Jun 29 Following an inspection of Igor I. Sikorsky's VS-300 helicopter, Lieutenant Commander F. A. Erickson, USCG, recommended that helicopters be obtained for antisubmarine convoy duty and life-saving.

Jun 17 HMS WILD SWAN, sunk in the North Atlantic off south west Ireland (c 50-00'N, 11-00'W) - by German Ju88 bombers.

Jun 18 Bernard W Robinson, becomes first black ensign in US Navy

Jun 06 Japanese forces retreat, ending Battle of Midway

Jun 25 British RAF staged a 1,000 bomb raid on Bremen Germany (WW II)

Jun 06 Japanese are turned back at the Battle of Midway.

Dec 08 Eight PT boats (PT 36, PT 37, PT 40, PT 43, PT 44, PT 48, PT 59, and PT 109) turn back 8 Japanese destroyers attempting to reinforce Japanese forces on Guadalcanal.

Dec 24 The department of National Defence says there are now 681,615 volunteers and conscripts in the Canadian forces.

Dec 04 FDR orders dismantling of Works Progress Administration

Dec 02 First successful nuclear chain reaction, created by physicists Enrico Fermi and Arthur Crompton

Dec 15 Massachusetts issues first US vehicular license plate tabs

Dec 26 The Canadian-escorted convoy ONS-154 loses 14 ships to German U-boats in mid-Atlantic; gets 32 to Britain by Dec. 30.

Dec 17 Allies condemn the Nazis for murdering Jews.

Dec 31 Commissioning of USS Essex (CV-9), first of new class of aircraft carriers, at Norfolk, VA

Dec 15 The Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities issued the first plastic license-plate tabs.

Dec 24 First powered flight of V-1 buzz bomb, Peenemonde, Germany

Dec 02 The First controlled nuclear chain reaction (University of Chicago)

Dec 04 First US citizenship granted an alien on foreign soil (James Hoey)

Dec 04 US bombers struck Italian mainland for first time in WW II

Dec 28 Robert Sullivan becomes first pilot to fly the Atlantic 100 times

Aug 30 Battle of Alam Halfa – 9th Australian Division again in action at El Alamein

Aug 10 HMS EAGLE sunk north of Algiers, Algeria by 4 torpedoes from German U-73. 260 men lost out a wartime crew of 1,160

Aug 27 HMCS Oakville (Corvette) sinks a U-Boat in the Caribbean

Aug 09 HMAS CANBERRA (RAN) sunk in the South West Pacific, SE of Savo Island off northern Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands - by torpedoes and 8in gunfire of Japanese cruiser force.

Aug 28 Reigner cable is sent to Stephen S. Wise - specifying Nazi plans to exterminate almost 4 million Jews.

Aug 12 HMS CAIRO (AA), SUNK, Central Mediterranean, north of Bizerta, Tunisia by 1 torpedo from Italian submarine 'Axum'.

Aug 25 Battle of Milne Bay, Papua

Aug 26 7,000 Jews rounded up in Vichy Free Zone of France

Aug 19 Lt.-Colonel Charles C.I. Merritt (The South Saksatchewan Regiment) wins the Victoria Corss at Dieppe, France

Aug 08 6 convicted Nazi saboteurs who landed in US executed in Wash DC

Aug 17 US bombers staged 1st independent raid on Europe attack Rouen, France

Aug 17 Submarines USS Nautilus and USS Argonaut land 222 Marines on Makin Island, first amphibious attack made from submarines

Aug 19 First American offensive in Pacific in WW2, Guadalcanal, Solomon Is

Aug 19 Honorary Capt. John Weir Foote (Cdn. Chaplain Service) wins the Victoria Cross at Dieppe, France

Aug 19 1,000 Canadian and British soldiers killed raiding Dieppe, France

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