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June 10th

1940: In Norway, the remaining troops of the Norwegian Army surrender. Italy declares war on Britain and France and begins an offensive along the coast of the Riviera.
1942: In the East, 6. Armee forces the withdrawal of Soviet forces from the Charkov area and captures Volchansk and Kupyansk. In Libya, the Afrikakorps (properly, Panzerarmee Afrika) finally captures Bir Hacheim, a strongpoint fiercely defended by Foreign Legionaires of the Free French Forces. The British Eighth Army (Ritchie) retreats toward the Egyptian border.
1943: Beginning of a coordinated air offensive by the US 8th Air Force (Doolittle), flying precision bombing missions by day, and RAF Bomber Command (Harris), flying area saturation missions by night, against major German cities.
1944: In the West, German counterattacks against Allied invasion forces are unsuccessful for lack of armored reserves in the area.
source: http://www.feldgrau.com/june.html

1941: Recruiting begins for Torres Strait Defence Force - Recruitment commenced for the Torres Strait Defence Force to be drawn from the indigenous population of the Torres Strait Islands.
1944: Last Japanese aircraft shot down shot down in New Guinea campaign - Flight Lieutenant Baker pursued and shot down a Japanese dive bomber, making it the last Japanese aircraft shot down by the RAAF in the New Guinea campaign.
1945: Landings at Brunei, Labuan and Muar, Borneo - Codenamed Oboe 6 the 9th Division's landings at Brunei, Labuan and Muar were designed to secure the Brunei Bay area north of Borneo, to permit the establishment of an advanced fleet base to protect Brunei's oil and rubber resources.
source: http://www.awm.gov.au/atwar/thismonth/index.asp

1861: Dorothea Dix is appointed superintendent of female nurses for the Union army.
1863: At the Battle of Brice’s Crossroads in Mississippi, Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest defeats the numerically superior Union troops.
1898: U.S. Marines land in Cuba.
1942: Germany razes the town of Lidice, Czechoslovakia and kills more than 1,300 citizens in retribution of the murder of Reinhard Heydrich.
1944: The U.S. VII and V corps, advancing from Normandy’s beaches, link up and begin moving inland.
source: http://www.historynet.com/tdih0610.htm

1801: The North African state of Tripoli declared war on the United States in a dispute over safe passage of merchant vessels through the Mediterranean.
1999: Yugoslav troops departed Kosovo, prompting NATO to suspend its punishing 78-day air war.
source: http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/20080610.html

1871 - Sinmiyangyo: Captain McLane Tilton leads 109 Marines in naval attack on Han River forts on Kanghwa Island, Korea.
1944 - World War II: In Distomo, Boeotia Prefecture, Greece 218 men, women and children are massacred by German troops.
1965 - Vietnam War: The Battle of Dong Xoai begins.
1967 - Six-Day War ends: Israel and Syria agree to a cease-fire.
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_10th

1917: Italian troops launch a renewed assault on Austro-Hungarian positions in the mountains of the Trentino region in northern Italy, on the border with Austria.
source: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?

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