Jun 14 Ground broken for Boeing Plant II (ex-AFLC Plant 13) Wichita KS

Jun 26 Finland enters WW II against Russia

Jun 29 Pamela Emily Maud born to William David Davies and Phyllis Maud Davies. Happy 60th Birthday 2001 - love All the Family XXX

Jun 03 Author Irving Wallace marries writer Sylvia Kahn

Jun 13 Battle for Jezzine

Jun 02 Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis claims baseball's "Iron Horse," Lou Gehrig, in New York. The malady is now often referred to as Lou Gehrig's disease.

Jun 22 "Operation Barbarossa," German invasion of the U.S.S.R., gets launched.

Jun 06 The first US navy vessel constructed as mine layer Terror launched

Dec 07 HMCS Windflower (Corvette) lost in a collision

Dec 10 HMS PRINCE OF WALES sunk off Kuantan, Malaya in the South China Sea as many as 5 or 6 torpedoes from Japanese Navy land-based aircraft (Nells and Bettys).Of the crew of 1,612 327 were lost.

Dec 15 A musical standard was recorded this day on Victor Records. Lena Horne sang the torch classic that became her signature: Stormy Weather.

Dec 06 NYC Council agrees to build Idlewild (Kennedy) Airport in Queens

Dec 08 US declares war on Japan.

Dec 22 Winston Churchill arrives in Washington for a wartime conference

Dec 08 As a result of the attack on Pearl Harbour, Britain, the United States and Australia declare war on Japan

Dec 21 HMS AUDACITY, sunk east of Azores by 3 torpedoes from German U-751.

Dec 16 Sarawak occupied by the Japanese

Dec 11 Japanese occupy Guam

Dec 07 Japanese attack Pearl Harbor (a date that will live in infamy) first Japanese submarine sunk by a US ship (USS Ward)

Dec 05 USS Lexington (CV-2) sails with Task Force 12 to ferry Marine aircraft to Midway, leaving no carriers at Pearl Harbor.

Dec 23 American forces on Wake Island surrender to Japanese

Dec 15 A musical standard was recorded this day on Victor Records. Lena Horne sang the torch classic that became her signature Stormy Weather.

Dec 26 Winston Churchill becomes first British PM to address a joint meeting of Congress, warning that the Axis would "stop at nothing"

Dec 25 Japan announces the surrender of the British-Canadian garrison by radio broadcast; 290 members of the Royal Rifles of Canada (a Québec unit) and the Winnipeg Grenadiers are dead, 493 wounded; Canadian survivors spend rest of war in Japanese POW camps

Dec 11 Germany and Italy declare war on US

Dec 17 German troops led by Rommel begin retreating in North Africa

Dec 15 USS Swordfish becomes first US sub to sink a Japanese ship

Dec 17 HMS THRACIAN, lost while in Hong Kong - ran aground, dry-docked but damaged by Japanese bombing, later beached. Salvaged and served in Japanese Navy

Dec 08 USS Wake (PR-3), a river gunboat moored at Shanghai, is only U.S. vessel to surrender during World War II.

Dec 09 China declares war on Japan, Germany and Italy

Dec 19 Company-Sgt. Major John Robert Osborn (The Winnipeg Grenadiers) wins the Victoria Cross at Hong Kong

Dec 12 German occupying army do a house search in Paris looking for Jews

Dec 12 Naval Air Transport Service is established.

Dec 25 Japan announces surrender of British-Canadian garrison at Hong Kong

Dec 27 Japan bombs Manila even though it was declared an "open city"

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