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[...] 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 Troms? 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 1863: Mexico City is captured by French troops. 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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