Sep 14 HMS COVENTRY (AA), sunk in the Eastern Mediterranean, northwest of Alexandria, Egypt by German Ju87 divebombers.

Sep 25 2,000 Jews are deported to Treblinka after a Jewish council chairman, Abraham Gamzu, refuses Gestapo demands to deliver Jews.

Sep 18 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation authorized for radio service

Sep 23 HMAS VOYAGER (RAN),lost in the East Indies, south coast of Timor ran aground, possibly bombed by Japanese aircraft (sources vary) and destroyed by own forces.

Sep 24 3,000 Tuczyn Jews are killed after resisting and escaping a Nazi attack. Only 15 survive.

Sep 11 HMCS Charlottetown lost the Gulf of St. Lawrence

Sep 05 The birth of Raquel Welch, American film actress

Sep 24 General Blamey assumes command of Allied Land Forces in New Guinea

Jun 07 USS Yorktown sinks near Midway Island

Jun 30 Australian troops raid Salamaua

Jun 13 First V-2 rocket launch, Peenem�nde, Germany; reached 1.3 km

Jun 06 Nazis burn village of Lidice Bohemia, as reprisal of killing Heydrich

Jun 27 FBI captures 8 Nazi saboteurs that came from from a sub off NY's Long Island

Jun 04 The Battle of Midway begins

Jun 02 The birth of Barry Levinson, American film director

Jun 04 Japanese suffer heavy losses at Midway Island

Jun 21 129ø F (54ø C), Tirat Zevi, Israel (Asian record)

Jun 21 Rommel takes Tobruk in North Africa

Jun 30 US Mint in New Orleans ceases operation

Jun 04 Battle of Midway begins; Japan's first major defeat in WW II

Jun 28 Germany and Italian Armies reach El Alamein, prepare for attack in Suez area.

Jun 14 The first bazooka rocket gun produced Bridgeport Ct

Jun 11 US & USSR sign Lend-Lease agreement during WW II

Jun 17 The first WW II American expeditionary force lands in Africa (Gold Coast)

Jun 04 Capitol Record Co opens for business

Jun 08 Eisenhower is appointed Commanding General of the European Theater of Operations.

Jun 10 Massacre at Lidice (Czechoslovakia) Gestapo kills 173

Jun 01 Treblinka opens.

Jun 08 Tobruk in the African Desert falls to Germans; Axis claims 25,000 prisoners.

Jun 06 The first nylon parachute jump (Hartford Ct-Adeline Gray)

Jun 12 Tornado kills 35 in Oklahoma City

Jun 18 Eric Nessler of France stays aloft in a glider for 38h21m

Jun 20 Japanese submarine shells isolated Estevan Point on Vancouver Island, with little damage; only time Canadian land territory under fire in World War II

Jun 14 Walt Disney's "Bambi" is released

Jun 05 Eichmann officially notes that since December 1941, 97,000 people have been "processed" in three gas-vans.

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