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• Franklin Roosevelt received a bachelors degree in history from Harvard University in Massachusetts, United States. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• The German Reichstag agreed to the Treaty of Versailles. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• USS Chester was commissioned into service with Captain A. P. Fairfield in command. ww2dbase [Main Article | DS]

• 49 Siamese military officers seized power while King Rama VII was away from the capital. ww2dbase [CPC]

• The Catholic Christian trade unions in Germany were dissolved by Hitler's Government. Many Trade Union leaders were arrested and taken to camps and prisons. ww2dbase [AC]

• German Field Marshal Werner von Blomberg drew up Case Green as a hypothetical campaign against Czechoslovakia. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• U-27 was launched at Bremen, Germany. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Weather data for 24 Jun 1937

• Gridley was commissioned into service. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

24 Jun 1937 Interactive Map

• Weather data for 24 Jun 1938

• Japanese reached Madang, Jiangxi Province, China. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Weather data for 24 Jun 1939

• Siam was renamed to Thailand. ww2dbase [CPC]

• Weather data for 24 Jun 1940

• German submarine U-47 sank Panamanian ship Cathrine with the deck gun about 300 miles west of Land's End in southwestern England. As the entire crew of 19 escaped to lifeboats, they were given food and red wine by the crew of U-47 before being set adrift for their eventual rescue. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• British commandos launched an aborted raid on Le Touquet, France. ww2dbase [TH]
• As French warships scattered throughout Dakar, Casablanca, Algiers, and Mers-el-Kébir in French colonies in Africa, Alexandria in Egypt, and Plymouth and Portsmouth and Britain, French Admiral Darlan promised British Prime Minister Churchill that they would not fall into German hands. ww2dbase [CPC]
• British sloop HMS Falmouth sank Italian submarine Luigi Galvani in the Gulf of Oman. ww2dbase [CPC]
• Japan requested Britain to close the Burma Road, a land supply route into China. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Robert von Greim was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross medal. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• The Franco-Italian armistice was signed at Villa Olgiata near Rome, Italy by French General Huntziger and Italian General Badoglio. Fighting would continue until the following day when the agreement would take effect. ww2dbase [Main Article | TH]

• Malta received its first strike aircraft with the arrival and creation of No. 830 Squadron with Fairey Swordfish Mk.1 aircraft; they were left behind by HMS Argus when she departed the Mediterranean Sea. ww2dbase [Main Article | AC]

• Charles Edison resigned as the Secretary of the Navy of the United States; Lewis Compton, Assistant Secretary of the Navy since 9 Feb 1940, took over as the acting secretary. ww2dbase [CPC]
• Rear Admiral Charles A. Blakely relieved Rear Admiral Joseph R. Defrees as the Commandant of the Eleventh Naval District and the Commandant of the Naval Operating Base in San Diego, California, United States. ww2dbase [CPC]

• Weather data for 24 Jun 1941

• German Armeegruppe Nord moved into Lithuania and Byelorussia, seizing Vilnius and Kaunas. ww2dbase [Main Article | TH]
• Japan asserted pressure on France for Indochina. ww2dbase [CPC]
• Large demonstrations began in Madrid, Spain in support of the German invasion of the Soviet Union; demonstrations soon spread to other parts of Spain. ww2dbase [CPC]
• Hungary broke relations with the Soviet Union. ww2dbase [TH]
• British House of Commons voted for the second £1,000,000,000 war credit of the year as war expenditure now exceeded £10,250,000 per day. ww2dbase [CPC]
• British bombers attacked Düsseldorf, Germany. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• In Russia a Council of Evacuation was set up with emergency powers to oversee the evacuation of machinery, skilled workers and food stuffs on a large scale, away from the German advance. ww2dbase [AC]
• The German E-Boat S35 discovered the Soviet submarine S3 (N. A. Kostromityev) off Steinort, Germany and fired several torpedoes which all missed. S3 was then sunk by depth charges and hand grenades. ww2dbase [AC]
• Adolf Hitler arrived at the Wolfsschanze headquarters in East Prussia, Germany. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Japanese bombers attacked Chongqing, China, damaging the British Consulate among other buildings. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Scirè launched manned torpedoes into Grand Harbour, Malta; they failed to damage any enemy vessels. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Soviet Air Force Directorate chief Pavel Rychagov, as well as his wife Maria Nesterenko, a famed aviatrix, were arrested during the purge of the Soviet Air Force. ww2dbase [CPC]
• Soviet Deputy Defense Commissar General Kirill Meretskov was arrested by agents of the 3rd NKO Directorate. He would later be cleared of suspicion in Sep 1941 and was given front line command once again. ww2dbase [CPC]

• Ivan Bagramyan attempted to launch a counterattack against German advances in Ukraine, but it would fail to achieve much due to the unprepared state of his troops. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

24 Jun 1941 Interactive Map

• Weather data for 24 Jun 1942

• Tatsuta Maru departed Kwajalein, Marshall Islands. ww2dbase [Main Article | Tabular Record of Movement | CPC]
• USS Perch was struck from the Naval Vessel Register of the US Navy. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• A PBY Catalina piloted by Lieutenant (jg) Julius Raven discovered and rescued 15 survivors of USS S-27 off Amchitka Island, Aleutian Islands. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• Tsingtau was transferred from the 7th Fast Attack Craft Flotilla to the 8th Fast Attack Craft Flotilla. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• Axis air forces commenced an offensive against Yugoslavian partisans. ww2dbase [TH]
• Luftwaffe aircraft conducted a raid on Birmingham, England. ww2dbase [Main Article | TH]
• German submarine U-156 sank British ship Willimantic with gunfire 700 miles southeast of Bermuda at 0904 hours; 6 were killed, 32 survived. At 0937 hours, 30 miles off Cape Fear, North Carolina, United States, U-404 sank Yugoslavian ship Ljubica Matkovic; all 30 aboard survived. At the mouth of the Delaware Bay on the US coast, US rescue tug vessel John R. Williams struck a mine and sank at 2005 hours; 14 were killed, 4 survived; the mine was laid by U-373 on 11 Jun. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• Joseph Stilwell, with Song Meiling in his support, convinced Chiang Kaishek to agree to sending Chinese troops to India for training. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Australian 39th Battalion and the British colonial Papua Infantry Battalion were deployed to defend the Kokoda Track, a rough jungle path that linked northeastern coast of the island of New Guinea with Port Moresby. On the same day, other Australian units departed from Port Moresby aboard Dutch ship Karsik and Bontekoe to construct new airfields on the coast of Milne Bay to the east. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• USS S-44 arrived at Lunga Roads off the northern coast of Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Five German Ju 88 bombers attacked Allied shipping at anchor in the Kola Inlet near Murmansk, Russia starting at 0908 hours, sinking British minesweeper HMS Gossamer at 0921 hours (23 were killed, 12 were wounded). ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• Joseph Stalin signed the order that widened the range of crimes which would also result in the arrest of family members of the convicted. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Queen Wilhelmina arrived in the United States. ww2dbase [Main Article]

24 Jun 1942 Interactive Map

• Weather data for 24 Jun 1943

• At dawn, USS Snook attacked a six-ship Japanese convoy in the Ryukyu Islands, Japan, damaging one tanker with 2 of 4 torpedoes fired. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• USS Sunfish ended her third war patrol. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• American submarine USS Tinosa fired 12 torpedoes at an enemy target. 11 of them failed to explode. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• RAF bombers attacked Elberfeld in the Ruhr region of Germany. ww2dbase [Main Article | TH]
• Heinrich Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein flew the Bf 110 nightfighter for the first time, discovered technical issues, and returned to flying his usual Ju 88 aircraft, in which he shot down four British Lancaster bombers. His victories now stood at 35. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• Francis Tuker was mentioned in dispatches. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• USS Harder damaged a Japanese transport off Japan, hitting her with 1 of 7 torpedoes. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• The Tamazato Prisoners of War Camp in eastern Taiwan was closed after less than three months in operation; on the same day, Taihoku Prisoners of War Camp No. 5 near Taihoku (now Taipei), Taiwan was opened. ww2dbase [CPC]

• Submarine Caiman was laid down by the Electric Boat Company at Groton, Connecticut, United States. ww2dbase [Main Article | Facility | CPC]

24 Jun 1943 Interactive Map

• Weather data for 24 Jun 1944

• USS Tang attacked a Japanese convoy southwest of Kagoshima, Japan and reported sinking two ships. Post war Japanese records showed that four ships of that convoy, Tamahoko Maru, Tainan Maru, Nasusan Maru, and Kennichi Maru, were attacked and sunk on that date. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• USS Parche sank a Japanese patrol vessel with her deck gun. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• Hitler ordered all but one division of LIII Korps, encircled near Vitebsk, Byelorussia, to break out. ww2dbase [Main Article | TH]
• Chinese troops, supported by heavy artillery, attacked Mogaung, Burma in support of the British Chindit operation. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• British Lieutenant General Geoffrey Scoones, due to poor intelligence, failed to pursue retreating Japanese troops from northeastern India, thinking that the Japanese might be planning a counterattack from Tamu and Bishenpur. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• Alexander Novikov was awarded the Legion of Merit by the United States. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• Saburo Sakai mis-identified a group of 15 F6F Hellcat fighters as friendly, but he was able to escape from their attacks unscathed. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Flight Lieutenant David Hornell, on a routine patrol in a Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) Catalina aircraft, sighted a surfaced German U-Boat in the North Atlantic, but a hail of anti-aircraft fire came up to meet the Catalina as it made its bombing run. Although two large holes appeared in the starboard wing and oil was seen to be pouring from the burning starboard engine, Hornell managed to hold the blazing aircraft on course, and from low-level was able to straddle the enemy submarine with depth charges; which was then seen to thrust its bows abruptly into the air while the crew abandoned ship. The Catalina aircraft's engine tore itself away from the burning wing and Hornell needed all his skill to put the machine down on the heavy swell. Blazing furiously it began to sink immediately. The survivors had to wait 21 hours before they were picked up, by which time two men had already died of exposure and Hornell himself succumbed soon after being rescued. For his outstanding gallantry David Hornell would be awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross. ww2dbase [AC]

• US Vice President Henry Wallace departed Chongqing, China. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• British No. 617 Squadron attacked the 20-foot thick concrete dome containing V-2 rockets at Wizernes, France with "Tallboy" bombs. ww2dbase [Main Article | Event | AC]

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

• Troops of British XIII Corps linked up with Indian troops of British X Corps in Italy. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• The Mobile Fleet, including Yamato, arrived at Hashirajima island in Hiroshima Bay, Japan. ww2dbase [Main Article | Tabular Record of Movement | CPC]
• USS Yorktown (Essex-class) launched raids on Iwo Jima, Bonin Islands. ww2dbase [Main Article | Event | DS]
• Light carrier Ryuho arrived at Hashirajima, Japan. ww2dbase [Main Article | Tabular Record of Movement | CPC]
• Landing ship No. 131 was completed. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Prisoners Edward Galinski and Mala Zimetbaum escaped from Auschwitz Concentration Camp in occupied Poland but they would be re-captured in Jul 1944. ww2dbase [Main Article | Facility | CPC]

• During the morning, a V-1 flying bomb, shot down by a fighter, crashed on the Newlands Military Camp at Charing, near Ashford, Kent, England, United Kingdom. Forty-seven men were killed and twenty-eight seriously injured. ww2dbase [Main Article | AC]
• The British government issued a statement saying 756 people had died and 2,697 badly injured since the V-1 flying bomb assault started. ww2dbase [Main Article | HM]
• 56 Squadron at RAF Newchurch in Kent, England, United Kingdom received its first Tempest aircraft and underwent intensive training on flying them. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• Belgian pilot Flight Officer Joseph Brosteaux of No. 350 Squadron RAF had to make a forced landing after being hit by anti-aircraft fire over Sussex, the crash landing wrecked his Spitfire Vb aircraft but he was unhurt. ww2dbase [CPC]

24 Jun 1944 Interactive Map

• Weather data for 24 Jun 1945

• USS Wake Island arrived at Apra Harbor, Guam, Mariana Islands. Personnel of her air group were transferred to Naval Air Base Agana. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• General Zhukov took the salute in the Victory Parade in Moscow, Russia. ww2dbase [Main Article | TH]
• Japanese representatives in Moscow, Russia requested the Soviet Union to extend the neutrality pact originally signed in 1941 and due to expire in Apr 1946. ww2dbase [CPC]

• A German Ar 234 aircraft surrendered to the British at Sola Airfield in Stavanger, Norway. This aircraft was later flown from Sola for Cherbourg, France, where it would be embarked onto a ship for transport to the United States. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Konstantin Rokossovsky commanded a victory parade at the Red Square in Moscow, Russia. ww2dbase [Main Article | Facility | CPC]

• Australian forces captured Sarawak. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

24 Jun 1945 Interactive Map

• Nashville was decommissioned from service. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Joseph Rochefort, not getting the sea command that he wanted, requested retirement. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• In Germany, the Berlin Blockade began. ww2dbase [CPC]

• Kliment Voroshilov was awarded the Order of the Red Banner for the sixth time. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• USS Saint Paul arrived at Long Beach, California, United States. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]