27 Jun 1941
- German troops captured Bobruisk in Byelorussia and Przemysl in Poland. ww2dbase [Operation Barbarossa | TH]
- Hungary declared war on the Soviet Union. ww2dbase [TH]
- British bombers attacked Bremen, Germany. ww2dbase [Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities | CPC]
- In Kaunas, Lithuania, a group of Lithuanian nationalists gathered more than 50 Jewish men in a horse stable and beat them violently with iron bars in public view. None of the victims survived the Lietukis Garage Massacre. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | CPC]
- Leonardo da Vinci sighted a destroyer in the Atlantic Ocean at the distance of 10,000 meters and submerged for cover. At 1704 hours, she surfaced, noting a destroyer at 6,000 meters, dove again. ww2dbase [Leonardo da Vinci | CPC]
- Maggiore Baracca was attacked with depth charges from an Allied destroyer for a number of hours in the Atlantic Ocean, but would escape undamaged. ww2dbase [Maggiore Baracca | CPC]
- Alessandro Malaspina departed Bordeaux, France at 0900 hours and arrived at Le Verdon-sur-Mer, France at 1300 hours. Between 1610 and 1745 hours, she was out at sea performing trials. At 1750 hours, she departed Le Verdon-sur-Mer for her fifth war patrol. ww2dbase [Alessandro Malaspina | Bordeaux, Aquitaine | CPC]
- Comandante Cappellini departed Bordeaux, France at 0800 hours and arrived at Le Verdon-sur-Mer, Aquitaine, France at 1248 hours. ww2dbase [Comandante Cappellini | Bordeaux, Aquitaine | CPC]
- Joseph Stalin gave permission to military tribunals to give out death sentences to members of the Red Army without his personal approval. ww2dbase [Joseph Stalin | Moscow | CPC]
- The US Federal Bureau of Investigation raided the offices of the Socialist Workers Party in Minneapolis and St. Paul in Minnesota, United States, seizing large quantities of Communist literature. ww2dbase [Minnesota | AC]
- The Central Committee of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia appointed Tito as Commander-in-Chief of the Yugoslavian Peoples Army. ww2dbase [Josip Tito | AC]
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