerto Rico just after 0000 hours to scuttle the tanker which she had disabled at 2035 hours on the previous day. German submarine U-158 sank US Army transport Major General Henry Gibbins 400 miles west of Key West, Florida, United States; the entire crew of 47 and all 21 gunners survived, to be rescued on the following day. 40 miles south of South Pass, Louisiana, United States, U-67 sank US tanker Rawleigh Warner, killing all 33 aboard. In the Caribbean Sea, U-68 sank Panamanian tanker Arriaga 100 miles west of Aruba; 1 was killed, 24 survived. 200 miles east of Nicaragua, U-172 sank Colombian sailing boat Resolute with gunfire and hand grenades; 6 were killed, 4 survived. ww2dbase [Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico Campaigns | CPC]
• Commander Ryokichi Sugama was named the commanding officer of destroyer Yukikaze. ww2dbase [Yukikaze | CPC]
• German submarine U-84 sank Norwegian tanker Torvanger 540 miles west of the Azores islands; 4 were killed, 33 survived. 100 miles east of Grenada in the Antilles islands, U-128 sank a Norwegian tanker; all 38 aboard survived. ww2dbase [Second Happy Time | CPC]
• British submarine HMS Thrasher sank Italian merchant vessel Sant Antonio in the Gulf of Sirte off Libya; Italian torpedo boat Perseo attempted a counterattack which failed to damage Thrasher. ww2dbase [CPC]

• Alpino Bagnolini sighted an aircraft in the Atlantic Ocean at 1209 hours; she dove to avoid detection. ww2dbase [Alpino Bagnolini | CPC]

• Tenryu arrived at Truk, Caroline Islands. ww2dbase [Tenryu | Truk | CPC]

• Axis forces crossed the Libyan-Egyptian border and marched toward the Allied defensive positions at Mersa Matruh, Egypt 100 miles to the east, engaging units of the British 7th Armoured Division en route at Sollum. ww2dbase [Battle of Mersa Matruh | Sollum | CPC]

• At Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, Joseph Rochefort received a message from Admiral Ernest King to congratulate him on a job well done. There were no mention of any award of medals or other forms of recognition. ww2dbase [Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Joseph Rochefort | Honolulu, Oahu | CPC]

• Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru departed Yokosuka, Japan. ww2dbase [Hikawa Maru | Yokosuka, Kanagawa | CPC]
• Zuikaku arrived at Ominato Guard District in Mutsu, Aomori Prefecture, Japan and joined with Junyo, Ryujo, and Zuiho to form the No. 2 Striking Force of 1st Air Fleet. ww2dbase [Zuikaku | Mutsu, Aomori | TH]
• Nachi arrived at Ominato Guard District, Mutsu, Aomori Prefecture, Japan. ww2dbase [Nachi | Mutsu, Aomori | CPC]

• USAAF B-24D bombers of Halverson Provisional Detachment, temporarily based in Egypt while being prepared to transfer to China, attacked Axis positions at Benghazi, Libya. ww2dbase [Benghazi | CPC]

• Agents of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation, acting on information provided by defected saboteur George Dasch, located and arrested two German saboeurs in New York, New York, United States. ww2dbase [New York | CPC]

23 Jun 1942 Interactive Map

• After refueling, submarine USS Thresher departed Exmouth Gulf, Australia to continue with her ninth war patrol. ww2dbase [Thresher | Exmouth Gulf | DS]

• US Marine Corps squadron VMSB-132, equipped with SBD dive bombers, was assigned to Henderson Field on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. ww2dbase [Henderson Field | Lunga Point, Guadalcanal | CPC]

• Destroyer Yukikaze departed Truk, Caroline Islands to escort cruiser Nagara to Nauru. ww2dbase [Yukikaze | Truk | CPC]

• USS Harder attacked a Japanese transport south of Japan, hitting her with 1 of 4 torpedoes. ww2dbase [Harder | CPC]

• All Jewish ghettos in the Galicia region of southeastern Poland and Ukraine were liquidated; 430,329 Jews were deported from this region. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | CPC]

23 Jun 1943 Interactive Map

• German submarine U-530 and Japanese submarine I-52 made rendezvous in the mid-Atlantic 850 miles west of Cape Verde islands. U-530 transferred a Naxos radar detector, a radar operator, and a navigator to I-52. ww2dbase [U-530 | CPC]
• USS Franklin departed Pearl Harbor. ww2dbase [Franklin | CPC]
• Captain Michael Allmand of the Gurkha Rifles won the Victoria Cross after charging ahead of his troops three times to clear the way of enemy positions in northern Burma; on the third time, he was seriously wounded. ww2dbase [AC]
• Over France, with two engines out and the fuselage on fire, Pilot Officer Andrew Mynarski, a Canadian gunner in a No. 419 Squadron Lancaster, was ordered to bale out. However, he saw that the rear gunner was trapped and tried to free him even though his own clothing and parachute were on fire. Hopelessly stuck, the rear gunner signaled to Mynarski that he should save himself. The Canadian gallantly stood to attention and saluted his comrade before jumping out. He was found by the French but died later of his terrible injuries. Amazingly, the gunner was thrown clear when the Lancaster crashed and survived, as did the other crew members who had jumped. When they returned and told their story after the war, Mynarski was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross. ww2dbase [AC]
• In Burma, Tulbahadur Pun of the Gurkha Rifles won the Victoria Cross for single-handedly crossing 30 yards of open swampy ground under concentrated enemy fire to destroy a position that had virtually wiped out his section. ww2dbase [AC]
• Corporal Sefanaia Sukanaivalu became the only Fijian to win the Victoria Cross during the fighting on Bougainville in the Solomon Islands. After rescuing two wounded comrades he was hit in the groin whilst attempting to rescue a third. Unable to move and knowing that his comrades would not leave him whilst he remained alive, Sukanaivalu selflessly raised himself in full view of the enemy, and died in a hail of bullets. The award was made posthumously. ww2dbase [AC]
• Finnish fighter pilot Hans Wind flying a Bf 109 fighter downed four aircraft in a single sorte. Over a ten day period in Jun 1944 he would account for 25 opponents from his final tally of 75 kills throughout the war. ww2dbase [AC]
• Generaloberst Eduard Dietl of the German 20.Gebirgsarmee was killed in a plane crash. ww2dbase [Eduard Dietl | TH]
• Martti Aho was promoted to the rank of colonel. ww2dbase [Martti Aho | CPC]
• Churchill, with misgivings, gave in to pressure from the Americans and sanctioned operation Anvil (the proposed US-French invasion of the south of France). Churchill called this a "Bleak and sterile exercise". ww2dbase [Invasion of Southern France | AC]
• Chindit and Japanese troops engaged in fierce fighting at Mogaung, Burma. ww2dbase [Operation Thursday | CPC]
• Light carrier Ryuho departed Okinawa, Japan. ww2dbase [Ryuho | CPC]
• Destroyer Yukikaze arrived at Guimarras, Philippine Islands. ww2dbase [Yukikaze | CPC]
• USS Flying Fish set sail for Manus, Australian New Guinea. ww2dbase [Flying Fish | CPC]
• In the Unite States, the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives of the US Congress drafted a resolution that supported the War Refugee Board and promised retribution against those responsible for atrocities in occupied Europe (Hungary in particular). ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | CPC]
• Clifton Cates's promotion to major general was authorized by his superiors. ww2dbase [Clifton Cates | CPC]

• Two representatives (one Danish and one Swiss) of the International Red Cross and one representative of the Danish Red Cross visited Theresienstadt Concentration Camp in occupied Czechoslovakia for six hours; the prisoners gave them positive reports about the living conditions as they were instructed to do by the camp administration. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Theresienstadt Concentration Camp | Terezín, Cechy | CPC]

• Alpo Marttinen was promoted to the rank of colonel. ww2dbase [Alpo Marttinen | CPC]

• In Germany, Joseph Goebbels, German propaganda chief, went on radio in Germany to say that the continuous V-1 bombs landing in London was like a nagging toothache to the British. "It will continue day and night and drive them mad." ww2dbase [V-Weapons Campaign | HM]

• Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Parts of ARGUS-15, ARGUS-17, and ARGUS-23 departed. ww2dbase [Barbers Point Naval Air Station | Ewa, Oahu | DS]

• Landing ship No. 110 was launched. ww2dbase [No. 101/103-class | CPC]
• Landing ship No. 157 was launched. ww2dbase [No. 101/103-class | CPC]
• Zuikaku departed Nakagusuku Bay, Okinawa, Japan. ww2dbase [Zuikaku | Nakagusuku Bay, Okinawa | CPC]

• USS Yorktown (Essex-class) conducts air strikes against Pagan Island in the Mariana Islands. ww2dbase [Mariana Islands Campaign | Yorktown (Essex-class) | Pagan | DS]
• Northeast of Saipan, Mariana Islands, destroyer USS Saufley rendezvoused with battleship USS Maryland and took aboard Commander Battleship Division 4, Rear Admiral Theodore Ruddock, and his staff for transfer to battleship USS Colorado. ww2dbase [Maryland | Saufley | Saipan | DS]

• In the South China Sea, USS Flier continued to attack the same Japanese convoy which she had been pursuing since the previous day, sinking a transport with 3 of 4 torpedoes fired. ww2dbase [Flier | South China Sea | CPC]
• USS Wasp set sail for Eniwetok, Marshall Islands. ww2dbase [Wasp (Essex-class) | CPC]
• Submarines USS Guardfish, USS Thresher, USS Piranha, and USS Apogon effected a rendezvous 400 miles north of Wake Island and Apogon joined the "Mickey Finns" wolfpack. ww2dbase [Piranha | Apogon | Thresher | Guardfish | DS]

• Chelmno Concentration Camp in occupied Poland was re-opened for the liquidation of the Łódź Ghetto nearby. At Łódź, deportations began on the same day; through 14 Jul 1944, 7,196 would be sent to Chelmno where they would be killed in gas vans. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Chelmno Concentration Camp | Chelmno nad Nerem, Konin | CPC]

• Over southern England, United Kingdom, No. 3 Squadron RAF added a further 15 "kills" to their tally and 91 Squadron at ALG (Advance Landing Ground) Deanland accounted for a further 11. Flight Officer Ken Collier RAAF flying a Spitfire XIV aircraft became the first pilot to bring down a V-1 bomb by tipping it over using his wingtip. Pilots of the fighter Squadrons were now demanding that areas of defence be made as regards anti-aircraft batteries as some pilots had experienced friendly fire. ww2dbase [V-Weapons Campaign | England | HM]

23 Jun 1944 Interactive Map

• USS Tunny made rendezvous with USS Skate in the Sea of Japan. ww2dbase [Tunny | CPC]
• The last organized Japanese defense was broken by Australian troops at Tarakan Island, Borneo. ww2dbase [Borneo Campaign | CPC]
• Joseph Stilwell accepted Douglas MacArthur's offer to make him the commanding officer of the 10th Army, which consisted of American, Canadian, Australian, and Indian troops. ww2dbase [Joseph Stilwell | CPC]
• USS Spot set sail for the East China Sea. ww2dbase [Spot | CPC]
• Destroyers USS Nicholas, USS O’Bannon, and USS Taylor were detached from their convoy and routed independently to Leyte Gulf, Philippines. ww2dbase [Nicholas | DS]

• Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Air Group 33 departed. ww2dbase [Barbers Point Naval Air Station | Ewa, Oahu | DS]

• USS Parche sank three small Japanese trawlers with her deck gun in the Tsugara Strait between Aomori Prefecture and Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan. ww2dbase [Parche | CPC]
• Casablanca-class escort carrier USS Steamer Bay departed the Okinawa area bound for Ulithi. ww2dbase [Steamer Bay | Okinawa | DS]

• Casablanca-class escort carrier USS Sargent Bay arrived in San Pedro Bay, Leyte Gulf, Philippines.n ww2dbase [Sargent Bay | San Pedro Bay, Leyte Gulf | CPC]

• USS Washington arrived at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard for an overhaul. ww2dbase [Puget Sound Navy Yard | Washington | Bremerton, Washington | DS]
• USS Tamalpais departed San Pedro, California unescorted bound for Eniwetok, Marshall Islands with a load of fresh water. ww2dbase [Tamalpais | San Pedro, California | DS]

23 Jun 1945 Interactive Map

• Allied repatriation ship Hikawa Maru departed Kure, Japan. ww2dbase [Hikawa Maru | Kure, Hiroshima | CPC]

23 Jun 1948 Interactive Map

• Submarine USS Tinosa was placed out of commission at San Francisco and laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet at Mare Island. ww2dbase [Mare Island Navy Yard | Tinosa | Vallejo, California | DS]

23 Jun 1949 Interactive Map

• USS Kimberly departed Yokosuka, Japan for the Yellow Sea. ww2dbase [Kimberly | Yokosuka, Kanagawa | CPC]

• Winston Churchill suffered a stroke in the evening at 10 Downing Street, London, England, United Kingdom. ww2dbase [Winston Churchill | London, England | CPC]

23 Jun 1953 Interactive Map

• USS Sterlet completed a tour of duty in the west Pacific and returned to the west coast of the United States. ww2dbase [Sterlet | CPC]

• Captain Edward Higgins, Jr. was named the commanding officer of USS Saint Paul. ww2dbase [Saint Paul | CPC]

• Werner Best passed away. ww2dbase [Werner Best | CPC]