FRANCE: VICHY FRANCE: The French Havas News Agency reports:-
The French Admiralty has announced that because of the British fleet’s attack on our naval combat forces which were in the process of disarmament, French naval officers are prohibited from wearing British medals.

NORTH SEA: Whilst surfaced to charge batteries British submarine HM S/M Shark is attacked by German aircraft 30 miles south-west of Stavanger in the Norwegian Sea. She is so badly damaged after some 5 hours of attacks by Do.17, HE.111 and Me. 110 that no she can no longer dive, and has no ammunition left. With 3 crew killed and 18 wounded, the Commander decides to surrender. An Arado seaplane (Ar 196A-3 of Coastal Reconnaissance Group 706 (Kü.Fl.Gr 706)) lands behind the submarine and promptly sinks, the crew coming on board, claiming that the float was damaged by gunfire, although the submarine commander reckoned it was due to making a bad landing! The Germans remained on the bridge as the Shark’s wounded crew are brought up and laid on the casing, whilst the crew below ensure destruction of all vital equipment. On the following morning a Dornier seaplane lands alongside and the commander is taken on board with one of the other officers who is badly wounded. As they fly away, Shark is seen to be down at the stern with about 10 aircraft overhead. Later some trawlers with medical staff on board arrive from Stavanger and take off the wounded.  However, as soon as they try to tow Shark away, she rears up and sinks stern first. (Alex Gordon and Jack McKillop)(108)

GERMANY:

Berlin: Hitler’s return from the Western Front is greeted by vast enthusiastic crowds.

The Nazis have decided that when they have conquered Britain all men aged between 17 and 45 will be deported to Germany. Himmler’s SS has also prepared a Black Book with the names of 2,820 people who are to be rounded up as dangerous subversives. They include Noel Coward, Virginia Woolf, Aldous Huxley, E. M. Forster, J. B. Priestley, H. G. Wells, Bertrand Russell and Beatrice Webb. 

The Irish writer George Bernard Shaw, who Hitler admires greatly, is absent from the list. 

But psychiatrist Sigmund Freud is also included although he died last year, and the Gestapo will have difficulty in tracing "Lady Carter-Bonham", as no such lady exists.

"Lady Carter-Bonham" is probably meant to be Lady Violet Bonham Carter, a daughter of the First World War (and both the last non-coalition Liberal, and first coalition Liberal) Prime Minister, Herbert Asquith. Bonham Carter was a pronounced advocate of the Liberal Party throughout her long life and was one of Winston Churchill's oldest and most enduring friends. She was an early opponent of appeasement and was a member of Churchill's Focus Group.

Lady Violet was created the Baroness of Yarnbury late in her life. Her memoir of Churchill, published shortly after his death, is a remarkably able volume both for its warmth and its depth. (Marc James Small and Matt Clark)

Algeria, Oran: The damaged French capital ship 'Dunkerque' is torpedoed at her moorings by HMS Ark Royal's Swordfish.
(Mark Horan and Richard Pelvin add): Expanding on this action, this was the concluding action of the attack, dubbed Operation "Lever", whose purpose was to guarantee that Dunkerque was out of action for at least a year. Initially, another bombardment was called for by HMS Hood and HMS Valiant but, as Dunkerque was beached in front of the main portions of the port, high civilian casulties would have been expected, something His Majesties Government did not want. Thus, the plan was revised such that a surprise dawn strike by Swordfish TSRs from HMS Ark Royal would be made.

The attack plan called for three waves to attack beginning roughly at dawn. At 0520, in position 36.19N, 02.23W, Ark Royal commenced launching first serial, composed of six Swordfish of 820 Squadron, FAA. This was followed, at 0545, by a second serial of three Swordfish from 810 Squadron, FAA with six Skuas escorts of 800 Squadron, FAA. The third serial followed at 0620, composed of three more Swordfish of 810 Squadron escorted by six Skuas of 803 Squadron, FAA.

The first wave struck in a diving attack at first light from out of the rising sun, obtaining complete surprise. Of the six torpedoes dropped, four hits were claimed; all six aircraft returned safely. The second wave struck at 0647 in the face of heavy AA fire, coming in from over the breakwater. Only two torpedoes were released, but a further hit was claimed that caused a "large explosion". No enemy aircraft were encountered, and all nine aircraft returned safely. No torpedoes hit DUNKERQUE but one cut the patrol vessel TERRE NEUVE in two and she sank immediately. She had been alongside DUNKERQUE taking off crew and loading coffins of men killed in the 3 July attack.

The third wave, although launched much later, followed hot on the tails of the second wave. AA fire was light, and they believed they scored an additional hit. This time several French aircraft came up to engage and the Skuas found themselves tangled up in several dogfights, and although all nine aircraft got back to the task force, one Skua was forced to land in the sea nearby, the crew being rescued by an escorting destroyer, HMS Vidette.

Of the torpedoes that missed, at least two were released so close that close the safeties did not release, and another hit a tug ESTEREL, lying 70 metres from the battle cruiser,  disintegrating it and another went under DUNKERQUE's hull and struck the stern wreckage of TERRE NEUVE exploding forty two 100 kg depth charges. 40 feet of Dunkerque's hull was ripped out in the explosion. While Dunkerque was eventually patched up enough to sail to Toulon, she had, effectively been removed for service for the war which was, after all, the whole goal of the operation.

SUDAN: Gallabat: The Sudan Defence Force at the frontier post is attacked by a greatly superior Italian force, but fights a successful delaying action and inflicts heavy losses on the enemy.

FINLAND: The Finns decide to re-occupy the island of Morgonland and a lone lieutenant, Fred Luther, is landed for a two-day reconnaissance. (Cris Wetton)
While waiting for the main attack by Lt. Gen. Heinrichs's Karelian Army to begin, Col. Heiskanen's 11th Div. (VI Corps) attacks near Vartsile to gain better starting positions for the coming main attack.

GREENLAND: Transports USS Munargo (AP-20) and USAT Cheaeau Thierry arrive at Tungugdliarfik Fjord, Greenland, to begin construction of an air base at Narsarssuak; this was designated Bluie West One (BW-1). Bluie was the code name for Greenland and "W-1" indicated that this was the first base constructed on the west coast of Greenland; bases on the east coast were designated BE-numeric. Also debarking from the freighter SS Siboney were a small cadre of Army Airways Communications System (AACS) personnel. AACS had been tasked with supporting the Air Corps Ferrying Command's flights across the North Atlantic by providing communications services to disseminate weather information and navigational aids. AACS detachments had already established sites at Gander, Newfoundland, in March 1941 and Goose Bay, Labrador; BW-1 went on the air on 21 August. By November 1941, AACS had established stations as far east as Reykjavik, Iceland.

U.S.A.: The New York Yankees baseball team plays a doubleheader against the Philadelphia Athletics before 60,948 fans in Yankee Stadium in New York City. Before the game, a plaque of Lou Gehrig, who died on 2 June, is added to Monument Park in center field. In the first game, Yankee center fielder Joe DiMaggio goes 4-for-5 against A's pitchers Johnny Babich and Bump Hadley. In the second game, DiMaggio goes 2-for-4 against Jack Knott. DiMaggio's hitting streak now stands at 48 consecutive games.

From TIME magazine:

LETTERS

The Modock and the Oozlefinch

Sirs:

When discussing Brigadier General James H. Doolittle [TIME, June 1], you state: "He was an early member of the Quiet Birdmen, the group of flyers who set themselves apart from the kiwi, an almost extinct flightless bird, and from the 'Modock,' legendary aviation term for a 'bird that flies backwards to keep the dust out of its eyes.'"

We believe TIME has erred. On Feb. 20, 1942, long before TIME mentioned "backward" birds, The Range Finder, Camp Callan publication, presented the "Oozlefinch," mascot of the Coast Artillery, which for years has flown backwards to keep the dust out of its eyes; and also because the bird is not interested in where it is going -- it wants to know where in h-- it came from.

Furthermore, we members of the command would challenge any airmen to produce an authentic copy of a "Modock" and would then compare it with the authentic Oozlefinch to prove the erroneous statement of TIME....

Enclosed, please find a copy of Artist John Zane's version of the sacred property of the Coast Artillery, the "Oozlefinch."

CAPTAIN EARL W. PORTER
Camp Callan, Calif.

TIME's response:
Ornithologists insist that the Modock and the Oozlefinch derive from a common ancestor. The Modock's first migration to the U.S. was noted early in the 1920s, when the Quiet Birdmen insisted that they were no relation to
either the Kiwi or the Modock. The Kiwi's natural habitat is New Zealand. --
ED.

(William Rinaman)
 

CANADA: Corvette HMCS Camrose arrived Halifax from builder Sorel, Province of Quebec.
Destroyer HMCS Hamilton (ex HMS Hamilton ex HMS Kalk ex USS Kalk) commissioned.

UNITED KINGDOM:

London: Norman Brook, the wartime deputy Cabinet secretary makes a note (in shorthand) that Churchill said: "Contemplate [that] if Hitler falls into our hands, we shall certainly put him to death. Not a Sovereign who [could] be said to be in hands of Ministers, like Kaiser. This man is the mainspring of evil. Instrument -- electric chair, for gangsters no doubt available on lend-lease." (William Ritchart)

U-502 becomes the first U-boat to be sunk in a night attack by a Leigh Light equipped RAF Wellington. (22)

The RAF invites the US Eighth Air Force to share membership in important RAF operational committees dealing with targets, operational research, interception, and bomber operations. VIII Air Force Service Command sets up headquarters at Bushy Park with Major General Walter H Frank as Commanding General. 6 B-17s arrive in the UK via the North Atlantic ferry route.

GERMANY: U-367 is laid down.

U.S.S.R.: The Germans launch Operation Swamp Flower, a massive sweep of partisan fighters in Dorogobuzh.

Voronezh falls to the German Army Group South after it has been evacuated by Soviet Army forces.

At 1638, the John Witherspoon was torpedoed by U-255 about 20 miles from the shore of Novaya Zemlya. The ship had been in convoy PQ-17 which was dispersed on Admiralty orders in the Barents Sea on 4 Jul 1942. One torpedo struck on the starboard side between the #4 and #5 holds, followed by a second torpedo about one minute later underneath the bridge. At 1655, two coup de grâce were fired, which struck on the port side amidships and broke the ship in two, causing her to sink within minutes. At this time, the eight officers, 31 crewmen and 11 armed guards (the ship was armed with one 4in, four .50cal and two .30cal guns) already abandoned ship in three lifeboats and one raft. One seaman fell overboard and drowned. The U-boat approached the boat of the master and asked for the master and about the cargo, offered food and water, promised to send a message for the survivors, gave directions to the nearest land and then left. On 9 July, most survivors were picked up by corvette HMS La Malouine but 16 crewmembers and three armed guards in another boat had been trapped in the ice for 53 hours and had been unable to get free. The El Capitan picked them up in a heavy fog, after the chief mate spotted the boat after hearing the tone of a bos'n pipe. On 9 July, this ship was bombed by a German aircraft and later sunk by U-251. The survivors from the John Witherspoon had to abandon ship again and were picked up by trawler HMS Lord Austin and taken to Archangel.

MEDITERRANEAN SEA: At 0526, the Hero with three escort vessels, was hit by two torpedoes from U-375. The first torpedo struck in the bow and the second after 30 seconds in the stern. The ship was blown to pieces and sank within 50 seconds. Four Norwegians, two British and 24 Chinese crewmembers died. Only 14 men that had been on deck survived by jumping overboard. They were picked up by an escort vessel and taken to Jaffa two hours later. The master was among the rescued, but died on board the escort ship and was buried the next day at the military cemetery in Ramleh, near Jaffa. The completely destroyed wreck of the Hero removed in March 1944.

CHINA: U.S. Lieutenant General Joseph W. Stilwell, Commanding General American Army Force, China-Burma-India Theatre of Operations and Chief of Staff to Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek, issues a letter of instructions setting up the command structure in the CBI, with "Headquarters, American Army Forces, China. Burma, and India" at Chungking and a branch office at New Delhi, India. A few days later another branch office is established at Kunming.

     The USAAF 10th Air Force in India activates the China Air Task Force (CATF).

AUSTRALIA: Minesweeper HMAS Ararat is laid down.

destroyer HMAS QUIBERON is commissioned.

SOLOMON ISLANDS: The Japanese have started construction of an airfield on Guadalcanal Island, Solomon Islands.

TERRITORY OF ALASKA: ALEUTIAN ISLANDS: US naval forces, under Rear Admiral Robert C. Griffin, bombard Japanese positions on Kiska in the Aleutians. Participating are four cruisers and four destroyers. This attack will continue for the next several days.
This is Task Group 16.7 consisting of the heavy cruisers USS Louisville (CA-28), USS San Francisco (CA-38)) and USS Wichita (CA-45); the light cruiser USS Santa Fe (CL-60); and two destroyers. Combined, they fire 312 rounds of 8-inch (203.2 mm), 256 rounds of 6-inch (152.4 mm) and 1,158 rounds of 5-inch (127.0 mm) shells. Two other destroyers are on anti-submarine patrols and do not take part in the bombardment.

Two B-24s and two P-40s of the Eleventh Air Force on three weather reconnaissance missions report Kiska Island overcast, and take photos of Segula Island. Six B-24s bomb Main Camp on Kiska. Eight B-25s abort a radar run over Kiska Island when one has engine trouble and the others fail to locate.

A USN PV-1 Ventura Pathfinder returning to base in Alaska, sights a submarine which crash-dives immediately.

NORTH ATLANTIC: At 1959, the HYDRAIOS is torpedoed by U-198 and sunk by a coup de grâce at 2017.

U.S.A: Destroyers USS Melvin and Porter laid down.

Frigate USS Eugene launched.

Destroyers USS Hall, Heermann, William D Porter commissioned.

Mission 455: In the morning, missions are flown to France and GERMANY:

1. 800 bombers and 224 fighters are dispatched to bomb 18 V-weapon sites in the Pas de Calais area; 556 B-17 Flying Fortresses and 133 B-24s bomb; escort is provided by 141 P-38 Lightnings and 83 P-51 Mustangs; they claim 4-0-0 Luftwaffe aircraft; a P-38 is lost.

2. 229 B-24s bomb the dock area at Kiel, Germany and one hits a target of opportunity; three B-24s are lost; escort is provided by 168 P-51s one of which is lost.

Mission 456: In the late afternoon 73 B-17s and 148 B-24s strike six V-weapon sites and supply installations, three railroad bridges, a highway bridge, and an airfield in northern France. Escort is provided by 443 P-38s, P-47 Thunderbolts and P-51s; one P-47 is lost. Afterwards a squadron of P-47s dive-bombs three airfields in the Conches area.

212 P-38s and P-47s, fly fighter-bomber missions against rail and road traffic in the Paris area and claim 11-1-2 Luftwaffe aircraft; two P-47s are lost).

Mission 457: Seven B-17s drop leaflets in Belgium and France during the night.

During the night, 20 B-24s fly CARPETBAGGER missions and a C-47 makes the first landing at a secret airstrip in the Ain, France area.

Destroyers HMCS Kootenay and Ottawa along with corvette HMS Statice sank U-678 SW of Brighton 50-32N 00-23W. No survivors from her crew of 52. U-678 was a VIIC Type U-Boat, built by Howaldtswerke Hamburg AG, Hamburg, launched 18 Sep 43, commissioned 25 Oct 43, in service 9 months, with no record of sinking any ships.

Frigate HMS Loch Killisport launched.
Submarine HMS Sleuth launched.
Aircraft carrier HMS Theseus launched.
Minesweeper HMS Moon commissioned.

Troopship HMS EMPIRE HALBERD strikes a mine laid by U-218 on 2 July and is damaged.

GERMANY: Field Marshal Günther Hans von Kluge replaces Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt for the Germans as C-in-C West. He and Rommel told Hitler that the military situation in the west was disastrous. This encounter was followed by a testy telephone conversation between von Rundstedt and Field Marshal Keitel, the chief of the OKW [Armed Forces High Command], who was told an allout attack by four SS Panzer Divisions on the British had collapsed. "What shall we do now?" Keitel asked. "Make peace, you fools," von Rundstedt snapped. 

U-3502 is launched.

AUSTRIA: 42 Liberator bombers of the RAF">RAF's No. 205 Group attack Feuresbrunn Airfield with the loss of 13 aircraft. During the night, two Liberators attack targets of opportunity.  

ITALY: The Polish 3rd Division liberates Osemo, Italy.
The USAAF's Fifteenth Air Force dispatches 530+ B-17s and B-24s to attack the following targets:
   - 125 bomb the oil storage facilities at Porto Marghera.
   - 114 bomb the oil refinery at Trieste.
   - 78 attack Aviano; 45 hit oil storage facilities and 33 bomb the airfield.
   - 55 bomb the railroad bridge at Latisana
   - 53 bomb the marshalling yard at Verona.
   - 53 bomb the steel works at Bergamo.
   - 52 bomb the railroad bridge at Carsarsa.
   - 49 bomb the railroad viaduct at Aviso.
   - 1 bombs the airfield at Vincenza. 

NORWAY: U-737 lands on Bear Island to check on an automatic weather station located there.

FINLAND: Ihantala: Soviet artillery begins a massive barrage on the Finnish positions in morning. Despite this the infantry and tank attack formations are successfully destroyed by Finnish counter-barrage. The Soviet attack commences at 6 pm. It's main aim is again Pyöräkangas, where the defending I/IR 35 is forced back. Col. Y. Hanste alerted his reserves, and orders I/IR 12 to attack from west, Separate Battalion 16 from east and I/IR 35 from north.  Artillery battle goes on for the whole day, until the Soviets are able to mount another attack in evening. They break successfully through Finnish positions and are able to capture some ground around the strategically important Pyöräkangas, but are pushed out by counterattacks by midnight. The Finnish counter-attack, supported by more than 13 artillery battalions, starts at midnight, and the lost positions at Pyöräkangas are recaptured by 3 am. on 7 July.

Melansaari Island, north of Teikari, is evacuated.

U.S.S.R.: The First Byelorussian Front captures Kovel which is 70 miles east of Lublin.

NEW GUINEA: Namber airstrip on Noemfoor, Schouten Islands is captured by US Army troops of the 158th Infantry Regiment, who make an amphibious landing and is almost immediately readied for operations.

MARIANAS ISLANDS, SAIPAN: The US forces on Saipan continue to advance towards the north end of the island. The senior Japanese commanders, Admiral Chichi Nagumo and General Yoshitsugu Saito both commit suicide while their remaining troops plan a final attack.
US Navy carrier based aircraft of Task Groups 58.1 and 58.2 continue attacks on Iwo Jima and Chichi Jima. Surface ships begin a daylong bombardment after which all ships withdraw to the Mariana Islands.

U.S.A.: Washington: Roosevelt meets de Gaulle to discuss further aid to the Free French.

While riding on a bus from Camp Hood, Killeen, Texas, Lieutenant Jackie Robinson of the U.S. Army, refuses to give up his seat to a white man. He is court martialled for refusing the order of a civilian bus driver to move to the back of the bus and is acquitted.

In Hartford, Connecticut, 169 people, including many children, are killed when a fire breaks out in the main tent of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey Circus.

Pearl Harbor, Territory of Hawaii: While passing through en route to Saipan Island, Mariana Islands, the advanced echelon of XXI Bomber Command is canvassed by Nimitz's staff trying to sell them the idea of a very heavy bomber (VHB) mining campaign against Japan's home waters, with the command furnishing the B-29s and crews, CINCPOA the mines and technicians. (Hal Turrel)

Submarine USS HALFBEAK is laid down. Escort carrier USS Roi commissioned.

CANADA: Minesweeper HMCS Oshawa commissioned.
Frigate HMCS Lanark commissioned.
Frigates HMCS Penetang (ex Rouyn) and Carlplace launched Lauzon, Province or Quebec.

CARIBBEAN:  An armed U.S. merchant tanker, en route from Cartagena, Colombia, to New York City, is torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-516 about 152 nm (282 km) northwest of the Dutch island of Aruba; eight of the 72-man crew and Armed Guard perish. 
 

GERMANY: Berlin: The Allied occupation forces hold a victory parade.

CHINA: Major-General Claire L. Chennault resigns his command of the Sino-US Fourteenth Army Air Force in protest at plans to disband it. He is soon granted permission to retire.

Mission 251: 124 B-29s attack the Chiba urban area destroying 0.86 sq miles (2.23 sq km), 43.4% of the city; 1 other B-29 hits an alternate target.

Mission 252: 123 B-29s hit the Akashi urban area destroying 0.81 sq miles (1.7 sq km), 57.0% of the city; 1 other B-29 hits an alternate target.

Mission 253: 133 B-29s attack the Shimizu urban area destroying 0.71 sq miles (1.49 sq km), 50% of the city; 1 B-29 is lost.

Mission 254: 131 B-29s hit the Kofu urban area destroying 1.3 sq miles (2.7 sq km), 65% of the city; 1 other B-29 hits an alternate target.

Mission 255: 59 B-29s drop 500-pound (227 kg) bombs on the Maruzen Oil Refinery at Wakayama; 1 other hits an alternate target.

110 Iwo Jima-based P-51s attack airfields in the Tokyo area (Kumagaya, Yamagata, and Chiba); they claim 1-0-0 aircraft in the air and 6-25 on the ground; 1 P-51 is lost.

U.S.A.: Washington: The US chiefs of staff have today authorized a special operation known as Overcast. Its purpose is to exploit "chosen, rare minds whose continuing intellectual productivity we wish to use" from among German scientists. The Allies have recognized that the Germans are ahead of them in many fields of science. One example is rocketry, and the V-weapon expert Wernher von Braun and his fellow researchers have already been gathered together to prevent them falling into Soviet hands. This concern applies to other scientists as well.

CANADA: Corvettes HMCS Algoma, Summerside and Ville de Quebec paid off Sorel, Province of Quebec.

Destroyer HMCS Hamilton departs Sydney, Nova Scotia, under tow for scrapping Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
 

Managua: Nicaragua is the first nation to ratify the United Nations Charter.