6 Jul 1941
  • Lieutenant Roden Cutler won the Victoria Cross for clearing enemy positions in Syria. Wounded, he lay in the open for 26 hours before comrades could get to him, by which time his leg required amputation. ww2dbase [AC]
  • After sundown, German bombers conducted a light attack on Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom. ww2dbase [Battle of Britain | CPC]
  • Douglas Bader shot down a German Bf 109 aircraft. ww2dbase [Douglas Bader | CPC]
Atlantic Ocean
  • Comandante Cappellini sighted British Catalina aircraft of No. 202 Squadron RAF (Flying Officer R. Y. Powell) in the Atlantic Ocean at 1730 hours, and it soon began strafing and dropping depth charges on the Italian submarine. Italians returned fire and kept the aircarft at a distance. Powell attempted to communicate the position with others in failure, and ultimately gave up shadowing the submarine at 2245 hours. Powell's seaplane ran out of fuel and came down on the water west of Spain, and was later towed away by a British sloop. ww2dbase [Comandante Cappellini | CPC]
  • Morosini sighted a submarine in the Atlantic Ocean at 1240 hours; believing her to be German, Morosini turned away. ww2dbase [Morosini | CPC]
French Syria and Lebanon Russia
  • The Military Collegium of the Soviet NKVD sentenced four teenagers to death for being the son and nephews of Nestor Lakoba, political enemy of Lavrentiy Beria (already killed in Dec 1936). ww2dbase [CPC]

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Contributors: Alan Chanter, C. Peter Chen, Thomas Houlihan, Hugh Martyr, David Stubblebine
Special Thanks: Rory Curtis




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