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• Alexander Hore-Ruthven was born. ww2dbase [Alexander Hore-Ruthven | CPC]

• George Murray was born in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. ww2dbase [George Murray | Boston, Massachusetts | CPC]

• Pavel Rotmistrov was born in Skovorovo, Tver Governorate, Russia. ww2dbase [Pavel Rotmistrov | Skovorovo, Tver | CPC]

• Battleship USS Oregon entered Puget Sound Naval Shipyard for an extended overhaul that lasted over a year. ww2dbase [Puget Sound Navy Yard | Oregon | Bremerton, Washington | DS]

6 Jul 1901 Interactive Map

• Schleswig-Holstein was commissioned into service. ww2dbase [Schleswig-Holstein | CPC]

• Henry Arnold recieved Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) pilot certificate No. 29. ww2dbase [Henry Arnold | CPC]

• William Dimoline was promoted to the rank of second lieutenant and was assigned to 5th Battalion of King's Regiment (Liverpool). ww2dbase [William Dimoline | CPC]

• T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) with his Arab irregulars under Auda ibu Tayi captured the town of Aqaba, Ottoman Syria. ww2dbase [AC]

• US President Wilson approached the Japanese Government with a plan to rescue the Czech Legion (confining military operations to eastern Siberia only with no more than 12,000 Japanese troops to be employed). ww2dbase [AC]
• Friedrich Christiansen strafed British submarine HMS C25 in the Thames estuary in southern England, United Kingdom, killing its captain and five crewmen. ww2dbase [Friedrich Christiansen | CPC]

• Masafumi Arima returned to Japan. ww2dbase [Masafumi Arima | CPC]

• Franklin Roosevelt was nominated as a candidate for US Vice President. ww2dbase [Franklin Roosevelt | CPC]

• A truce was signed between the British Government and the IRA to allow negotiations to take place. The Nationalists wanted an independent Republic whilst the Lloyd George offered to create an Irish State with Dominion status under the king. As the weeks went by Lloyd George gradually won over the Irish delegates and finally obtained agreement (except for the status of Ulster) by an ultimatum - Peace or War. The Nationalists did not challenge it. ww2dbase [AC]

6 Jul 1928 Interactive Map

• Amy Johnson earned her "A" License for aviation in England, United Kingdom. ww2dbase [Amy Johnson | England | CPC]

• Tatsuta Maru arrived at San Francisco, California, United States. ww2dbase [Tatsuta Maru | San Francisco, California | CPC]

• Joseph Stilwell disembarked USAT Grant in China. ww2dbase [Joseph Stilwell | CPC]

• HMS Amphion was commissioned into service. ww2dbase [Perth | CPC]

• The British RAF Fighter Command was established. ww2dbase [CPC]

• After the failure of the Spanish Nationalist attack upon Guadalajara the Spanish Republican troops around Madrid went on to the offensive. General José Miaja ordered two Republican Corps (led by Generals Juan Modesto and Enrique Jurado) to advance southwards from the El Escorial-Madrid road towards Brunette. Their aim was to cut off those Nationalist forces besieging Madrid from the west. At the start of the 20-day battle that ensued, the initial thrust captured Brunette and drove a 5 mile salient into the Nationalist front-line. The Nationalist armies, under the command of General José Varela, then rallied and mounted a counter-attack which forced the republicans almost all the way back to their start line. ww2dbase [The Spanish Civil War | AC]

• Japanese troops conducted a night-time exercise near the border of China and the Japanese-sponsored puppet nation of Manchukuo in northeastern China. The Japanese authorities failed to give the Chinese notice, thus the Chinese guards regarded the Japanese troops as invaders and fired a number of rifle shots at them. At 2300 hours, the Japanese troops fired back, but would very soon pull back. Japanese Major Kiyonao Ichiki reported one of his men was missing after the brief fire fight, suspecting that he was captured by the Chinese. Before midnight, demands for the return of the missing soldiers were being sent to Chinese military headquarters. ww2dbase [Lugou Bridge Incident and Second Battle of Hebei | Beiping | CPC]

• The first modification of Kriegsmarinewerft Wilhelmshaven in Germany was authorized. ww2dbase [Kriegsmarinewerft | Wilhelmshaven, Weser-Ems | CPC]

6 Jul 1937 Interactive Map

• Japanese minelayer Kamome struck a mine in the Yangtze River off Pengze, Jiangxi Province, China; she was towed away for repairs. ww2dbase [Battle of Wuhan | Pengze, Jiangxi | CPC]

• The last remaining Jewish enterprises in Germany were closed. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | CPC]
• HMS Edinburgh was commissioned into service and was assigned to the 18th Cruiser Squadron of the Home Fleet of the British Royal Navy. ww2dbase [Edinburgh | CPC]

• Four Japanese Army Ki-27 fighters strafed ground targets at Pingliang, Gansu Province China. One of the fighters was damaged by ground fire, and its pilot safely landed on the ground and was picked up by another fighter in the group. Chinese troops quickly moved in to capture the relatively good specimen of Japanese technology. Chinese fighter pilot Arthur Chin was sent to study the aircraft; correctly determining that it was flyable, he brought the fighter to a Chinese airfield for further evaluations. ww2dbase [Arthur Chin | Pingliang, Gansu | CPC]

• USS Nashville transited the Panama Canal on her way from Norfolk, Virginia to San Diego, California. ww2dbase [Panama Canal | Nashville | Panama Canal | DS]

6 Jul 1939 Interactive Map

• The first German U-boat base in France was opened at Lorient. ww2dbase [TH]
• German aircraft and minesweepers sank four British submarines (Narwhal, Spearfish, Shark, and Thames). ww2dbase [TH]
• Operation Lever: British Royal Navy Force H under Vice Admiral James Somerville returned to Mers-el-Kébir, Algeria. At dawn, Swordfish aircraft from carrier HMS Ark Royal scored several torpedo hits on French battleship Dunkerque, killing 154 and wounding 8. One torpedo hit patrol boat Terre Neuve, detonating depth charges, killing 8; shock waves from the explosion further damaged Dunkerque. ww2dbase [British Attacks on the French Fleet | CPC]
• British cruisers HMS Capetown and HMS Caledon and destroyers HMS Janus, HMS Juno, HMS Ilex, and HMS Imperial shelled Bardia, Libya near the Egyptian border at 0537 hours, sinking Italian ship Axum and damaged another merchant ship. Italian bombers arrived at 0820 hours, but caused no damage against the British warships. ww2dbase [CPC]
• British submarine HMS Shark, damaged by attacks from German auxiliary minesweepers M1803 (trawler Spitzbergen), M1806 (trawler Cuxhaven), and M1807 (trawler Mulsum) in Boknafjord near Stavanger, Norway on the previous day, became captured by the Germans. She was in the process of being towed by the German ships when she suddenly sank, killing 3. The remaining 32 crew members were rescued and became prisoners of war. ww2dbase [CPC]
• German radio stations played the song "Denn wir fahren gegen Engeland" for the first time. ww2dbase [CPC]

• German submarine U-34 sank Estonian collier Vapper south of Cape Clear, Ireland; 1 was killed and 32 took to lifeboats; German submarine U-99, which had chased Vapper for the past 90 minutes, observed the sinking. To the south, U-30 sank Egyptian ship Angele Mabro west of Brest, France, killing all aboard. ww2dbase [First Happy Time | CPC]

• Comandante Faà di Bruno departed La Spezia, Italy at 0855 hours for exercises, returning at 1210 hours. ww2dbase [Comandante Faà di Bruno | La Spezia, Liguria | CPC]

• Stephen Beattie was made the commanding officer of destroyer HMS Vivien. ww2dbase [Stephen Beattie | CPC]

• Clifton Cates was made the director of Marine Officers Basic School, at the Philadelphia Navy Yard in Pennsylvania, United States. ww2dbase [Philadelphia Navy Yard | Clifton Cates | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | CPC]

6 Jul 1940 Interactive Map

• 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]

• 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]

• Australian troops attacked French troops at El Atiqa and El Boum in Lebanon, capturing both positions by nightfall. ww2dbase [Campaigns in the Middle East | Lebanon | CPC]

• 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]

• Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Kendari, Celebes. ww2dbase [Hikawa Maru | CPC]
• Tirpitz arrived at Bogen near Narvik, Norway. ww2dbase [Tirpitz | CPC]
• Anne Frank and her family went into hiding in the "Secret Annexe" above her father's office in an Amsterdam warehouse. ww2dbase [CPC]
• The British RAF Coastal Command scored its first enemy vessel sunk with the newly equipped Wellington bombers. ww2dbase [Wellington | AC]
• German submarine U-154 sank Panamanian fishing boat Lalita with shellfire 20 miles off the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico at 1837 hours. U-67 sank Norwegian ship Bayard 45 miles south of Pascagoula, Mississippi, United States at 1857 hours; 11 were killed, 21 survived. ww2dbase [Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico Campaigns | CPC]
• Japanese submarine I-10 sank Greek merchant ship Nymphe in the Mozambique Channel at 1615 hours. ww2dbase [Raids into the Indian Ocean | CPC]
• German submarine U-255 sank US ship John Witherspoon; 1 was killed, 49 survived. German aircraft sank US ship Pan Atlantic. Both ships were of Allied convoy PQ-17, traveling in the Barents Sea. ww2dbase [Arctic Convoys | CPC]
• George Marshall asked Douglas MacArthur whether he would like to have George Kenney assigned to him to lead the air forces based in Australia. ww2dbase [George Kenney | CPC]

• German submarine U-201 sank British ship Avila Star 90 miles east of the Azores islands at 0036 hours; 84 were killed, 112 survived. German submarine U-502 was sunk on the surface by a British RAF Wellington bomber with depth charges 250 miles west of France before dawn; all 52 aboard were killed. ww2dbase [Second Happy Time | CPC]

• Japanese merchant ship Naruto Maru took on Australian nurses and 60 prisoners of war and departed Rabaul, New Britain, sailing for Yokohama, Japan. ww2dbase [Rabaul, New Britain | CPC]

• The 1,376-ton Norwegian merchant steamer Hero en route from Beirut in Syria-Lebanon to Port Said in Egypt in ballast was struck by two torpedoes from German submarine U-375 (Kapitänleutnant Jürgen Köenenkamp) at 0526 hours. The first hit the bow of the ship and was followed 30 seconds later by the next at the stern. The vessel disintegrated and was gone to the bottom within 40 seconds 10 miles west of the coast of Palestine. Fourteen men who had been on the deck at the time of the attack survived, either being blown over the side or jumping into the sea. Four Norwegians, two British and 24 Chinese crewmen died for a total of 30. The survivors were picked up by an escort vessel after two hours in the sea clinging to wreckage and taken to Jaffa, Palestine. The master, Erling Nielsen was one of them rescued but he died on board the rescue ship, increase the total death count to 31; Nielsen had been unconscious when he was taken on board and in spite of efforts to revive him for two hours he could not be saved. The other injured were all taken to a hospital in Jaffa. The British Gunner Frank Pottinger had a bad cut on his thigh and ended up having his leg amputated, the other British Gunner John Greighton had injured his back. The remaining four Europeans left the hospital that same evening, while the 6 Chinese survivors, who suffered from burns, cuts and bruises remained. The wreck being close to the coast was blown up and removed in Mar 1944. The 3rd Officer, Finn Kjellevik was later on the steam merchant D/S Storviken when it was torpedoed and sunk by the Japanese on 1 Oct 1943. He was taken prisoner and survived many ordeals until being freed in Tokyo ant the end of hostilities. ww2dbase [CPC, HM]

• Kinryu Maru, another transport, and five destroyers arrived at Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands from Truk, Caroline Islands, disembarking Japanese 11th Establishment Unit, 13th Establishment Unit, 100 trucks, 4 heavy tractors, 6 steam rollers, 2 generators, 2 locomotives with cars, and other equipment necessary for building an airfield. ww2dbase [Guadalcanal Campaign | Guadalcanal | CPC]
• Tenryu escorted a convoy (containing an engineering battalion tasked with setting up an airfield) to Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. ww2dbase [Tenryu | CPC]
• Japanese construction crews arrived at Lunga Point, Guadalcanal. ww2dbase [Guadalcanal Campaign | Henderson Field | Lunga Point, Guadalcanal | CPC]

• German submarine U-132 attacked Allied convoy QS-15 at the mouth of the Saint Lawrence River in Quebec, Canada, sinking Belgian ship Hainaut (at 0521 hours; 1 was killed, 44 survived), sinking Greek ship Anastassios Pateras (at 0521 hours; 3 were killed, 26 survived), and fatally damaging British ship Dinaric (at 0646 hours; 4 were killed); Canadian minesweeper HMCS Drummondville rammed (and missed) U-132 and dropped depth charges, causing minor damage to U-132. ww2dbase [Second Happy Time | U-132 | Gulf of Saint Lawrence, Quebec | CPC]

• Naka exited drydock at Maizuru, Japan. ww2dbase [Maizuru Naval Arsenal | Naka | Maizuru, Kyoto | CPC]

• 20 survivors from the Norwegian merchant steamer Cadmus, torpedoed by German submarine U-129 five days prior, made landfall near Túxpam, Mexico in two lifeboats. ww2dbase [Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico Campaigns | Túxpam, Veracruz | HM]

• German 4th Panzer Army reached the outskirts of Voronezh, Russia and German 6th Army reached Ostrogozhsky 70 miles south of Voronezh, making the Soviets realize that the Germans were heading Caucasus region to the south rather than Moscow to the north. Joseph Stalin ordered Voronezh to be held at all costs in order to main control of the rail network linking the Caucasus region with the areas to the north. Stalin also allowed Semyon Timoshenko to withdraw east of the Don River. ww2dbase [Caucasus Campaign | Voronezh | CPC]

• USS Ranger, Augusta, and Juneau arrived at Port of Spain, Trinidad. ww2dbase [Augusta | Juneau | Ranger | Port of Spain | DS]

• Franklin Roosevelt ordered US Ambassador to France William Leahy to return to the United States to serve as Roosevelt's military chief of staff. ww2dbase [William Leahy | CPC]

6 Jul 1942 Interactive Map

• Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Kavieng, New Ireland departing later on the same day. ww2dbase [Hikawa Maru | CPC]
• After four hours of sea trials off the Golden Gate, USS Bailey returned to Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California. ww2dbase [Bailey | DS]

• Troops of German 1st Mountain Division massacred 107 people of the village of Borova in Albania. ww2dbase [CPC]

• Lieutenant Frederic Hargesheimer of US 8th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron, who had survived the shot down of his aircraft over New Britain, was found by natives after spending a month in the jungle. ww2dbase [New Britain | CPC]

• During Battle of Kula Gulf in the Solomon Islands, US cruisers USS Honolulu, USS Helena, USS St. Louis with destroyers USS Nicholas, USS Radford, USS Jenkins, and USS O'Bannon engaged a Japanese force of destroyers Niizuki, Yunagi, Suzukaze, Tanikaze, Amagiri, Hatsuyuki, Nagatsuki, Satsuki, Mochizuki, Mikazuki and Hamakaze in the early morning darkness. Helena fired on the incoming Japanese convoy at 0157 hours, but the many gun flashes in turn made Helena an attractive target for Japanese gunners. Suzukaze and Tanikaze each launched Type 93 torpedoes. One struck Helena at 0203 hours, followed by two more at 0205 hours. Helena would sink at 0225 hours. Niizuki is sunk by gunfire. Nagatsuki was badly damaged and beached near Bambari Harbor, Kolombangara. ww2dbase [Solomon Islands Campaign | Walden Ainsworth | Helena (St. Louis-class) | Honolulu | Suzukaze | Tanikaze | Nicholas | New Georgia Sound, Solomon Islands | CPC]

• Irako arrived at Truk, Caroline Islands. ww2dbase [Irako | Truk | CPC]
• Sendai and Yugure departed Truk, Caroline Islands. ww2dbase [Sendai | Yugure | Truk | CPC]

• After sundown, B-25 bombers of US 14th Air Force attacked Tianhe Airfield in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China. ww2dbase [Tianhe Airfield | Guangzhou, Guangdong | CPC]

• French and Belgian prisoners of war began to be transferred out of the Oflag IV-C camp at Colditz Castle in Germany for the Oflag X-C camp in Lübeck; the transfer would continue until 12 Jul when the last French and Belgian prisoners were transferred out. ww2dbase [Colditz Castle | Colditz, Sachsen | CPC]

• Captain Franco Lucchini, Italian fighter ace with 26 victories, was shot down and killed by a Spitfire fighter over Sicily, Italy. ww2dbase [Sicilia | AC]

• Dwight Eisenhower arrived at Malta by B-17 aircraft. ww2dbase [Dwight Eisenhower | CPC]

• USS Permit sank a Japanese transport off Hokkaido, Japan, hitting her with 1 of 2 torpedoes fired. ww2dbase [Permit | CPC]

• In Russia, in the north of the Kursk salient, on Central Front, Konstantin Rokossovsky launched a counter-attack, throwing in three tank corps. But it foundered on former Soviet minefields which the Germans had reinforced, and the Soviets instead took up fixed positions to act as a breakwater against a renewed German assault. ww2dbase [Battle of Kursk | Kursk | AC]

• USS Yorktown (Essex-class) exited Chesapeake Bay, United States on her way to the Pacific Ocean. ww2dbase [J. J. Clark | Yorktown (Essex-class) | Norfolk, Virginia | DS]

6 Jul 1943 Interactive Map

• USS Franklin arrived in the Mariana Islands area; she was to remain through 22 Jul 1944 to launch strikes against Japanese position on Rota and Guam islands. ww2dbase [Franklin | CPC]
• USS Tang sank the 39,100-ton Japanese transport Dori Maru off Dalian, China at about 0300 hours with two torpedoes. With this sinking, she obtained the record of the greatest total tonnage sunk by an American submarine during one war patrol. ww2dbase [Tang | CPC]
• Soviet troops captured Kovel, Ukraine. ww2dbase [TH]
• Chaim Weizmann, the future Israeli president, messaged British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, requesting the rail lines leading to Auschwitz Concentration Camp in Poland to be bombed. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | CPC]
• Captain Yujiro Takarada was named the commanding officer of light carrier Hosho. ww2dbase [Hosho | CPC]
• US Navy Special Attack Unit (SAU-1) was formed under Commander James A. Smith for Operation Anvil. ww2dbase [Operation Aphrodite and Operation Anvil | CPC]

• After the escort carrier USS Card’s task group engaged and sank German submarine U-233, escort ships USS Baker and Thomas transferred 30 German prisoners to Card, including U-233’s badly wounded commanding officer Kapitänleutnant Hans Steen. Kapitänleutnant Steen later died of his wounds and was buried at sea with full military honors. ww2dbase [Conclusion of the Battle of the Atlantic | Card | DS]

• Colonel (temporary Lieutenant General) George Patton, Jr. secretly flew into the Cotentin Peninsula in France. ww2dbase [George Patton | AC]
• Wing Commamner Leonard Cheshire led a "Tallboy" attack on the V-3 gun structure at Mimoyecque. After this mission, the last of his fourth tour, he was ordered to rest (he never flew operations again) and two months later he was awarded the Victoria Cross. ww2dbase [Bombing of Cities in France and Low Countries | Mimoyecque, Nord-Pas-de-Calais | AC]
• The USAAF 306th Bomb Group flying from RAF Thurleigh launched a raid against rocket launching sites in the Pas-de-Calais region of France but returned without bombing due to inability to positively identify the target. This was also the day that RAF Thurleigh received a visit from British royalty. HM King George VI, HM Queen Elizabeth, HRH Princess Elizabeth, and courtiers arrived accompanied by Eighth Air Force Commander General Jimmy Doolittle. This was Princess Elizabeth’s first visit to an American air base in Britain and she christened bomber ‘Rose of York’ named in her honor. ww2dbase [RAF Thurleigh | Vergeltungswaffe 1 | Vergeltungswaffe 2 | Pas-de-Calais | DS]

• Baron Hiroshi Oshima, the Japanese ambassador to Berlin, unaware that his reports were being read by the cryptanalysts in Bletchley Park in Britain, told Tokyo that the German high command was still awaiting for George Patton's army group to land in the Pas de Calais, France. A month after D-Day the "Fortitude" deception plan was still misleading the German generals. ww2dbase [Normandy Campaign, Phase 1 | Hiroshi Oshima | Berlin | AC]
• The construction for Z52 was canceled. ww2dbase [Deutsche Schiff- und Maschinenbau AG | Z52 | Bremen, Weser-Ems | CPC]
• The construction for Z53 was canceled. ww2dbase [Deutsche Schiff- und Maschinenbau AG | Z53 | Bremen, Weser-Ems | CPC]
• The construction for Z54 was canceled. ww2dbase [Deutsche Schiff- und Maschinenbau AG | Z54 | Bremen, Weser-Ems | CPC]
• The construction for Z55 was canceled. ww2dbase [Deutsche Schiff- und Maschinenbau AG | Z55 | Bremen, Weser-Ems | CPC]
• The construction for Z56 was canceled. ww2dbase [Deutsche Schiff- und Maschinenbau AG | Z56 | Bremen, Weser-Ems | CPC]

• Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Sixteen men of WIMU (special ordinance project) arrived on board. Part of Air Group 22 arrived. ww2dbase [Barbers Point Naval Air Station | Ewa, Oahu | DS]
• Casablanca-class escort carrier USS Sargent Bay departed Pearl Harbor, Hawaii bound for Eniwetok, Marshall Islands with USAAF's 333rd Fighter Squadron aboard along with their P-47 Thunderbolt aircraft. ww2dbase [Sargent Bay | Pearl Harbor, Oahu | DS]

• British Eighth Army captured Osimo, Italy. ww2dbase [Advance to the Gothic Line | Osimo, Marche | TH]

• Chuichi Nagumo committed suicide for his failure to hold Saipan, Mariana Islands. ww2dbase [Chuichi Nagumo | Saipan | CPC]
• Yoshitsugu Saito announced that he would fight to the death alongside his troops on Saipan, Mariana Islands. ww2dbase [Yoshitsugu Saito | Saipan | CPC]
• USS Yorktown (Essex-class) launched strikes in the Mariana Islands and continued them for the next 17 days. ww2dbase [Mariana Islands Campaign and the Great Turkey Shoot | Yorktown (Essex-class) | DS]

• USS Sunfish sank Soviet merchant ship Ob in the Kurile Islands, hitting her with 1 of 3 torpedoes fired. ww2dbase [Sunfish (Gato-class) | CPC]

• Prisoners Edward Galinski and Mala Zimetbaum, escaped from Auschwitz Concentration Camp in occupied Poland in Jun 1944, were re-captured. They would later be executed for this attempt. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | CPC]

• The Heinkel aircraft of German III/KG3 launched 8 V-1 flying bombs into England, United Kingdom during the night. This squadron lost two planes during take off from their base at Rosi?res, France when they collided on the runway, one crew member was killed. 418 Squadron RAF, flying Mosquito VI aircraft, brought down 12 flying bombs most of them over the cliffs of Beachy Head on the East Sussex coast, while further south after dark, 605 Squadron, flying the Mosquito VI night fighters, shot down 7. Night fighter pilots asked that the aircraft be fitted with dark glass visors as the explosion of the V-1 bomb in the air in front of the attacking aircraft was temporally blinding the pilot and navigator. ww2dbase [V-Weapons Campaign | Vergeltungswaffe 1 | England | HM]

• Franklin Roosevelt met with Charles de Gaulle in Washington DC, United States. ww2dbase [Franklin Roosevelt | Washington | CPC]

6 Jul 1944 Interactive Map

• Norway declared war on Japan. On this date, there were over 800 Norwegians being held in Japanese prisoner of war camps. ww2dbase [TH]
• 517 American B-29 bombers from the Mariana Islands dropped incendiary bombs on Japan. ww2dbase [Bombing of Tokyo and Other Cities | CPC]
• 100 American P-51 and P-38 fighters attacked Japanese targets in Indochina. ww2dbase [CPC]

• USS Whale arrived at Guam, Mariana Islands. ww2dbase [Whale | CPC]

• USS Tunny arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, ending her ninth and final war patrol. ww2dbase [Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Tunny | Honolulu, Oahu | CPC]

• I-14 arrived at Ominato Guard District in Mutsu, Aomori Prefecture, Japan. She was then drydocked for propeller bearing repairs. ww2dbase [I-14 | Mutsu, Aomori | CPC]

• King Mihai I of Romania was awarded the Soviet Order of Victory for his leadership role in the ousting of Ion Antonescu, making him the only civilian recipient of this award. ww2dbase [Mihai I | CPC]

6 Jul 1945 Interactive Map

• USS Tirante was decommissioned from service for the first time. ww2dbase [Tirante | CPC]

• USS Shamrock Bay was decommissioned from service. ww2dbase [Shamrock Bay | CPC]

• The AK-47 assault rifle entered production in the Soviet Union. ww2dbase [CPC]
• Destroyer Yukikaze was transferred to the Republic of China as war reparation. ww2dbase [Yukikaze | CPC]

• USS Charr arrived at Portland, Oregon, United States. ww2dbase [Charr | CPC]

6 Jul 1953 Interactive Map

• USS Pompon was transferred to the Mediterranean Sea. ww2dbase [Pompon | CPC]
• Lieutenant Robert Netting was named the commanding officer of USS Sennet. ww2dbase [Sennet | CPC]

6 Jul 1960 Interactive Map

• Konstantinos Logothetopoulos passed away in Athens, Greece. ww2dbase [Konstantinos Logothetopoulos | Athens | CPC]

• The Japanese government released a statement acknowledging the Japanese military's link to the comfort women system. ww2dbase [CPC]

6 Jul 2013 Interactive Map