7 jun 1944 | World War II Database

7 jun 1944

British Air Vice Marshal W. Elliot took over command of the new Balkan Air Force tasked with providing air support to Tito's partisans in Yugoslavia. ww2dbase [AC]
U-23 completed her fifteenth war patrol. ww2dbase [U-23 | CPC]
USS Bailey arrived at Eniwetok for a lay-over on the way to Saipan. ww2dbase [Bailey | DS]

Estados Unidos

The first of the newer, larger, and faster Victory-class ships was laid down at the Kaiser Richmond Shipyard No. 1. The ship would become SS Legion Victory and would serve until 1970. ww2dbase [Victory-class | Kaiser Richmond Shipyards | Richmond, California | DS]

França

British troops captured Bayeux, France. ww2dbase [Normandy Campaign, Phase 1 | Bayeux, Basse-Normandie | TH]
British Flying Officers McIntosh and Shepherd, the rear-gunner and mid-upper gunner respectively in Wing Commander John Grey's Lancaster bomber, combined to shoot down three German night-fighters during the course of a mission to Normandy, France. They would both be awarded the Distinguished Flying Crosses for this almost unique achievement. McIntosh would survive the war with eight confirmed and one probable kills to his credit. ww2dbase [Basse-Normandie | AC]
On the morning after the D-day landings, police raid a brothel that French prostitutes had established in a wrecked landing craft. ww2dbase [AC]

Havaí

USS Pollack arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, ending her tenth war patrol. ww2dbase [Pollack | Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Honolulu, Oahu | CPC]

Ilhas Marianas

Submarine USS Tinosa departed Majuro on her seventh war patrol. ww2dbase [Tinosa | Majuro | DS]

Índia

Anglo-Indian and Japanese troops engaged in a bloody clash at Ninthoukgong, India. ww2dbase [Battle of Imphal-Kohima | Ninthoukgong | CPC]

Índias Orientais Holandesas

Patrol Boat No. 102, Patrol Boat No. 104, destroyer Tsuga, and Submarine Chaser No. 38 departed Bangka, Celebes, Dutch East Indies at 0544 hours to escort convoy H-27 consisted of Keian Maru, Kohoku Maru, Shinno Maru, Shiroganesan Maru, Taiyu Maru, Teiyu Maru, Juzan Maru, and Koshu Maru No. 1. ww2dbase [Stewart | Bangka, Celebes | CPC]

Itália

US troops captured Civitavecchia, Italy. ww2dbase [Advance to the Gothic Line | Civitavecchia, Lazio | TH]

Japão

Landing ship No. 132 was launched at the Sasebo Naval Arsenal in Sasebo, Japan. ww2dbase [Sasebo Naval Arsenal | No. 101/103-class | Sasebo, Nagasaki | CPC]

Oceano Pacífico

USS Whale attacked a Japanese convoy in the Pacific Ocean, damaging two transports, hitting them with 3 of 6 torpedoes fired. ww2dbase [Whale | CPC]
USS Harder was detected by a Japanese aircraft in the Celebes Sea, which called in destroyer Hayanami to attack. Harder fired three torpedoes at Hayanami, two of which hit, sinking her. ww2dbase [Harder | Celebes Sea | CPC]
Destroyer USS Saufley and the convoy bound for Kwajalein, Marshall Islands that she was escorting crossed the 180th meridian and omitted the date 6 Jun 1944 from their logs. ww2dbase [Saufley | DS]

Polônia

The administration of the crematoriums in Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration camp ordered four sieves from the manufacturing firm Deutsche Ausrüstungswerke (DAW) to sift through human ashes. The sieves were to be equipped with an iron frame and the openings of the sieve screens were to be 10 millimeters in size. ww2dbase [Auschwitz Concentration Camp | Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Oswiecim | CPC]

Reino Unido

Henry Arnold arrived in London, England, United Kingdom. ww2dbase [Henry Arnold | London, England | CPC]
HMS Rodney collided with LCT 427 off Portsmouth, England, slicing the LCT in half and killing all 13 British Royal Navy personnel aboard the LCT. ww2dbase [Rodney | Portsmouth, England | CPC, DS]