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• 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]
• Fleet tender Hai sustained some damage by Soviet aircraft. 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]

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