Minesweeping trawler HMS Myrtle mined and sunk in the Thames Estuary.

FRANCE:

Paris:10 a.m. The Germans enter the city. The Minister of the Interior orders the police to hand over their arms to their superiors. The air of gloom and silence that has descended over the city is only broken by the occasional distant explosion as the French blow up munitions factories. The only resistance has come from some workers near the Porte d’Aubervilliers, who punched passing soldiers, who ignored them. The Germans posted machine-gunners in key positions as they marched through near-empty streets, and a senior officer drove to M Laingeron, the chief of the Paris police to tell him to remain in office until further notice and to be responsible for keeping public order. The swastika now flies from the Eiffel Tower and from German HQ, established in one of the city’s most luxurious hotels, Hôtel Majestic,  29, rue Dumont d'Urville. The French Army is still fighting south of the city.

Guderian swings east to cut off a retreat from the Maginot Line.

GERMANY: OKW issues Führer Directive #15. The enemy's front has collapsed. The Paris area and the fortified triangle behind the Maginot Line are being evacuated, the French Army may retreat as far as the Loire. Our relative strength and the condition of the French Army now make it possible to pursue two objectives at the same time. 

(i) To prevent enemy forces near Paris and the Lower Seine withdrawing to form a new line, and pursue vigorously towards Orleans and the Loire estuary. Important naval bases along the coast will be occupied. 

(ii) To destroy enemy forces facing Army Groups A and C, bringing about the collapse of the Maginot Line. The directions of the main lines of advance should pass through Troyes and Langres, preparations should be made for further moves into the central Loire area. 

(iii) The Luftwaffe will continue to support operations as previously defined, emphasis should be placed on preventing enemy forces withdrawing to the south-west by rail, and the  destruction of ports and shipping on the northern and southern coasts will make any attempted retreat by sea impossible. Anti-aircraft artillery will support advancing troops, in particular the penetration of French fortifications. (Marc Roberts)

POLAND: Auschwitz: The concentration camp open officially with the arrival of 728 Poles from Tarnow.

FINLAND: Two Soviet bombers shoot down the Finnish commercial Ju-52 passenger airliner "Kaleva" which is on its normal route from Tallinn, Estonia to Helsinki. After the aircraft crashes into sea, killing all on board (a Finnish crew of two, two French diplomatic couriers, an American diplomatic courier, two German businessmen, one Finn and a Swede), Soviet submarine Shstsha-301 picks up the diplomatic mail Kaleva is carrying. (Note: the incident takes place when Finland and the Soviet Union are at peace).

This incident is connected to the Soviet takeover of the Baltic states that takes place few days later. The Soviet Union has placed the Baltic States under a secret blockade, and all in- and outgoing traffic has to be stopped at all costs. Captain Pyotr Hohlov, the pilot of the bomber to shoot "Kaleva" down, later becomes a Hero of the Soviet Union.

ITALY: Genoa and Vado, Italy are shelled by French Naval Units.

O class submarine HMS Odin whilst patrolling off the Italian Naval base at Taranto is sighted and attacked with a torpedo by A/S escort Strale. The torpedo is seen to hit. Italian destroyer Baleno also takes part. (Alex Gordon)(108)

FRENCH MOROCCO: Tangiers: Spanish troops occupy the international zone.

EGYPT: Cairo: The British Middle East Air Force in Egypt announced:

‘A single aircraft flew several times over Malta releasing bombs. A number of buildings were damaged, two British soldiers were killed and one wounded. In addition the Italians have made aerial raids on two small towns in the Sudan, inflicting little damage.’

BRITISH SOMALILAND:

Berbera: Reuters News Agency reports:

‘On Friday afternoon the seaport town of Berbera in the Gulf of Aden was bombed by Italian aircraft. Little damage occurred.

FRANCE: A year ago the Germans occupied Paris. A humiliating surrender was only days away. Twelve months later, despite the acquiescence of the pro-Nazi regime in Vichy, there are signs that resistance is beginning to stir in occupied France.

A coal-miners' strike has just ended in the Pas-de-Calais region, which cost the Germans 500,000 tons of coal. 100,000 miners downed tools on 26 May, shouting "No coal for the enemy" and paralysing two entire regions.

This show of strength, along with the student demonstration in Paris in 11 November, is the most spectacular resistance action France has yet seen. But so far the Resistance lacks both finances and organisation within France. Most would-be resistants prefer to work alone or in small groups.

The circles of intellectuals, like the famous group 'Musee de l'Homme' which suffered severe losses in February, prefer to hand out pamphlets or clandestine newspapers. Others have opted for concrete action, like sabotaging some military installations, storing weapons, helping Jewish prisoners to escape and organising uprisings.

Paul Koepfler managed to help 120 people escape to the south on Christmas Eve; soon after he was arrested by the Germans. The risks are extremely high, regardless of the type of resistance chosen - especially since informing on one's neighbours is encouraged by the Vichy rulers.

Many French citizens oppose the enemy by means of individual gestures, like placing flowers at the 'Arc de Triomphe' or tearing up German posters. Despite the arrests, the torture and the deportation awaiting the resistance, the number of people joining the resistance movement continues to grow.

GERMANY: Commander Theodore Eicke of the SS Death's Head division informs his officers of Hitler's "Commissar" order to kill all Communist officials on sight.

U.S.S.R.: Moscow: The foreign minister, Vyacheslav Molotov, says that "only a fool would attack Russia."
Arrests begin after Soviet Union occupied Estonia in July 1940, but they are made quietly. There were about 7,000 people arrested before 14 June, mostly Estonian politicians, high level officers and others whom the Communists considered dangerous. (Rainer Korsen)

MEDITERRANEAN SEA: HMS Ark Royal and HMS Victorious bring more Hurricane fighters to Malta.

LIBYA: Wavell launches Operation Battleaxe, which has as its aim the destruction of Rommel's forces and to achieve a decisive victory in North Africa. If all else failed the attack might at least relieve Tobruk. The attack was to be led by the new commander of 13 Corps. Lt-General Beresford-Pierse, who had replaced the captured General Neame.

To achieve this aim, the British had to capture the old frontier posts at the Halfaya Pass, Fort Capuzzo and Sollum in the first attack. This would be achieved by the Indian 4th Division with the Matilda tanks of the 4th Armoured Brigade in close support. Once they had succeeded in penetrating the enemy line, 7th Armoured would come forward, join with 4th Armoured and break through to Tobruk. This done, 7th Armoured, now reinforced by the Tobruk garrison, would push on and secure a line along the axis between Derna and Mechili. Wavell estimated that Rommel had 13,000 men and 100 tanks close to the wire with another 25,000 men and 200 tanks around Tobruk, 80 miles to the west.

The true figures were that the British had 300 assorted tanks to Rommels 200, of which only about 100 were the gun-armed PzKw IIIs and IVs. But Rommel had prepared a defensive line and moved all his anti-tank forces forward, including 88mm guns, which could easily penetrate the thick armour of the Matildas.

SYRIA: 25 Aust Brigade captures Jezzine after long truck journey from Merdjayoun to the coast. On the eastern axis French in Kiswe continue to resist fiercely. Eight Ju-88s of Italian Air Force attack British warships off Tyre. Tomahawks of 3 Sqn RAAF claim three Ju-88s shot down. (Michael Alexander)

AUSTRALIA: Minesweeper HMAS Lithgow commissioned.

CANADA: Minesweeper HMCS Lachine launched Levis, Province of Quebec.

NEWFOUNDLAND: Depot ship HMS Forth arrived St John's and joined NEF until replaced by HMS Greenwich in September.

The sinking of the American freighter Robin Moor by a German U-boat decided President Roosevelt">Roosevelt to freeze Axis assets in the United States. Naval activity here is hectic. Two destroyers were launched yesterday in Boston. Large cargo ships are being converted into escort carriers capable of launching 15 aircraft, and Congressmen believe that the next step will be to arm merchantmen.

Germany and Italy have taken measures with a view to freezing US assets, said to be worth GBP 105 million in Germany and GBP 36 million in Italy.

The first tests of the launcher, rocket antitank, T1, codenamed "The Whip", this is later known as the bazooka. (Pat Holscher)

Destroyers USS Fitch and Forrest launched.

Destroyers USS Doran and Earle laid down.

This bombardment crushed Sevastopol's own big guns, but the defenders are fighting in the rubble and the Germans are using flamethrowers to burn them out. Fort Stalin fell to the Germans yesterday, but the fight goes on.

NEW ZEALAND: The leading elements of the U.S. First Marine Division arrive in Wellington.

The light cruiser HIJMS Abukuma and four destroyers that departed Kiska two days ago, arrive at Amchitka Island and begin reconnoitring with aircraft and landing parties. A B-17 discovers the operation and flies over the area. The Japanese report back that there are no suitable sites for an airfield.

In the Aleutians, the USAAF's 11th Air Force dispatches four B-17 Fortresses and three B-24 Liberators to bomb shipping in the harbour of Kiska Island from an altitude of 700-feet (213.4 m), the lowest altitude yet. The crews claim two cruisers are hit and one scout seaplane is shot down; two B-17s are heavily damaged but return to base.

A USN PBY Catalina bombs Japanese ships sailing southwest of Kiska just missing the light cruiser HIJMS Tama. The Japanese light cruiser HIJMS Abukuma and four destroyers arrive at Amchitka Island from Attu Island to reconnoitre and search for suitable airfield sites but none are found. The force is spotted by a B-17 and is shadowed.

Japanese bombers attack targets in the Nazan Bay area of Atka Island.

U.S.A.: Washington: Mexico and the Philippines sign treaties agreeing to join the "United Nations".

The U.S. Supreme Court rules that requiring students to salute the American flag is unconstitutional. [See 1943]

Destroyer USS Baldwin launched.

The first U.S. antitank rocket launcher, the M-1, the original "Bazooka", produced in Bridgeport, Connecticut. (Patrick Holscher)

CARIBBEAN SEA: U-161 sinks a freighter east of Nicaragua.

At 0854, U-172 fired one torpedo at the unescorted bulk carrier, Lebore, which proceeded on a nonevasive course at 10.4 knots about 200 (321.9 km) miles north of Cristobal. A lookout spotted the wake 400 feet from the ship, but the helmsman had no time to avoid the torpedo, which struck on the starboard side at the #6 hatch. The explosion caused a hole in the #3 wing tank and jammed the after 4in gun (the ship was also armed with two .50cal and two .30cal guns). The tank rapidly filled with water and caused the ship to list 45° to starboard. The U-boat hit the vessel with two coup de grâce at 0918 and 1039 and finally sunk the now capsized ship with 12 rounds from her deck gun. The seven officers, 32 crewmen, six armed guards and 49 survivors from the Crijnssen, which had been picked up on 11 June after their ship had been sunk by U-504 that day, abandoned ship in three lifeboats and four rafts. The first assistant engineer failed to leave the ship and drowned. 40 survivors were picked up by destroyer USS Tattnall after boats and rafts had been spotted by an aircraft on 16 June, another 25 survivors were picked up from a boat by USS Erie, which also rescued 28 survivors from St Andrews Island, after they landed there in a lifeboat about 18 hours after the attack. All survivors were landed at Cristobal on 17 June. (Dave Shirlaw and Jack McKillop)

UNITED KINGDOM: Admiral Moore takes command of the British Home Fleet.

London: The brilliant bomber leader Wing Commander Leonard Cheshire led a strong force of 315 Lancasters in daylight today to attack the concrete pens at Le Havre which sheltered the German navy's last force of E-boats (motor torpedo boats) in the approaches to the invasion beaches. The pens and the E-boats were literally blown away. The raid, Bomber Command's first major daylight attack since May 1943, was ordered when "Ultra" intelligence revealed German plans to attack Allied ships, shuttling across the Channel. The fast, powerful German boats could have done tremendous damage with their torpedoes and guns among the thin-skinned transports. They showed their deadly potential by breaking into the Utah Beach anchorage on 12 June and sinking the US destroyer USS NELSON. That threat is now no more.

F./L/ J. G. Musgrave shoots down the first V-1 flying bomb over the English Channel tonight.

The USAAF's Eighth Air Force in England flies two missions.

Mission 412: Bad weather again covers all strategic targets in Germany except one in the extreme north; a major effort is directed against tactical objectives, mainly in France; 1,357 of 1,525 bombers dispatched hit the targets listed below; 14 bombers are lost:

1. 502 B-17s are dispatched to hit airfields in France, i.e.,: Le Bourget (134 bomb), Coulommiers (24 bomb), Creil (25 bomb), Bretigny (69 bomb), Melun (50 bomb), Creil (66 bomb) and Etampes (69 bomb); they claim 0-5-1 Luftwaffe aircraft; eleven B-17s are lost.

2. 466 B-24s are dispatched to hit airfields at Chateaudun (103 bomb), Orleans/Bricy (97 bomb), Eindhoven, the Netherlands (63 bomb) and Coxyde, Belgium (seven bomb); and 61 hit the Emmerich, Germany oil refinery, 50 hit Beauvois, 44 hit Domleger, twelve hit targets of opportunity and four hit the Normandy beaches.

3. Of 191 B-24s, seven hit Ham-sur-Somme, 32 hit targets of opportunity, 52 hit Lille/Vendeville, 12 hit Calas Tres, 12 hit Denain Drousey, 39 hit Laon/Athies and 70 hit Chievres; two B-24s are lost. 

4. 351 B-17s are dispatched to hit targets in BELGIUM: 35 bomb St Trond Airfield, 95 hit Florennes Airfield, 52 bomb Le Culot and 61 attack Brussels/Melsbroek; one B-17 is lost.

5. 7 of 15 B-24s hit the Ham-sur-Somme Bridge and five use Azon missiles against targets of opportunity Escort for the bomber missions is provided by 103 P-47 Thunderbolts; two P-47s lost.

Other fighter missions are:

1. 168 of 176 P-47s fly fighter-bomber missions against Luftwaffe HQ at Chantilly, France and Panzer columns; they claim 0-0-1 Luftwaffe aircraft.

2. 234 P-38 Lightnings, 178 P-47s and 171 P-51 Mustangs fly beachhead patrols and sweeps in front of the bomber force; they claim 4-1-7 Luftwaffe aircraft; three P-38s, a P-47 and a P-51 are lost. 

Mission 413: Three B-17s drop leaflets in France during the night. 

Twenty B-24s fly CARPETBAGGER missions during the night.

The USAAF's Ninth Air Force in England dispatches 500+ B-26 Marauders and A-20 Havocs to attack rail communications southwest of Paris and highway communications centers south of the beachhead area; junctions, bridges, marshalling yards, gun emplacements and various defensive strongpoints are included; 15+ fighter groups fly escort and attack numerous ground targets, including rail lines running from southwest of Paris to the Rennes area, and highway traffic on the Cherbourg Peninsula and south of the beachhead area to the Loire River.

RAF Station Millfield, 881 RN Sqn Wildcat VI LCdr Digby Rex Bell COSH DSC RCNVR lost. Crashed while on course Drem, Scotland. UK.

FINLAND: The Red Army breaks through the second Finnish line of defence, VT-line, in the Karelian Isthmus. The Finnish positions between Vammelsuu and Kuuterselkä, held by the Cavalry Brigade and 3rd Division of the IV Corps, are subjected to a massive 90-minute artillery and aerial bombardment, and the Soviet 109th Corps (Lt. Gen. Ivan Alferov) attacks at 8.30 am. The Cavalry Brigade manages to hold its positions, but to the north the 2nd Battalion of the Infantry Regiment 53 (3rd Division) is forced to leave its positions at Kuuterselkä. The Soviet forces advance to southwest, threatening to isolate the Cavalry Brigade, which, lacking AT-weapons, is forced to withdraw.

To contain the situation, Battlegroup Puroma counter-attacks at 10.45 pm. It has been formed out of the Armored Division: the Jäger Brigade minus Jäger Battalion 5, 1st Company of the Assault Gun Battalion, Armored AA-battery and AT-Jäger Battalion minus 6th Company. Col. Puroma's mission is to stop the advancing enemy and recapture lost positions at the VT-line. Battlegroup is supported by three artillery battalions and the Junkers 88 bombers of the Aviation Regiment 4. The artillery preparation is rather inefficient, but the bombers devastate the enemy. Battlegroup Puroma manages to reach Kuuterselkä, destroying several tanks along the way (one of the gunners in the Finnish StuGs was Lance-Corporal Olof Lagus, the 18-year-old son of Maj. Gen. Ruben Lagus, commander of the Armored Division - he scored four kills during the coming battle). There Col. Puroma's battlegroup is locked in battle with the main forces of the Soviet 72nd Division (185th Tank Regiment, 351st Guards Heavy Assault Gun Regiment, 46th AT-Brigade and 119th Separate AT Battalion). The battle rages on into the morning of the 15th of June, by when Finns have lost five of their StuG IIIg's.

More to the north, the 2nd Division of the IV Corps fights a battle of its own around Siiranmäki. At the center is Lt. Col. Adolf Ehrnrooth's Infantry Regiment 7, which has since yesterday repelled several Soviet attacks. The regiment is again today assaulted by strong Soviet forces, and the battle rages on for the whole day. But when the night falls, Lt. Col. Ehrnrooth's men have recaptured all the lost ground and caused severe losses to the enemy. The Battle of Siiranmäki, as it will be known, is one of the first signs that the Soviet offensive is not unstoppable. (At the time of writing Adolf Ehrnrooth, now retired General of Infantry, was still alive and, at the age of 97, the most senior Finnish veteran of the WWII still alive - he was a full colonel at the war's end. He died two years later aged 99.)

ITALY: Advances by the British 8th Army and the US IV Corps continue.

The USAAF's Fifteenth Air Force in Italy dispatches 660+ B-17s and B-24s to attack targets in Czechoslovakia and Hungary; the B-17s attack oil refineries in Budapest, Hungary; the B-24s hit five oil targets, one at Parducice, Czechoslovakia and Petfurdo, Komarom, Osijek and Sisak, Hungary. P-38s, P-47s, and P-51s escort the bombers and P-38s strafe and dive-bomb the airfield at Kecskemet, Hungary.

GREECE: All of Corfu's 1,795 Jews have arrived on the Greek mainland on their way to Auschwitz-Birkenau, where the great majority seem destined to perish in the gas chamber. Members of one of Europe's oldest Jewish communities, they were rounded up on 6 June. Since then they have had neither food nor water. The Germans showed no pity as they unloaded the Jews from launches onto trucks bound for Larissa railway station. There cattle trucks await them for the long journey to Poland.

MARIANAS ISLANDS: US 5th Fleet battleships bombard the Marianias Islands in the Pacific. 

The bombardment groups, Task Groups 52.17 and 52.18, begin bombardment of Japanese positions on Saipan and Tinian in preparation for the invasion of Saipan. Enemy shore batteries return fire and damage two battleships, a heavy and light cruiser, and two destroyers.

JAPAN: US aircraft raid Matsuwa, in the Kuriles.

The Submarine USS Golet (SS-361), CO James S. Clark, is sunk by ASW forces off Northern Honshu All hands are lost. (Joe Sauder)

Two Lockheed PV-1 Venturas are forced to land in the Soviet Union, the first US Naval aircraft to do so. The bombardment force for the invasion of the Mariana Islands, Task Groups 52.17 and 52.18, begin bombarding Saipan and Tinian. Aircraft carriers assigned to Task Force 52, the Marianas Attack Force Carrier Support Group, and Task Group 53.7, the Southern Carrier Support Group, are:

Task Group 52.11

Task Unit 52.11.1

USS Gambier Bay (CVE-73) with Composite Squadron Ten (VC-10)

USS Kitkun Bay (CVE-71) with VC-5

Task Unit 52.11.2

USS Coral Sea (CVE-57) with VC-33

USS Corregidor (CVE-58) with VC-41

Task Group 52.14

USS Fanshaw Bay (CVE-70) with VC-68

USS Kalinin Bay (CVE-68) with VC-3

USS Midway (CVE-63) with VC-65

USS White Plains (CVE-66) with VC-4

Task Group 57.3

USS Chenango (CVE-28) with Escort Carrier Air Group Thirty Five (CVEG-35)

USS Sangamon (CVE-26) with CVEG-37

USS Suwanee (CVE-27) with CVEG-60

Aircraft from fleet, light and escort aircraft carriers continue to hit military targets and also cover minesweeping operations off Saipan Island.

CINCPAC COMMUNIQUÉ NO. 48, Attacks directed against enemy positions in the Southern Marianas continued on June 13 (West Longitude Date).

Battleships, cruisers, and destroyers of the Pacific Fleet bombarded Tinian and Saipan Islands on June 12. Large fires were started at Tanapag Harbor, and in the towns of Garapan and Charan Kanoa. Our ships suffered no damage.

Further air attacks were coordinated with the Naval shelling of Tinian and Saipan.

Pagan island was attacked by carrier aircraft on June 12. Enemy Installations were well worked over and three enemy aircraft were destroyed and one probably destroyed.

In operations on June 11 our forces have reported the following additional losses: Three fighter planes, one dive bomber, and four flight personnel.

More than 60 survivors of an enemy ship bombed and sunk northwest of Saipan on June 11 have been rescued and made prisoners of war.

On June 12 and 13 ships and aircraft of the Pacific Fleet attacked enemy installations in the Kuriles. A fleet task force bombarded Matsuwa Island and aircraft bombed Shimushu and Paramushiru Islands with airfields as their principal targets.

CINCPAC PRESS RELEASE NO. 443, The Commander in Chief, Pacific Fleet, has received a preliminary re-port from Rear Admiral J. F. Shafroth, U. S. Navy, president of a board of inquiry convened to investigate an explosion and fire which occurred on May 21, 1944, among a group of landing craft moored in Pearl Harbor.

The following casualties were caused by the explosion of ammunition being unloaded and the subsequent fire: Dead; Army 8, Navy 9, Marine Corps 10. Missing; Army 53, Navy 21, Coast Guard 26.

Injured; Army 56, Navy 143, Coast Guard 3, Marine Corps 159, civilian 19.

This accident was originally announced in Pacific Fleet and Pacific Ocean Areas Press Release Number 414.

CINCPAC PRESS RELEASE NO. 444, On June 11 an explosion occurred near a magazine maintained by the Naval Ammunition Depot on Oahu Island. Several torpedo warheads being transferred from a truck to a platform were detonated in the explosion. Some damage was caused in the magazine area and minor damage was done to power lines and railroad tracks.

Three men were killed and seven are missing as a result of the accident. The names of casualties are being withheld pending notification to the next of kin. A court of inquiry of which Rear Admiral T. S. Wilkinson, U. S. Navy, is senior member, has been convened to investigate the accident.

CINCPAC PRESS RELEASE NO. 445, Liberator bombers of the Seventh Army Air Force and Liberator search planes of Fleet Air Wing Two, Group One, bombed Truk Atoll during daylight on June 12 (West Longitude Date). Airfields were hit and several fires started.

Approximately 15 enemy fighters attempted to attack our force.

One of their planes was shot down, two probably shot down, and four damaged. Two additional fighters were probably destroyed on the ground. All of our planes returned.

Ponape Island was bombed by Seventh Army Air Force Liberators on June 12. Ventura search planes of Fleet Air Wing Two, Group One, attacked Ocean and Nauru Islands on June 12. Barracks and antiaircraft positions were hit.

Enemy positions in the Marshalls were attacked by Ventura and Catalina search planes of Fleet Air Wing Two, Corsair fighters and Dauntless dive bombers of the Fourth Marine Aircraft Wing, and Navy Hellcat fighters on June 12 and during the night of June 12-13. (Denis Peck)

CANADA: Harbour Craft ordered for RCN: HC 291, HC 2092, HC 293, HC 329, HC 330, HC 331, HC 332, HC 333.

Frigate HMCS Joliette commissioned.

Corvette HMCS Hawkesbury commissioned.

Frigate HMCS Runnymede commissioned.

Corvette HMCS Long Branch departed refit St. John's, to EG C-5.

Corvette HMCS Shawinigan completed foc'sle extension refit in Liverpool, Nova Scotia.

Frigate HMCS Chebogue departed Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.

U.S.A.:

PO/Tel Bernard Alfred Best RCN, CPO James Kay Crotty RCN, C/Sto Samuel Haigh RCN, CPO George Charles Vanderhagen RCN, ERA Douglas Elmer Balcom RCNR awarded DSM

Carpenter John CHRISTIANSON CN Steamships awarded BEM (Civil)

AB(AAII) Morris Kowbel RCN, CPO Robert Webber RCN, CPO Augustus Eastman Lighthall RCNR, CPO Leslie Oliver Porter RCNR, Lt Malcolm Seafield Grant RCNVR, PO David Lloyd Grimes RCNVR awarded Mention in Dispatches

Cruiser HMCS Uganda, a member of Task Force 57, participated in bombardment of Truk

Corvette HMCS Agassiz paid off Sydney, Nova Scotia.

Corvette HMCS Arvida paid off Sorel, Province of Quebec.

Fairmile HMCS ML 056 paid off.