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• The RAF initiated shuttle bombing, where planes departed home fields to bomb Germany, re-armed in Africa, then bomb Italian targets en route back to Britain. The first of these raids targeted Friedrichshafen, Germany. ww2dbase [Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities | CPC]
• 5,550 Dutch Jews in Amsterdam were rounded up for deportation to the east. ww2dbase [CPC]
• Submarine Rock was launched, sponsored by Mrs. B. O. Wells. ww2dbase [Rock | CPC]
• Lord Gort received the field marshal's baton from King George VI at Malta. ww2dbase [John Vereker | CPC]

• Captain Arthur Post of US 8th Photo Reconnaissance Squadron was shot down near Wide Bay, New Britain. He survived the ordeal and was taken in by natives, who later brought him to coast watchers. ww2dbase [New Britain | CPC]

• Repair ship Akashi completed the repair work for destroyer Uzuki at Truk, Caroline Islands. ww2dbase [Akashi | Truk | CPC]

• A fist fight between two men, one white and one African-American, at Belle Isle Park in Detroit, Michigan, United States escalated the already-strained racial tension into a riot. ww2dbase [Detroit, Michigan | CPC]

20 Jun 1943 Interactive Map