12 Jun 1943
- RAF aircraft bombed Bochum, Germany. ww2dbase [Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities | TH]
- Luftwaffe aircraft conducted a night raid on Plymouth, England, United Kingdom. ww2dbase [Battle of Britain | TH]
- The German submarine U-441 which sailed from Brest, France on 8 Jun 1943, obeying Admiral Doenitz's order that U-boat crews should fight Allied aircraft on the surface using improved anti-aircraft guns, encountered not a slow patrol aircraft but three Beaufighter Mk VIC of No. 248 squadron and was severely straffed and forced to put back to Brest for repairs. ww2dbase [AC]
- Aircraft of Japanese 11th Air Fleet from Rabaul were launched to attack American positions in the Russell Islands, Solomon Islands, but this force was turned back by Allied fighters. ww2dbase [Solomon Islands Campaign | CPC]
- Light carrier Ryuho was transferred from the 3rd Force of the Mobile Force Training Force to Carrier Division 2 of the 3rd Fleet. ww2dbase [Ryuho | CPC]
- Major Werner Streib, one of the Luftwaffe's leading night-fighter pilots, flying a prototype He 219 V9 A-0/R2 aircraft from Venlo, Netherlands, destroyed five RAF bombers over Germany between 0105 and 0155 hours in one sortie. The bombers were heading toward Düsseldorf, Germany. ww2dbase [AC]
- Barbers Point Naval Air Station: More of Photographic Squadron 3 (VD-3) on board. Aircraft storehouse, paint and oil storehouse, and Public Works and Maintenance building, turned over to station. ww2dbase [Barbers Point Naval Air Station | Ewa, Oahu | DS]
- Torpedo-damaged Hiyo entered drydocks at Yokosuka Naval Arsenal, Japan for repairs at 1053 hours. Her bottom scraped the bottom of the drydock while moving in. ww2dbase [Yokosuka Naval Arsenal | Hiyo-class | Yokosuka, Kanagawa | CPC]
- Germans liquidated the Jewish Ghetto in Berezhany in western Ukraine. 1,180 Jews were led to the city's old Jewish graveyard and killed. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Berezhany, Ternopil | CPC]

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