On this day during WW2

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On this day:May 31st

1944 Allied breakthrough in Italy

1942 Luftwaffe bombs Canterbury

1941 41 U boats sink this month (325,000 ton)

1941 British troops vacate Crete

1941 German occupiers forbid Jews access to beach and swimming pools

1940 Gen-major Bernard Montgomery leaves Dunkirk

1940 Prime Minister Winston Churchill flies to Paris

[Herroberst]

Hey, What a great replacement for Today in Twisted History, which may pay the bills but scores high on the lame list.

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June 1,

1944 Gen Montgomery/Patton/Bradley/Dempsey/Crerar meet in Portsmouth

1944 Nazi occupiers make it punishable to give aid to allied pilots

1943 Germany shoots down a civilian flight from Lisbon to London, all die

1941 British troops occupy Bagdad, Iraq

1941 Germany bans all Catholic publications

1941 Germany occupies Crete

1940 Coffee and tea rationed in Holland

1940 General Bernard Montgomery returns to London

1940 Nazi occupiers kick Jews out of Dutch air guard

1939 British sub "Thetis" sinks in Liverpool Bay with all 99 aboard

A sad story in this link although war had not been declared.

http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/Qu.../6680/subs.htm


1939 Retired German General Gerd von Runstedt returns to service

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1945
June 1 - Byrnes and Committee advised dropping A-bomb when ready


Fromhttp://history.acusd.edu/gen/WW2timeline/Pacific08.html

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June 1st

1939 British sub "Thetis" sinks in Liverpool Bay with all 99 aboard

A sad story in this link although war had not been declared.

http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/Qu.../6680/subs.htm

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June 1st, 1941 The last British troops are evacuated from the island of Crete which is now completely in German hands.

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June 2nd

1944 Judendurchgangslager Vught disbands

Check out the (3) brutal B*****ds that ran Concentration Camp Vught!

http://www.cympm.com/vught.html

1943 99th Pursuit Squadron flies 1st combat mission, over Italy

1943 German assault on Sebastopol Krim, begins

Check out some pictures:

http://2468collectibles.com/militari...krim/index.htm

1942 Red Sox star Ted Williams enlists as a Navy aviator

1940 Heavy German bombing on Dunkirk beach

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June 6th

1944 D-Day: 150,000 Allied Expeditionary Force lands in Normandy, France
1944 Baseball cancels all games honoring D-Day invasion
1944 Nazi troops executed 96 prisoners by firing squad? Normandy massacres? 7th & 8th June? Anybody confirm the above as separate?
1944 Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. receives congressional medal of honor
1944 U-955, U-970, U-629, U-373 sink in Gulf of Biskaje
1942 1st nylon parachute jump, Hartford Ct-Adeline Gray
1942 Japanese forces retreat, ending Battle of Midway
1942 Japanese troop land on Kiska, Aleutians
1941 1st Navy vessel constructed as mine layer "Terror" launched

Normandy Massacres.

THE NORMANDY MASSACRES (June, 1944)
A sensation was caused in Allied Headquarters when reports came through that a considerable number of Canadian soldiers were shot after being taken prisoner by the 12th. SS Panzer Division ‘Hitler Jugend’. On the morning of June 8, thirty seven Canadians were taken prisoner by the 2nd Battalion of the 26th Panzer Grenadier Regiment. The prisoners were marched across country to the H/Q of the 2nd Battalion. In the village of Le Mesnil-Patty they were then ordered to sit down in a field with their wounded in the center. In a short while a half track arrived with eight or nine SS soldiers brandishing their machine pistols. Advancing in line towards the prisoners they opened fire killing thirty five men. Two of the Canadians ran for their lives and escaped the slaughter but were rounded up by a different German unit to spend the rest of the war in a POW camp. First to make contact with the Canadians was a combat group led by Obersturmbannfuhrer Karl-Heinz Milius and supported by the Prinz Battalion. Near the villages of Authie and Buron, a number of Canadians of the North Nova Scotia Highlanders, were taken prisoner. Numbering around forty, they were individually killed on the march back to the rear. Eight were ordered to remove their helmets and then shot with automatic rifles. Their bodies were dragged out on to the road and left to be run over by trucks and tanks. French civilians pulled the bodies back on to the pavement but were ordered to stop and to drag the bodies back onto the road again.
On the 7th and 8th of June, in the grounds of the Abbaye Ardenne, the headquarters of SS Brigadefuhrer Kurt Meyer’s 25th Panzer Grenadiers, twenty of the Canadians were shot. After being taken prisoner they were locked up in a stable and being called out by name they emerged from the doorway only to be shot in the back of the head. During the afternoon of June 8, twenty six Canadians were shot at the Chateau d’Audrie after being taken prisoner by a Reconnaissance Battalion of the SS Hitler Jugend. Other units of the German forces in France called the Hitler Jugend Division the ‘Murder Division’. After the war, investigations established that separate atrocities were committed in 31 different incidents involving 134 Canadians, 3 British and 1 American. Brought to trial before a Canadian military court at Aurich in Germany on December 28, 1945, Kurt Meyer was sentenced to death but later reprieved and spent six years in a Canadian jail at New Brunswick before being transferred to the prison at Werl in Germany where he was released on parole on September 7, 1954. He died of a heart attack on December 23, 1961, at age 51.

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June 7th

1944 Canadian 50th division occupies Bayeux

1944 Claus von Stauffenberg meets Hitler

1942 Battle of Midway ends: Adm Nimitz wins 1st WW II naval defeat of Japan

1942 German Armies march into Sebastopol

1942 Japanese troops lands on Attu, Aleutian Islands

1940 British/French troops evacuate Narvik

1939 1st king and queen of England to visit U.S., George VI and Elizabeth