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• Major General John Hester announced the date for the New Georgia invasion to be 30 Jun 1943. On the same day, a group of Japanese dive bombers and fighters unsuccessfully attacked American positions in the Russell Islands, Solomon Islands; a large number of the aircraft were destroyed. ww2dbase [Solomon Islands Campaign | CPC]
• B-17 bomber "Old 666", piloted by Captain Jay Zeamer, conducted a camera mapping mission over Bougainville in the Solomon Islands. It was attacked and heavily damaged by fighters of the squadron led by Warrant Officer Yoshio Oki. Zeamer, wounded, would be able to fly the bomber back home; this later won him a Medal of Honor. ww2dbase [Bougainville | CPC]

• Werner Haase was promoted to the rank of SS-Obersturmbannführer. ww2dbase [Werner Haase | CPC]

• Ryuho, Yugure, Yukikaze, and Ariake departed Yokosuka, Japan at 1100 hours. ww2dbase [Ryuho | Yukikaze | Yugure | Yokosuka, Kanagawa | CPC]

• Marcel Albert, flying a Yak-1 fighter, shot down a Fw 189 aircraft over Brusna, Sumy Oblast, Ukraine. ww2dbase [Marcel Albert | Brusna, Sumy | CPC]

• Noor Inayat Khan boarded a Lysander aircraft in Britain for France. She was accompanied by her superior Vera Atkins. ww2dbase [Lysander | Noor Inayat Khan | Vera Atkins | CPC]

• The keel was laid for Liberty ship Jack London at the Marinship yard. This was the last Liberty ship made at Marinship as production had entirely shifted to building tankers, the ship type Marinship was created to build. ww2dbase [Marinship Shipbuilding | Liberty-class | Sausalito, California | DS]

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