This day in military history..
tomtom22
Chief Engineer
The Longest Day
June 6th
1940: In the West, 7. Panzerdivision (Rommel). advancing W of Amiens, penetratees 20 miles into French territory. U-46 (Kptlt. Sohler) sinks the British armed merchant cruiser Carinthia off the west coast of Ireland.
1941: Hittler issues a directive for the implementation of the Kommissarbefehl (Commissar Order) which calls for the summary execution of all Soviet political commissars attached to the Red Army; this order is tacitly disobeyed by most German army and corps commanders who deem it contrary to German military custom and tradition.
1944: D-DAY. - In the early morning hours, the Allied Expeditionary Force of American, British, Canadian, Polish, and Free French troops begins Operation Overlord, the long-awaited invasion of 'Fortress Europe', as the Germans call it. After an intensive naval and aerial bombardment, the first wave of 5 divisions (156,115 men) are landed at designated beaches in Normandy named Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno and Sword, preceded by some 12,000 paratroopers of the US 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions behind the German lines on the Cotentin peninsula and the British 6th Airborne Division near Caen. These forces are supported by 1,213 warships, including 7 battleships and 23 cruisers, 1,600 auliary ships, and 4,126 landing craft, as well as several Allied air forces flying 14,674 sorties. Opposing them in their bunkers on the beaches are 5 lowgrade German infantry divisions with about 50,000 men and 100 tanks and assault guns. Despite some heavy casualties, especially at Omaha Beach, the German defenders, stunned and surprised by the massive onslaught, are progressively overwhelmed, and most of the Allied objectives are reached and secured by nightfall. There is little opposition from the Luftwaffe or Kriegsmarine.
source: http://www.feldgrau.com/june.html
1942: Battle of Midway ends - The battle of Midway was the first decisive defeat inflicted on Japan by America in the Second World War. The battle shifted the balance of sea power in the Pacific towards the Allies and forced Japan to abandon plans for advances on New Caledonia, Fiji and Samoa and delayed their offensive in New Guinea.
1969: Battle of Binh Ba, South Vietnam - Binh Ba, located five kilometres north of the Australian base at Nui Dat was the site of a battle between a combined force of Viet Cong guerillas and North Vietnamese Army troops after they occupied the village. They were driven off after more than a day's fighting. This was the last large-scale clash in Phouc Tuy.
source: http://www.awm.gov.au/atwar/thismonth/index.asp
1513: Battle of Novara. Swiss troops defeat the French under Louis de la Tremoille, forcing the French to abandon Milan. Duke Massimiliano Sforza is restored.
1813: Battle of Stoney Creek - A British force of 700 under John Vincent defeat an American force three times its size under William Winder and John Chandler.
1862: Battle of Memphis - Union forces capture Memphis, Tennessee, from the Confederates.
1918 - Battle of Belleau Wood begins .
1982 - 1982 Lebanon War begins: Forces under IsraeliDefense MinisterAriel Sharon invade southern Lebanon in their "Operation Peace for the Galilee," eventually reaching as far north as the capitalBeirut.
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June 6
1944: Normandy France - D-DAY: Operation Overlord's 60-mile front opens a new campaign in western Europe as about 14,000 Canadian soldiers join in the landing on Juno beach between Courseulles and St-Aubin-sur-Mer. RCN minesweepers help clear the lanes in, and RCAF bombers and fighters help soften up the German defenses. The main task of the Canadian Army is to push through the gap between Bayeux and Caen. The 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion red berets were part of the advance landing during the night, capturing a bridge near Caen with the British. At about 7:40 am, the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division and 2nd and 3rd Armoured, under Major-General R. F. L. Keller, start landing in rough seas. The 8th Brigade capture Bernières-sur-Mer [in the picture] by 9:30 am but mines and German anti-tank guns hold up the advance inland, creating a traffic jam in the village streets; they take Bény by evening. The 7th Brigade captures Courseulles, Ste-Croix and Banville, with heavy losses. The 9th Brigade make it through Bény to Villons-les-Buissons, less than four miles from Caen, and nearly at their goal - Carpiquet airport. Canadian casualties that day are less than expected - 715 wounded, 359 dead.
source: http://www1.sympatico.ca/cgi-bin/on_...mth=Jun&day=06
1972: South Vietnamese forces drive out all but a few of the communist troops remaining in Kontum. Over 200 North Vietnamese had been killed in six battles in and around the city. The city had come under attack in April when the North Vietnamese had launched their Nguyen Hue Offensive, a massive invasion by North Vietnamese forces designed to strike the blow that would win them the war. The attacking force included 14 infantry divisions and 26 separate regiments, with more than 120,000 troops and approximately 1,200 tanks and other armored vehicles. In addition to Kontum, the other main North Vietnamese objectives were Quang Tri in the north and An Loc farther to the south.
source: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?
June 6th
1940: In the West, 7. Panzerdivision (Rommel). advancing W of Amiens, penetratees 20 miles into French territory. U-46 (Kptlt. Sohler) sinks the British armed merchant cruiser Carinthia off the west coast of Ireland.
1941: Hittler issues a directive for the implementation of the Kommissarbefehl (Commissar Order) which calls for the summary execution of all Soviet political commissars attached to the Red Army; this order is tacitly disobeyed by most German army and corps commanders who deem it contrary to German military custom and tradition.
1944: D-DAY. - In the early morning hours, the Allied Expeditionary Force of American, British, Canadian, Polish, and Free French troops begins Operation Overlord, the long-awaited invasion of 'Fortress Europe', as the Germans call it. After an intensive naval and aerial bombardment, the first wave of 5 divisions (156,115 men) are landed at designated beaches in Normandy named Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno and Sword, preceded by some 12,000 paratroopers of the US 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions behind the German lines on the Cotentin peninsula and the British 6th Airborne Division near Caen. These forces are supported by 1,213 warships, including 7 battleships and 23 cruisers, 1,600 auliary ships, and 4,126 landing craft, as well as several Allied air forces flying 14,674 sorties. Opposing them in their bunkers on the beaches are 5 lowgrade German infantry divisions with about 50,000 men and 100 tanks and assault guns. Despite some heavy casualties, especially at Omaha Beach, the German defenders, stunned and surprised by the massive onslaught, are progressively overwhelmed, and most of the Allied objectives are reached and secured by nightfall. There is little opposition from the Luftwaffe or Kriegsmarine.
source: http://www.feldgrau.com/june.html
1942: Battle of Midway ends - The battle of Midway was the first decisive defeat inflicted on Japan by America in the Second World War. The battle shifted the balance of sea power in the Pacific towards the Allies and forced Japan to abandon plans for advances on New Caledonia, Fiji and Samoa and delayed their offensive in New Guinea.
1969: Battle of Binh Ba, South Vietnam - Binh Ba, located five kilometres north of the Australian base at Nui Dat was the site of a battle between a combined force of Viet Cong guerillas and North Vietnamese Army troops after they occupied the village. They were driven off after more than a day's fighting. This was the last large-scale clash in Phouc Tuy.
source: http://www.awm.gov.au/atwar/thismonth/index.asp
1513: Battle of Novara. Swiss troops defeat the French under Louis de la Tremoille, forcing the French to abandon Milan. Duke Massimiliano Sforza is restored.
1813: Battle of Stoney Creek - A British force of 700 under John Vincent defeat an American force three times its size under William Winder and John Chandler.
1862: Battle of Memphis - Union forces capture Memphis, Tennessee, from the Confederates.
1918 - Battle of Belleau Wood begins .
1982 - 1982 Lebanon War begins: Forces under IsraeliDefense MinisterAriel Sharon invade southern Lebanon in their "Operation Peace for the Galilee," eventually reaching as far north as the capitalBeirut.
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June 6
1944: Normandy France - D-DAY: Operation Overlord's 60-mile front opens a new campaign in western Europe as about 14,000 Canadian soldiers join in the landing on Juno beach between Courseulles and St-Aubin-sur-Mer. RCN minesweepers help clear the lanes in, and RCAF bombers and fighters help soften up the German defenses. The main task of the Canadian Army is to push through the gap between Bayeux and Caen. The 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion red berets were part of the advance landing during the night, capturing a bridge near Caen with the British. At about 7:40 am, the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division and 2nd and 3rd Armoured, under Major-General R. F. L. Keller, start landing in rough seas. The 8th Brigade capture Bernières-sur-Mer [in the picture] by 9:30 am but mines and German anti-tank guns hold up the advance inland, creating a traffic jam in the village streets; they take Bény by evening. The 7th Brigade captures Courseulles, Ste-Croix and Banville, with heavy losses. The 9th Brigade make it through Bény to Villons-les-Buissons, less than four miles from Caen, and nearly at their goal - Carpiquet airport. Canadian casualties that day are less than expected - 715 wounded, 359 dead.
source: http://www1.sympatico.ca/cgi-bin/on_...mth=Jun&day=06
1972: South Vietnamese forces drive out all but a few of the communist troops remaining in Kontum. Over 200 North Vietnamese had been killed in six battles in and around the city. The city had come under attack in April when the North Vietnamese had launched their Nguyen Hue Offensive, a massive invasion by North Vietnamese forces designed to strike the blow that would win them the war. The attacking force included 14 infantry divisions and 26 separate regiments, with more than 120,000 troops and approximately 1,200 tanks and other armored vehicles. In addition to Kontum, the other main North Vietnamese objectives were Quang Tri in the north and An Loc farther to the south.
source: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?
tomtom22
Chief Engineer
June 7th
1942: In the East, 11. Armee (von Manstein) begins the final assault on the Soviet fortress of Sevastopol in the Crimea.
1944: In the West, US forces landed in Normandy link up with elements of the British 6th Airborne Division South of Caen.
source: http://www.feldgrau.com/june.html
1917: Captain R.C. Grieve, VC - Captain R.C. Grieve, 37th Battalion, originally from Melbourne, wins the Victoria Cross at Messines.
1951: 3rd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment - 3RAR patrols sent across the Imjin River and they begin to win control of the north bank.
1968: Prime Minister visits Vietnam - Prime Minister Gorton begins two-day visit to Vietnam against a background of both a growing Australian military commitment to the war and steadily increasing, though not yet overwhelming, domestic opposition.
1917: Private J. Carroll, VC - Private J. Carroll, 33rd Battalion, originally from Brisbane, wins the Victoria Cross at St Yves (battle of Messines)..
source: http://www.awm.gov.au/atwar/thismonth/index.asp
1917: Battle of Messines Ridge - The British 2nd Army, led by Herbert Plumer, scores a crushing victory over the Germans at Messines Ridge in northern France, marking the successful prelude to an Allied offensive designed to break the grinding stalemate on the Western Front in World War I.
source: http://www.historychannel.com/tdih/tdih.jsp?
1863 - Mexico City is captured by French troops.
1917 - World War I: Allied ammonal mines underneath German trenches in Mesen Ridge are detonated, killing 10,000 German troops.
1967 - The Israeli forces occupy Jerusalem during the Six-Day War.
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June 6
1944: Normandy France - D-DAY + 1; the 3rd Canadian Division, 9th Canadian Brigade, North Novas with the Sherbrooke tanks for support, and some Cameron Highlander machine-gunners, push through Buron and Authie toward Capriquet airport, 3 miles west of Caen; lose naval gunfire support, pass out of range of Canadian artillery, and lose contact with a British brigade ordered elsewhere; Lt Col Petch decides to withdraw to higher ground, but C company attacked by the German 12th SS Panzer at Authie, just North of Caen-Bayeux road; 250 North Nova Scotia Highlanders and 60 Sherbrooke Fusilier tankmen are killed or captured; 23 Canadian POWs are executed that night by the Panzers.
source: http://www1.sympatico.ca/cgi-bin/on_...mth=Jun&day=07
1940: The French bomb Berlin. King Haakon VII and the Norwegian government leave Tromsö for England. Allied troops fall back on Bresles front, 60 miles north of Paris.
1941: The first of five heavy night raids by the RAF begins on Brest as Prinz Eugen shelters there.
1942: The Japanese make landings on Attu and Kiska Islands in the Aleutian Islands. The US carrier Yorktown, having been damaged on the 4th June, is torpedoed and sunk by a Japanese submarine whilst enroute to Pearl Harbor for repairs. General Erich von Manstein hurls his troops in the grand assault on the besieged port of Sevastopol in a two-pronged assault. The Soviets resist fanatically in excellent fortifications. The Germans gain ground but take heavy casualties, and have to bring in reinforcements to take the city. However, the continuous German attacks wear down the defenders ammunition supplies, which must be brought in by sea through a tight German blockade maintained by the Luftwaffe, E-boats, and Italian midget submarines.
1944: The British 2nd Division is now only 55 miles from Imphal. Mokmer airfield on Biak is captured by U.S. troops. The Americans take Civitavecchia on the western coast of Italy. British troops liberate Bayeux, five miles inland from the Normandy coast. All beachheads are reported as established.
1945: The first allied cargo ship for three years enters Wewak harbour, in New Guinea. King Haakon VII returns to Norway, on the fifth anniversary of his leaving the country.
source: http://www.worldwar-2.net/timelines/timelines-index.htm
1981: Israeli military planes destroyed a nuclear power plant in Iraq, a facility the Israelis charged could have been used to make nuclear weapons.
source: http://www.nytimes.com/learning/gene.../20080607.html
1819- LT John White on merchant ship Franklin, anchored off Vung Tau is first U.S. naval officer to visit Vietnam
1917 - U.S. subchasers arrive at Corfu for anti-submarine patrols
1942 - Battle of Midway ends with loss of USS Yorktown
1944 - Construction of artificial harbors and sheltered anchorages begins off Normandy coast
1991 - Joint Task Force Sea Angel ends relief operations in Bangladesh after Cyclone Marian
source: http://www.history.navy.mil/wars/datesjun.htm
1942: The Japanese invade Attu and Kiska in the Aleutian Islands of Alaska.
1968: In Operation Swift Saber, U.S. Marines sweep an area 10 miles northwest of Danang in South Vietnam.
source: http://www.historynet.com/tdih0607.htm
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1942: In the East, 11. Armee (von Manstein) begins the final assault on the Soviet fortress of Sevastopol in the Crimea.
1944: In the West, US forces landed in Normandy link up with elements of the British 6th Airborne Division South of Caen.
source: http://www.feldgrau.com/june.html
1917: Captain R.C. Grieve, VC - Captain R.C. Grieve, 37th Battalion, originally from Melbourne, wins the Victoria Cross at Messines.
1951: 3rd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment - 3RAR patrols sent across the Imjin River and they begin to win control of the north bank.
1968: Prime Minister visits Vietnam - Prime Minister Gorton begins two-day visit to Vietnam against a background of both a growing Australian military commitment to the war and steadily increasing, though not yet overwhelming, domestic opposition.
1917: Private J. Carroll, VC - Private J. Carroll, 33rd Battalion, originally from Brisbane, wins the Victoria Cross at St Yves (battle of Messines)..
source: http://www.awm.gov.au/atwar/thismonth/index.asp
1917: Battle of Messines Ridge - The British 2nd Army, led by Herbert Plumer, scores a crushing victory over the Germans at Messines Ridge in northern France, marking the successful prelude to an Allied offensive designed to break the grinding stalemate on the Western Front in World War I.
source: http://www.historychannel.com/tdih/tdih.jsp?
1863 - Mexico City is captured by French troops.
1917 - World War I: Allied ammonal mines underneath German trenches in Mesen Ridge are detonated, killing 10,000 German troops.
1967 - The Israeli forces occupy Jerusalem during the Six-Day War.
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June 6
1944: Normandy France - D-DAY + 1; the 3rd Canadian Division, 9th Canadian Brigade, North Novas with the Sherbrooke tanks for support, and some Cameron Highlander machine-gunners, push through Buron and Authie toward Capriquet airport, 3 miles west of Caen; lose naval gunfire support, pass out of range of Canadian artillery, and lose contact with a British brigade ordered elsewhere; Lt Col Petch decides to withdraw to higher ground, but C company attacked by the German 12th SS Panzer at Authie, just North of Caen-Bayeux road; 250 North Nova Scotia Highlanders and 60 Sherbrooke Fusilier tankmen are killed or captured; 23 Canadian POWs are executed that night by the Panzers.
source: http://www1.sympatico.ca/cgi-bin/on_...mth=Jun&day=07
1940: The French bomb Berlin. King Haakon VII and the Norwegian government leave Tromsö for England. Allied troops fall back on Bresles front, 60 miles north of Paris.
1941: The first of five heavy night raids by the RAF begins on Brest as Prinz Eugen shelters there.
1942: The Japanese make landings on Attu and Kiska Islands in the Aleutian Islands. The US carrier Yorktown, having been damaged on the 4th June, is torpedoed and sunk by a Japanese submarine whilst enroute to Pearl Harbor for repairs. General Erich von Manstein hurls his troops in the grand assault on the besieged port of Sevastopol in a two-pronged assault. The Soviets resist fanatically in excellent fortifications. The Germans gain ground but take heavy casualties, and have to bring in reinforcements to take the city. However, the continuous German attacks wear down the defenders ammunition supplies, which must be brought in by sea through a tight German blockade maintained by the Luftwaffe, E-boats, and Italian midget submarines.
1944: The British 2nd Division is now only 55 miles from Imphal. Mokmer airfield on Biak is captured by U.S. troops. The Americans take Civitavecchia on the western coast of Italy. British troops liberate Bayeux, five miles inland from the Normandy coast. All beachheads are reported as established.
1945: The first allied cargo ship for three years enters Wewak harbour, in New Guinea. King Haakon VII returns to Norway, on the fifth anniversary of his leaving the country.
source: http://www.worldwar-2.net/timelines/timelines-index.htm
1981: Israeli military planes destroyed a nuclear power plant in Iraq, a facility the Israelis charged could have been used to make nuclear weapons.
source: http://www.nytimes.com/learning/gene.../20080607.html
1819- LT John White on merchant ship Franklin, anchored off Vung Tau is first U.S. naval officer to visit Vietnam
1917 - U.S. subchasers arrive at Corfu for anti-submarine patrols
1942 - Battle of Midway ends with loss of USS Yorktown
1944 - Construction of artificial harbors and sheltered anchorages begins off Normandy coast
1991 - Joint Task Force Sea Angel ends relief operations in Bangladesh after Cyclone Marian
source: http://www.history.navy.mil/wars/datesjun.htm
1942: The Japanese invade Attu and Kiska in the Aleutian Islands of Alaska.
1968: In Operation Swift Saber, U.S. Marines sweep an area 10 miles northwest of Danang in South Vietnam.
source: http://www.historynet.com/tdih0607.htm
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tomtom22
Chief Engineer
June 8th
1940: In Norway, the evacuation of British and French troops (24,000 men) from Narvik and Harstad is completed. The British aircraft carrier Glorious is sunk by the German heavy battle cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau SW of Narvik. King Haakon and the Norwegian government leave Tromsö for England.
1941: British and Free French forces invade Lebanon and Syria against stiff resistance by Vichy French troops.
source: http://www.feldgrau.com/june.html
1941: Australians attack Vichy French in Syria - 7th Division and Imperial forces attack Vichy French in Syria.
1942: Sydney and Newcastle shelled - In addition to launching the midget submarines that attacked Sydney Harbour and attacking shipping on Australia's east coast Japanese submarines shelled Sydney and Newcastle, but with little effect.source: http://www.awm.gov.au/atwar/thismonth/index.asp
1940: Montreal Quebec - RCAF's No. 1 Fighter Squadron leaves for Britain.
1944: Caen France -Canadians move inland from Juno beach; Rommel orders Kurt Meyer's 12th SS Panzer Grenadiers to attack the Canadian 7th Brigade at Putot-en-Basin (8 kms west of Caen). They cross the railway and outflank the Royal Winnipeg Rifles, destroying the three forward companies; the rest withdraw, leaving their wounded behind; the Canadian Scottish, Canscots and 1st Hussars then use an artillery barrage from the 12th and 13th field regiments to retake Putot, but Meyer counter-attacks with 22 Panther tanks, the Regina Rifles fight a night-long battle, and hold. During these fights, the SS murder several Canadian POWs, including six Winnipeg Rifles, and a Red Cross stretcher-bearer, who are ordered into a wood and shot in the temple; 13 more Canadians are executed within 100 yards of the Command post; the bodies of 7 more are found near-by, all shot in the head with small arms; finally, 40 Winnipegs and Cameron Highlanders are marched into a field, ordered to sit together with the wounded at their centre, and machine gunned; 5 escape. Atlantic - Flight Officer K. O. Moore, piloting a Canadian Liberator bomber, destroys two German U-Boats in 22 minutes.
source: http://www1.sympatico.ca/cgi-bin/on_this_day?mth=Jun&day=08
1830 - Sloop-of-war Vincennes becomes first U.S. warship to circle the globe
1853 - Commodore Matthew Perry arrives at Uraga, Japan to begin negotiations for a treaty with Japan
1880 - Congress authorizes the Office of Judge Advocate General
1937 - Observation of total eclipse of the sun by U.S. Navy detachment commanded by CAPT J. F. Hellweg, USN, participating in the National Geographic Society - United States Navy Eclipse Expedition at Canton Island in the Phoenix Islands, Pacific Ocean. USS Avocet was assigned to this expediton.
1958 - Navy and Post Office deliver first official missile mail when USS Barbero (SS-317) fired Regulus II missile with 3000 letters 100 miles east of Jacksonville, FL to Mayport, FL.
1960 - Helicopters from USS Yorktown (CVS-10) rescue 54 crewmen of British SS Shunlee, grounded on Pratus Reef in South China Sea.
1962 - Medical team from Naval Hospital, Bethesda, MD; Naval Medical Research Institute, Bethesda, MD; and Naval Preventative Medicine Unit No. 2 Norfolk, VA sent to San Pedro Sula, Honduras to fight epidemic of infectious gastroenteritis.
1967 - USS Liberty (AGTR-5) attacked by Israeli forces in Mediterranean
1990 - CDR Rosemary Mariner becomes first Navy women to command fleet jet aircraft squadron.
source: http://www.history.navy.mil/wars/datesjun.htm
1862: The Army of the Potomac defeats Confederate forces at Battle of Cross Keys, Virginia.
1904: U.S. Marines land in Tangiers, Morocco, to protect U.S. citizens.
1995: U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Scott O’Grady is rescued by U.S. Marines in Bosnia.
source: http://www.historynet.com/tdih0608.htm
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1940: In Norway, the evacuation of British and French troops (24,000 men) from Narvik and Harstad is completed. The British aircraft carrier Glorious is sunk by the German heavy battle cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau SW of Narvik. King Haakon and the Norwegian government leave Tromsö for England.
1941: British and Free French forces invade Lebanon and Syria against stiff resistance by Vichy French troops.
source: http://www.feldgrau.com/june.html
1941: Australians attack Vichy French in Syria - 7th Division and Imperial forces attack Vichy French in Syria.
1942: Sydney and Newcastle shelled - In addition to launching the midget submarines that attacked Sydney Harbour and attacking shipping on Australia's east coast Japanese submarines shelled Sydney and Newcastle, but with little effect.source: http://www.awm.gov.au/atwar/thismonth/index.asp
1940: Montreal Quebec - RCAF's No. 1 Fighter Squadron leaves for Britain.
1944: Caen France -Canadians move inland from Juno beach; Rommel orders Kurt Meyer's 12th SS Panzer Grenadiers to attack the Canadian 7th Brigade at Putot-en-Basin (8 kms west of Caen). They cross the railway and outflank the Royal Winnipeg Rifles, destroying the three forward companies; the rest withdraw, leaving their wounded behind; the Canadian Scottish, Canscots and 1st Hussars then use an artillery barrage from the 12th and 13th field regiments to retake Putot, but Meyer counter-attacks with 22 Panther tanks, the Regina Rifles fight a night-long battle, and hold. During these fights, the SS murder several Canadian POWs, including six Winnipeg Rifles, and a Red Cross stretcher-bearer, who are ordered into a wood and shot in the temple; 13 more Canadians are executed within 100 yards of the Command post; the bodies of 7 more are found near-by, all shot in the head with small arms; finally, 40 Winnipegs and Cameron Highlanders are marched into a field, ordered to sit together with the wounded at their centre, and machine gunned; 5 escape. Atlantic - Flight Officer K. O. Moore, piloting a Canadian Liberator bomber, destroys two German U-Boats in 22 minutes.
source: http://www1.sympatico.ca/cgi-bin/on_this_day?mth=Jun&day=08
1830 - Sloop-of-war Vincennes becomes first U.S. warship to circle the globe
1853 - Commodore Matthew Perry arrives at Uraga, Japan to begin negotiations for a treaty with Japan
1880 - Congress authorizes the Office of Judge Advocate General
1937 - Observation of total eclipse of the sun by U.S. Navy detachment commanded by CAPT J. F. Hellweg, USN, participating in the National Geographic Society - United States Navy Eclipse Expedition at Canton Island in the Phoenix Islands, Pacific Ocean. USS Avocet was assigned to this expediton.
1958 - Navy and Post Office deliver first official missile mail when USS Barbero (SS-317) fired Regulus II missile with 3000 letters 100 miles east of Jacksonville, FL to Mayport, FL.
1960 - Helicopters from USS Yorktown (CVS-10) rescue 54 crewmen of British SS Shunlee, grounded on Pratus Reef in South China Sea.
1962 - Medical team from Naval Hospital, Bethesda, MD; Naval Medical Research Institute, Bethesda, MD; and Naval Preventative Medicine Unit No. 2 Norfolk, VA sent to San Pedro Sula, Honduras to fight epidemic of infectious gastroenteritis.
1967 - USS Liberty (AGTR-5) attacked by Israeli forces in Mediterranean
1990 - CDR Rosemary Mariner becomes first Navy women to command fleet jet aircraft squadron.
source: http://www.history.navy.mil/wars/datesjun.htm
1862: The Army of the Potomac defeats Confederate forces at Battle of Cross Keys, Virginia.
1904: U.S. Marines land in Tangiers, Morocco, to protect U.S. citizens.
1995: U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Scott O’Grady is rescued by U.S. Marines in Bosnia.
source: http://www.historynet.com/tdih0608.htm
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tomtom22
Chief Engineer
June 9th
1940: In the West, German forces of Heeresgruppe A (von Küchler) advancing S from the Somme capture Rouen on the Seine.
1942: 6. Armee (Paulus) launches a counterattack against advancing Soviet forces in the Charkov area.
1944: The Red Army begins an offensive against Finnish positions in the Karelian Isthmus N of Leningrad. In Normandy, US forces advancing from Utah Beach capture St. Mere-Eglise.
source: http://www.feldgrau.com/june.html
1882 - Establishment of Office of Naval Records of the War of the Rebellion (became part of Naval Historical Center)
1942 - First Navy photograhic interpretation unit set up in the Atlanic.
1959 - Launching of USS George Washington (SSBN-598), first nuclear powered fleet ballistic missile submarine, at Groton, CT
source: http://www.history.navy.mil/wars/datesjun.htm
1941: Litani River, Lebanon - Having seen the bridge over the River destroyed by Vichy French troops, two platoons of the 7th Division crossed the Litani River in canvas boats and captured several French positions on the far shore.
source: http://www.awm.gov.au/atwar/thismonth/index.asp
1775: Quebec Quebec - Guy Carleton, Baron Dorchester proclaims martial law and calls out militia to augment 800 British regular troops; suspends administration of the Quebec Act to meet the American invasion.
1942: Valetta Malta - George 'Buzz' Beurling reaches Malta; starts rise to top rank of Canadian fighter pilots; the Montrealer will shoot down 15 enemy aircraft while with the Royal Air Force.
1944: Norrey France -D-Day +3; Kurt Meyer withdraws his defeated 12th SS Panzer Grenadiers to Rots, then throws his last fresh Panther tank company in broad daylight against the Regina Rifles position at Norrey; but the 17-pounder Sherman Firefly tanks of the 1st Hussars drive him back. Later in the day, the Queens Own Rifles and 1st Hussars capture the village of Le Mesnil-Patry, seven miles forward of Norrey; attacked by 88s, they lose 19 of the Hussar Shermans in fifteen minutes; the Queen's Own Rifles have 87 casualties, the 1st Hussars 60. Later in the day, the SS executes 18 more Canadian POWs at Abbey d'Ardenne, Kurt Meyer's HQ, on his orders.
source: http://www1.sympatico.ca/cgi-bin/on_this_day?mth=Jun&day=09
1863: At the Battle of Brandy Station in Virginia, Union and Confederate cavalries clash in the largest cavalry battle of the Civil War.
1951: After several unsuccessful attacks on French colonial troops, North Vietnam’s General Vo Nguyen Giap orders Viet Minh to withdraw from the Red River Delta.
1972: American advisor John Paul Vann is killed in a helicopter accident in Vietnam. (Editorial Note: One of the very few men who truly understood how to pursue the fight against the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese army, a great loss.)
source: http://www.historynet.com/today_in_history?tihMonth=6&tihDay=9&tdih=GO
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1940: In the West, German forces of Heeresgruppe A (von Küchler) advancing S from the Somme capture Rouen on the Seine.
1942: 6. Armee (Paulus) launches a counterattack against advancing Soviet forces in the Charkov area.
1944: The Red Army begins an offensive against Finnish positions in the Karelian Isthmus N of Leningrad. In Normandy, US forces advancing from Utah Beach capture St. Mere-Eglise.
source: http://www.feldgrau.com/june.html
1882 - Establishment of Office of Naval Records of the War of the Rebellion (became part of Naval Historical Center)
1942 - First Navy photograhic interpretation unit set up in the Atlanic.
1959 - Launching of USS George Washington (SSBN-598), first nuclear powered fleet ballistic missile submarine, at Groton, CT
source: http://www.history.navy.mil/wars/datesjun.htm
1941: Litani River, Lebanon - Having seen the bridge over the River destroyed by Vichy French troops, two platoons of the 7th Division crossed the Litani River in canvas boats and captured several French positions on the far shore.
source: http://www.awm.gov.au/atwar/thismonth/index.asp
1775: Quebec Quebec - Guy Carleton, Baron Dorchester proclaims martial law and calls out militia to augment 800 British regular troops; suspends administration of the Quebec Act to meet the American invasion.
1942: Valetta Malta - George 'Buzz' Beurling reaches Malta; starts rise to top rank of Canadian fighter pilots; the Montrealer will shoot down 15 enemy aircraft while with the Royal Air Force.
1944: Norrey France -D-Day +3; Kurt Meyer withdraws his defeated 12th SS Panzer Grenadiers to Rots, then throws his last fresh Panther tank company in broad daylight against the Regina Rifles position at Norrey; but the 17-pounder Sherman Firefly tanks of the 1st Hussars drive him back. Later in the day, the Queens Own Rifles and 1st Hussars capture the village of Le Mesnil-Patry, seven miles forward of Norrey; attacked by 88s, they lose 19 of the Hussar Shermans in fifteen minutes; the Queen's Own Rifles have 87 casualties, the 1st Hussars 60. Later in the day, the SS executes 18 more Canadian POWs at Abbey d'Ardenne, Kurt Meyer's HQ, on his orders.
source: http://www1.sympatico.ca/cgi-bin/on_this_day?mth=Jun&day=09
1863: At the Battle of Brandy Station in Virginia, Union and Confederate cavalries clash in the largest cavalry battle of the Civil War.
1951: After several unsuccessful attacks on French colonial troops, North Vietnam’s General Vo Nguyen Giap orders Viet Minh to withdraw from the Red River Delta.
1972: American advisor John Paul Vann is killed in a helicopter accident in Vietnam. (Editorial Note: One of the very few men who truly understood how to pursue the fight against the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese army, a great loss.)
source: http://www.historynet.com/today_in_history?tihMonth=6&tihDay=9&tdih=GO
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tomtom22
Chief Engineer
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?
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?
tomtom22
Chief Engineer
June 11th
1940: In the West, German forces capture Rheims. The French government of Premier Reynaud leaves Paris for Tours. The RAF carries out raids on Genoa and Turin in Italy. The British cruiser Calypso is sunk by an Italian submarine off Crete.
1941: The Raf begins a series of 20 consecutive raids against targets in the Ruhr, the Rhineland, as well as Hamburg and Bremen.
1942: German U-boats begin laying mines off Boston, Delaware and Chesapeake Bay.
1943: The US 8th Air Force raids the German naval base at Wilhelmshaven (200 B-17s), while the RAF attacks Münster and Düsseldorf.
1944: US forces landed at Utah Beach capture Carentan.
source: http://www.feldgrau.com/june.html
1944: Le-Mesnil-Patry France - D-Day +5; 6th Canadian Armoured Regiment (1st Hussars) and Queens Own try to outflank Carpiquet by moving from Norrey-en-Bessin through Le-Mesnil-Patry towards Cheux, but they meet heavy mortar, machine-gun and 88mm anti-tank gun fire from the 12th Panzer SS, slowing the Sherman tanks; only 2 that enter the town survive; 59 men are killed, 21 wounded; the Queen's Own also loses 55 killed and 44 wounded; in the 6 days of June 6-11, 1017 Canadians are killed in action and 1814 more are wounded.
source: http://www1.sympatico.ca/cgi-bin/on_this_day?mth=Jun&day=11
1853 - Five Navy ships leave Norfolk, VA on 3 year exploring expedition to survey the far Pacific
1927 - USS Memphis arrives at Washington, DC, with Charles Lindbergh and his plane, Spirit of St. Louis, after his non-stop flight across the Atlantic
1944 - U.S. battleships off Normandy provide gunfire support.
1953 - Navy ships evacuate 20,000 Koreans from West Coast Islands to safety south of 17th parallel
source: http://www.history.navy.mil/wars/datesjun.htm
1900: Diamond Hill, South Africa - Members of the 1st Australian Horse and the New South Wales Lancers participate in the battle of Diamond Hill, South Africa.
source: http://www.awm.gov.au/atwar/thismonth/index.asp
1915: British troops take Cameroon in Africa.
1940: The Italian Air Force bombs the British fortress at Malta in the Mediterranean.
1943: The Italian island of Pantelleria surrenders after a heavy air bombardment.
1944: U.S. carrier-based planes attack Japanese airfields on Guam , Rota, Saipan and Tinian islands, preparing for the invasion of Saipan.
source: http://www.historynet.com/tdih0611.htm
1940 - World War II: British forces bomb Genoa and Turin in Italy. First attack of the Italian Air force on the island of Malta.
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_111940: In the West, German forces capture Rheims. The French government of Premier Reynaud leaves Paris for Tours. The RAF carries out raids on Genoa and Turin in Italy. The British cruiser Calypso is sunk by an Italian submarine off Crete.
1941: The Raf begins a series of 20 consecutive raids against targets in the Ruhr, the Rhineland, as well as Hamburg and Bremen.
1942: German U-boats begin laying mines off Boston, Delaware and Chesapeake Bay.
1943: The US 8th Air Force raids the German naval base at Wilhelmshaven (200 B-17s), while the RAF attacks Münster and Düsseldorf.
1944: US forces landed at Utah Beach capture Carentan.
source: http://www.feldgrau.com/june.html
1944: Le-Mesnil-Patry France - D-Day +5; 6th Canadian Armoured Regiment (1st Hussars) and Queens Own try to outflank Carpiquet by moving from Norrey-en-Bessin through Le-Mesnil-Patry towards Cheux, but they meet heavy mortar, machine-gun and 88mm anti-tank gun fire from the 12th Panzer SS, slowing the Sherman tanks; only 2 that enter the town survive; 59 men are killed, 21 wounded; the Queen's Own also loses 55 killed and 44 wounded; in the 6 days of June 6-11, 1017 Canadians are killed in action and 1814 more are wounded.
source: http://www1.sympatico.ca/cgi-bin/on_this_day?mth=Jun&day=11
1853 - Five Navy ships leave Norfolk, VA on 3 year exploring expedition to survey the far Pacific
1927 - USS Memphis arrives at Washington, DC, with Charles Lindbergh and his plane, Spirit of St. Louis, after his non-stop flight across the Atlantic
1944 - U.S. battleships off Normandy provide gunfire support.
1953 - Navy ships evacuate 20,000 Koreans from West Coast Islands to safety south of 17th parallel
source: http://www.history.navy.mil/wars/datesjun.htm
1900: Diamond Hill, South Africa - Members of the 1st Australian Horse and the New South Wales Lancers participate in the battle of Diamond Hill, South Africa.
source: http://www.awm.gov.au/atwar/thismonth/index.asp
1915: British troops take Cameroon in Africa.
1940: The Italian Air Force bombs the British fortress at Malta in the Mediterranean.
1943: The Italian island of Pantelleria surrenders after a heavy air bombardment.
1944: U.S. carrier-based planes attack Japanese airfields on Guam , Rota, Saipan and Tinian islands, preparing for the invasion of Saipan.
source: http://www.historynet.com/tdih0611.htm
1940 - World War II: British forces bomb Genoa and Turin in Italy. First attack of the Italian Air force on the island of Malta.
1918: After several months of an aggressive German offensive on the Western Front during the spring and early summer of 1918, the Allies begin their counterattack, including an assault by four French and two American divisions on German lines near the town of Antheuil-Portes in central France, some 45 miles from Paris.
1970: A force of 4,000 South Vietnamese and 2,000 Cambodian soldiers battle 1,400 communist troops for control of the provincial capital of Kompong Speu, 30 miles southwest of Phnom Penh. At 50 miles inside the border, it was the deepest penetration that South Vietnamese forces had made into Cambodia since the incursion began on April 29. The town was captured by the communists on June 13, but retaken by Allied forces on June 16. South Vietnamese officials reported that 183 enemy soldiers were killed, while 4 of their own died and 22 were wounded during the fighting. Civilian casualties in Kompong Speu were estimated at 40 to 50 killed.
source: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?
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tomtom22
Chief Engineer
June 12th
1940: On orders from General Weygand, C-in-C of the French Army, the French forces opposing the advance of Heeresgruppe A withdraw to the south, offering little resistance. The Soviet Union issues an ultimatum to Lithuania which is soon followed by the occupation of the country by the Red Army.
1941: The German pocket battleship Lützow (formerly Deutschland) is attacked and damaged by RAF aircraft off the southern coast of Norway.
1942: The British convoys Harpoon and Vigorous bound for Malta and Alexandria from Gibraltar are attacked by Axis aircraft which sink 6 merchant ships and 6 escort vessels. The Italian cruiser Trento is sunk by British naval aircraft.
1943: The RAF launches a heavy raid on Bochum in the Ruhr, while the Luftwaffe carries out a night attack against Plymouth.
1944: The five Allied beachheads in Normandy link up together; thus far, 326,000 men and 54,000 vehicles have been landed.
source: http://www.feldgrau.com/june.html
1901: Williamsrust, South Africa - Victorians trapped in a surprise attack at Williamsrust; 18 were killed and 42 wounded in a five-minute-long engagement.
source: http://www.awm.gov.au/atwar/thismonth/index.asp
1653: Battle of the Gabbard – lasted until June 13.
1775: British general Thomas Gage declares martial law in Massachusetts. The British offered a pardon to all colonists who lay down their arms. There would be only two exceptions to the amnesty: Samuel Adams and John Hancock, if captured, were to be hanged.
1864: Battle of Cold Harbor – General Ulysses S. Grant pulls his troops from their positions at Cold Harbor, Virginia and moves south.
1922 - In Windsor Castle, King George V receives the colours of the six Irish regiments that are to be disbanded - the Royal Irish Regiment, the Connaught Rangers, the South Irish Horse, the Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment, the Royal Munster Fusiliers and the Royal Dublin Fusiliers.
1940: 13,000 British and French troops surrender to Field Marshal Erwin Rommel at Saint-Valery-en-Caux.
1999: Operation Joint Guardian begins – NATO-led United Nations peacekeeping force KFor enters the province of Kosovo in Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June 12
1758: Louisbourg Nova Scotia - James Wolfe takes possession of the Light-House Point, destroyed and abandoned by Governor Drucour after the British landing on June 8; at 2 am, Major Scott marches with 500 Light Infantry and Rangers, making a sweep through the woods, in order to take the Light-House battery; Wolfe follows at 5 am, with four companies of Grenadiers, and 1200 men detached from the line; he will secure the area, bring in artillery by sea, and open fire on Louisbourg's Island battery on the night of the 19th.
source: http://www1.sympatico.ca/cgi-bin/on_...mth=Jun&day=12
1944 - Four U.S. Carrier Groups (15 carriers) begin attack on Japanese positions in the Marianas.
1948 - The Women's Armed Forces Integration Act provides for enlistment and appointment of women in the Naval Reserve.
1970 - After earthquake in Peru, USS Guam begins 11 days of relief flights to transport medical teams and supplies, as well as rescue victims.
source: http://www.history.navy.mil/wars/datesjun.htm
1812: Napoleon Bonaparte and his army invade Russia.
1918: The first airplane bombing raid by an American unit occurs in France.
1942: American bombers strike the oil refineries of Ploesti, Rumania for the first time.
source: http://www.historynet.com/today_in_history?tihMonth=6&tihDay=12&tdih=GO
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1940: On orders from General Weygand, C-in-C of the French Army, the French forces opposing the advance of Heeresgruppe A withdraw to the south, offering little resistance. The Soviet Union issues an ultimatum to Lithuania which is soon followed by the occupation of the country by the Red Army.
1941: The German pocket battleship Lützow (formerly Deutschland) is attacked and damaged by RAF aircraft off the southern coast of Norway.
1942: The British convoys Harpoon and Vigorous bound for Malta and Alexandria from Gibraltar are attacked by Axis aircraft which sink 6 merchant ships and 6 escort vessels. The Italian cruiser Trento is sunk by British naval aircraft.
1943: The RAF launches a heavy raid on Bochum in the Ruhr, while the Luftwaffe carries out a night attack against Plymouth.
1944: The five Allied beachheads in Normandy link up together; thus far, 326,000 men and 54,000 vehicles have been landed.
source: http://www.feldgrau.com/june.html
1901: Williamsrust, South Africa - Victorians trapped in a surprise attack at Williamsrust; 18 were killed and 42 wounded in a five-minute-long engagement.
source: http://www.awm.gov.au/atwar/thismonth/index.asp
1653: Battle of the Gabbard – lasted until June 13.
1775: British general Thomas Gage declares martial law in Massachusetts. The British offered a pardon to all colonists who lay down their arms. There would be only two exceptions to the amnesty: Samuel Adams and John Hancock, if captured, were to be hanged.
1864: Battle of Cold Harbor – General Ulysses S. Grant pulls his troops from their positions at Cold Harbor, Virginia and moves south.
1922 - In Windsor Castle, King George V receives the colours of the six Irish regiments that are to be disbanded - the Royal Irish Regiment, the Connaught Rangers, the South Irish Horse, the Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment, the Royal Munster Fusiliers and the Royal Dublin Fusiliers.
1940: 13,000 British and French troops surrender to Field Marshal Erwin Rommel at Saint-Valery-en-Caux.
1999: Operation Joint Guardian begins – NATO-led United Nations peacekeeping force KFor enters the province of Kosovo in Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June 12
1758: Louisbourg Nova Scotia - James Wolfe takes possession of the Light-House Point, destroyed and abandoned by Governor Drucour after the British landing on June 8; at 2 am, Major Scott marches with 500 Light Infantry and Rangers, making a sweep through the woods, in order to take the Light-House battery; Wolfe follows at 5 am, with four companies of Grenadiers, and 1200 men detached from the line; he will secure the area, bring in artillery by sea, and open fire on Louisbourg's Island battery on the night of the 19th.
source: http://www1.sympatico.ca/cgi-bin/on_...mth=Jun&day=12
1944 - Four U.S. Carrier Groups (15 carriers) begin attack on Japanese positions in the Marianas.
1948 - The Women's Armed Forces Integration Act provides for enlistment and appointment of women in the Naval Reserve.
1970 - After earthquake in Peru, USS Guam begins 11 days of relief flights to transport medical teams and supplies, as well as rescue victims.
source: http://www.history.navy.mil/wars/datesjun.htm
1812: Napoleon Bonaparte and his army invade Russia.
1918: The first airplane bombing raid by an American unit occurs in France.
1942: American bombers strike the oil refineries of Ploesti, Rumania for the first time.
source: http://www.historynet.com/today_in_history?tihMonth=6&tihDay=12&tdih=GO
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June 14
1645 Battle of Naseby
1775 Continental Army established
1789 Mutiny on the Bounty: Capt Bligh & 18 men arrive in Timor after sailing 4,000 miles in an open boat, an incredible achievement of seamanship
1800 Battle of Marengo
1807 Battle of Friedland
1861 Confederates evacuate Harper's Ferry, Va in face of advancing Union troops.
1863 Battle of 2nd Winchester, 2nd day. Siege of Port Hudson, La Confederates repell attack by Union troops
1940 German troops occupy Paris
1982 Argintine forces surrender in the Falklands War.
1645 Battle of Naseby
1775 Continental Army established
1789 Mutiny on the Bounty: Capt Bligh & 18 men arrive in Timor after sailing 4,000 miles in an open boat, an incredible achievement of seamanship
1800 Battle of Marengo
1807 Battle of Friedland
1861 Confederates evacuate Harper's Ferry, Va in face of advancing Union troops.
1863 Battle of 2nd Winchester, 2nd day. Siege of Port Hudson, La Confederates repell attack by Union troops
1940 German troops occupy Paris
1982 Argintine forces surrender in the Falklands War.
June 15
923 Battle of Soissons
1184 Battle of Fimreite
1389 Battle of Kosovo
1775 George Washington appointed C-N-C of the Continental Army
1863 Battle of 2nd Winchester ends with capture of the Union garrison. Siege of Vicksburg: Union attack repulsed
1864 Siege of Petersburg, Va starts with a strong Union attack against much weaker CS troops that stalls due to poor planning.
1944 US troops land on Saipan
923 Battle of Soissons
1184 Battle of Fimreite
1389 Battle of Kosovo
1775 George Washington appointed C-N-C of the Continental Army
1863 Battle of 2nd Winchester ends with capture of the Union garrison. Siege of Vicksburg: Union attack repulsed
1864 Siege of Petersburg, Va starts with a strong Union attack against much weaker CS troops that stalls due to poor planning.
1944 US troops land on Saipan
June 16
1487 Battle of Stoke Field
1745 British capture the Louisborg Fortress in Nova Scotia & Cape Breton Island
1746 Battle of Piacenza
1755 Ft. Beausejour, N.S. captured by Britian.
1779 Siege of Gibralter begins
1815 Battles of Ligny & Quatre Bras
1858 Battle of Movar, India Supoy Mutiny
1862 Battle of Secessionville, S.C.
1864 Union troops, bottled up @ Bermuda Hundred, attack CS lines & drive the Confederates out of thier trenches. A counter attack restores the lines.
1487 Battle of Stoke Field
1745 British capture the Louisborg Fortress in Nova Scotia & Cape Breton Island
1746 Battle of Piacenza
1755 Ft. Beausejour, N.S. captured by Britian.
1779 Siege of Gibralter begins
1815 Battles of Ligny & Quatre Bras
1858 Battle of Movar, India Supoy Mutiny
1862 Battle of Secessionville, S.C.
1864 Union troops, bottled up @ Bermuda Hundred, attack CS lines & drive the Confederates out of thier trenches. A counter attack restores the lines.
tomtom22
Chief Engineer
June 16th
1940: In the West, German forces, supported by heavy artillery and Stuka dive bombers, continue their assault on the Maginot Line on a broad front. Units of IXX.Panzerkorps (Guderian) reach Besancon on the Swiss border. The French government of Paul Reynaud resigns and is replaced by one led by Marshal Petain. 57,000 British troops are evacuated from Nantes and St. Nazaire. U-101 (Kptlt. Frauenheim) sinks the British merchant ship Wellington Star in the Bay of Biscay. In the Baltic, the Red Army occupies Latvia and Estonia. Tens of thousands of "hostile' natives and their families are rounded up and deported separated from one another to NKVD prison camps in the Soviet Union.
1941: The US State Department orders the closing by July 10 of all German consular offices and tourist agencies in the United States.
1942: The British light cruiser Hermione is sunk by U-205 (Kptlt. Reschke) South of Crete in the Mediterranean.
1944: Another 244 V-1s are launched against London. In Italy, the British Eighth Army (Alexander) approaches Perugia.
source: http://www.feldgrau.com/june.html
1942: HMAS Nestor sunk - The HMAS Nestor was in the Mediterranean, north of Tobruk, when she was bombed and sunk.
1948: Malayan Emergency declared - Lasting 13 years, involvement in the Malayan Emergency was the longest continuing military commitment in Australia's history. Fifty-one Australian servicemen died in Malaya (although only 15 of these deaths occurred as a result of operations) and 27 were wounded, the majority of whom were in the army.
source: http://www.awm.gov.au/atwar/thismonth/index.asp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14871862: Battle of Secessionville - A Union attempt to capture Charleston, South Carolina, is thwarted when the Confederates turn back an attack at Secessionville, just south of the city on James Island. In November 1861, Union ships captured Port Royal, which lay about halfway between Charleston and Savannah. This gave the Federals an important base from which to mount operations along the southern coast.
1918: Battle of the Piave River rages on the Italian front, marking the last major attack by the Austro-Hungarian army in Italy of World War I.
source: http://www.historychannel.com/tdih/tdih.jsp?
1940: The British submarine Grampus is sunk by four Italian torpedo boats off Syracuse, Sicily. U-101 sinks the British merchant ship Wellington Star in the Bay of Biscay. The Red Army occupies Latvia. Tens of thousands of "hostile' natives and their families are rounded up and deported to NKVD prison camps around the Soviet Union. Estonia is also occupied by the Soviet Union. French front cracking as the Germans break through in Champagne to Dijon, with units of 19th Panzer Korps reaching Besancon on the Swiss border. German forces, supported by heavy artillery and Stuka dive bombers, continue their assault against the Maginot Line on a broad front. The French government of Paul Reynaud resigns and is replaced by one led by Marshal Petain who immediately appoints Weygand as Minister of National Defence. 57,000 British troops are evacuated from Nantes and St. Nazaire.
1941: The British attempt to continue their offensive to relieve Australian held Tobruk, but suffer heavy tank losses to German 88mm Flak guns.
1942: Lieutenant General Ritchie gives General Norrie permission to withdraw XXX Corps past Tobruk and as far as Mersa Matruh to re-equip. General Gott's XIII is ordered to take up defensive positions on the Egyptian frontier. This left the city exposed to another siege, for which its defenses were inadequate, having been allowed to deteriorate during the winter.
1943: 93 out of 94 Japanese planes are destroyed during a massive attack on allied shipping round Guadalcanal.
1944: U.S. Marines repulse the Japanese counter-attacks on Saipan. The real flying bomb offensive on Britain begins as 95 V1's cross the coast before 6am and a total of 244 reaching England that day. The German press calls it the ‘beginning of the day of vengeance’. The Eighth Army captures Foligno and Spoleto, east of Orvieto and approach Perugia.
source: http://www.worldwar-2.net/timelines/timelines-index.htm
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1940: In the West, German forces, supported by heavy artillery and Stuka dive bombers, continue their assault on the Maginot Line on a broad front. Units of IXX.Panzerkorps (Guderian) reach Besancon on the Swiss border. The French government of Paul Reynaud resigns and is replaced by one led by Marshal Petain. 57,000 British troops are evacuated from Nantes and St. Nazaire. U-101 (Kptlt. Frauenheim) sinks the British merchant ship Wellington Star in the Bay of Biscay. In the Baltic, the Red Army occupies Latvia and Estonia. Tens of thousands of "hostile' natives and their families are rounded up and deported separated from one another to NKVD prison camps in the Soviet Union.
1941: The US State Department orders the closing by July 10 of all German consular offices and tourist agencies in the United States.
1942: The British light cruiser Hermione is sunk by U-205 (Kptlt. Reschke) South of Crete in the Mediterranean.
1944: Another 244 V-1s are launched against London. In Italy, the British Eighth Army (Alexander) approaches Perugia.
source: http://www.feldgrau.com/june.html
1942: HMAS Nestor sunk - The HMAS Nestor was in the Mediterranean, north of Tobruk, when she was bombed and sunk.
1948: Malayan Emergency declared - Lasting 13 years, involvement in the Malayan Emergency was the longest continuing military commitment in Australia's history. Fifty-one Australian servicemen died in Malaya (although only 15 of these deaths occurred as a result of operations) and 27 were wounded, the majority of whom were in the army.
source: http://www.awm.gov.au/atwar/thismonth/index.asp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14871862: Battle of Secessionville - A Union attempt to capture Charleston, South Carolina, is thwarted when the Confederates turn back an attack at Secessionville, just south of the city on James Island. In November 1861, Union ships captured Port Royal, which lay about halfway between Charleston and Savannah. This gave the Federals an important base from which to mount operations along the southern coast.
1918: Battle of the Piave River rages on the Italian front, marking the last major attack by the Austro-Hungarian army in Italy of World War I.
source: http://www.historychannel.com/tdih/tdih.jsp?
1940: The British submarine Grampus is sunk by four Italian torpedo boats off Syracuse, Sicily. U-101 sinks the British merchant ship Wellington Star in the Bay of Biscay. The Red Army occupies Latvia. Tens of thousands of "hostile' natives and their families are rounded up and deported to NKVD prison camps around the Soviet Union. Estonia is also occupied by the Soviet Union. French front cracking as the Germans break through in Champagne to Dijon, with units of 19th Panzer Korps reaching Besancon on the Swiss border. German forces, supported by heavy artillery and Stuka dive bombers, continue their assault against the Maginot Line on a broad front. The French government of Paul Reynaud resigns and is replaced by one led by Marshal Petain who immediately appoints Weygand as Minister of National Defence. 57,000 British troops are evacuated from Nantes and St. Nazaire.
1941: The British attempt to continue their offensive to relieve Australian held Tobruk, but suffer heavy tank losses to German 88mm Flak guns.
1942: Lieutenant General Ritchie gives General Norrie permission to withdraw XXX Corps past Tobruk and as far as Mersa Matruh to re-equip. General Gott's XIII is ordered to take up defensive positions on the Egyptian frontier. This left the city exposed to another siege, for which its defenses were inadequate, having been allowed to deteriorate during the winter.
1943: 93 out of 94 Japanese planes are destroyed during a massive attack on allied shipping round Guadalcanal.
1944: U.S. Marines repulse the Japanese counter-attacks on Saipan. The real flying bomb offensive on Britain begins as 95 V1's cross the coast before 6am and a total of 244 reaching England that day. The German press calls it the ‘beginning of the day of vengeance’. The Eighth Army captures Foligno and Spoleto, east of Orvieto and approach Perugia.
source: http://www.worldwar-2.net/timelines/timelines-index.htm
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June 17
1462 Vlad the impaler launches suprise night attack on Ottoman camp.
1497 Battle of Deptford Bridge
1775 Battle of Bunker Hill, Ma.
1862 On the White River in Arkansas USS Mound City's boiler explodes after being hit by a shell. 130 of the 175 man crew are killed or wounded, the most deadly single shot of the War.
1863 Naval Battle near Savannah, Ga Ironclad CSS Atlanta is severly damaged & surrenders after running aground & not being able to train its guns on the US Monitors USS Weehawken & Nahant.
1876 Battle of Rosebud Indians defeat US Cavalry
1877 Battle of White Bird Canyon Indians defeat US Cavalry
1940 British capture Ft. Capuzzo in Libya. Operation Ariel: German airstrike sinks RMS Lancastria, evacuating troops from southern France, with a loss of 5,800.
1462 Vlad the impaler launches suprise night attack on Ottoman camp.
1497 Battle of Deptford Bridge
1775 Battle of Bunker Hill, Ma.
1862 On the White River in Arkansas USS Mound City's boiler explodes after being hit by a shell. 130 of the 175 man crew are killed or wounded, the most deadly single shot of the War.
1863 Naval Battle near Savannah, Ga Ironclad CSS Atlanta is severly damaged & surrenders after running aground & not being able to train its guns on the US Monitors USS Weehawken & Nahant.
1876 Battle of Rosebud Indians defeat US Cavalry
1877 Battle of White Bird Canyon Indians defeat US Cavalry
1940 British capture Ft. Capuzzo in Libya. Operation Ariel: German airstrike sinks RMS Lancastria, evacuating troops from southern France, with a loss of 5,800.
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June 21
524 Battle of Vezerance
1798 Battle of Vinegar Hill
1813 Battle of Vitoria
1824 Egyptians capture Psara
1826 Battle of Vergas
1898 US captures Guam from Spain
1919 German High Seas Fleet scuttles itself @ Scapa Flow
1942 Germans capture Tobruk. Japanese submarine shells Ft. Stevens, Or.
1945 Battle of Okinawa ends
524 Battle of Vezerance
1798 Battle of Vinegar Hill
1813 Battle of Vitoria
1824 Egyptians capture Psara
1826 Battle of Vergas
1898 US captures Guam from Spain
1919 German High Seas Fleet scuttles itself @ Scapa Flow
1942 Germans capture Tobruk. Japanese submarine shells Ft. Stevens, Or.
1945 Battle of Okinawa ends
June 22
217 B.C. Battle of Raphia
168 B.C. Battle of Pydna
1593 Battle of Sisak
1864 Confederate attack stops extension of Union lines @ Petersburg
1893 HMS Camperdown rams & sinks Flagship HMS Victoria, killing 358 men & V. Adm Tryon in the Mediterranean.
1940 France signs armistance with Germany
1944 Soviets begin offensive against German Army Group Centre in Belorussia.
217 B.C. Battle of Raphia
168 B.C. Battle of Pydna
1593 Battle of Sisak
1864 Confederate attack stops extension of Union lines @ Petersburg
1893 HMS Camperdown rams & sinks Flagship HMS Victoria, killing 358 men & V. Adm Tryon in the Mediterranean.
1940 France signs armistance with Germany
1944 Soviets begin offensive against German Army Group Centre in Belorussia.