6 Jul 1939
![Sims off the Kennebec River, Maine, United States during her trials, 6 July 1939, photo 1 of 3; note flag of shipbuilder Bath Iron Works](/images/imagemagick/tmb_ship_sims2.jpg)
![Sims off the Kennebec River, Maine, United States during her trials, 6 July 1939, photo 2 of 3](/images/imagemagick/tmb_ship_sims3.jpg)
- 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]
![Sims off the Kennebec River, Maine, United States during her trials, 6 July 1939, photo 1 of 3; note flag of shipbuilder Bath Iron Works](/images/imagemagick/tmb_ship_sims2.jpg)
![Sims off the Kennebec River, Maine, United States during her trials, 6 July 1939, photo 2 of 3](/images/imagemagick/tmb_ship_sims3.jpg)
![Sims off the Kennebec River, Maine, United States during her trials, 6 July 1939, photo 3 of 3](/images/imagemagick/tmb_ship_sims4.jpg)
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