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History on the 2nd of June

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02 Jun 1912 WW2 In tests completed at College Park, Maryland, United States, Captain Charles Chandler fired a new Lewis machine gun from an aircraft flown by Lieutenant Thomas D. Milling; the results were so encouraging that ten more Lewis guns were requested, but this order could not be met as the US Army Ordnance Department had not then ordered the weapon into production. During World War I the American-designed Lewis became a standard aircraft machine gun. 
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02 Jun 1933 WW2 Frank Hawks flew Gamma 2A "Sky Chief" from Los Angeles, California, United States to New York, New York, United States in 13 hours, 26 minutes and 15 seconds. 
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02 Jun 1937 WW2 A S-43 aircraft operated by Linea Aerea Nacional de Chile disappeared over the Sea of Chile; all 9 aboard were never seen again. 
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02 Jun 1937 WW2 Nationalist Chinese 36th Division captured Kashgar, Xinjiang, China without opposition. 
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02 Jun 1939 WW2 USS Skipjack arrived at San Diego, California, United States. 
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02 Jun 1940 WW2 Due to costly air attacks, British Admiralty decided that evacuation from Dunkirk, France would only be undertaken at night, particularly because nearly all British troops had already left Dunkirk by this time. On this date, 19,561 troops were evacuated from the harbor and 6,695 from the beaches. 
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02 Jun 1940 WW2 The Allies dispatched Polish and French troops to push German troops eastward from Narvik, Norway, while evacuated British troops. Carriers HMS Ark Royal and HMS Glorious provided air cover for the evacuation of 26,000 British troops. 
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02 Jun 1940 WW2 German submarine U-101 sank British ship Polycarp 41 miles south of Lands End in southwestern England at 0300 hours. The entire crew of 43 were rescued by French ship Espiguette. 
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02 Jun 1940 WW2 German submarine U-58 sank British coastal defense vessel HMS Astronomer 20 miles off the northeast coast of Scotland at 0600 hours after a six-hour chase and three torpedoe hits. 4 were killed; 52 civilian crewmen, 1 gunner, and 48 Royal Navy sailors were rescued by anti-submarine trawlers HMS Stoke City and HMS Leicester City. 
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02 Jun 1940 WW2 In Norway, New Zealand Pilot Officer Louis Jacobsen of No. 263 Squadron RAF shot down six enemy bombers while flying a near obsolete Gladiator biplane fighter. Jacobsen himself would be dead in less than a week. 
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02 Jun 1940 WW2 US ship President Roosevelt departed Galway, Ireland with 720 American citizens fleeing the European war zone. 
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02 Jun 1940 WW2 US passenger liner Manhattan departed Genoa, Italy with 1,905 passengers fleeing the European war zone. 
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02 Jun 1941 WW2 Before dawn, German bombers attacked Manchester and Salford in England, United Kingdom in the early hours of the day; 70 were killed and 86 were seriously injured. 
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02 Jun 1941 WW2 In light of the successful campaign at Crete, Greece, Göring boasted that there was no such thing as an unconquerable island, hinting a similar fate for Britain. As for the killings of German paratroopers by civilians at Crete, Göring officially ordered reprisals to be conducted as if the killers were partisan fighters. 
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02 Jun 1941 WW2 RAF bombers conducted a raid in the Ruhr region of Germany. 
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02 Jun 1941 WW2 Vichy French government published anti-Semitic legislation based on German laws; among it was the banning of Jews from holding public office. 
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02 Jun 1941 WW2 German submarine U-147 attacked Allied convoy OB-329 northwest of Ireland, damaging Belgian ship Mokambo (all 47 aboard survived), but was destroyed by depth charges from British destroyer HMS Wanderer and corvette HMS Periwinkle, killing all 26 German sailors aboard. 
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02 Jun 1941 WW2 German submarine U-108 sank British catapult-armed merchant ship Michael E. about 1,050 miles west of Land's End, England, United Kingdom at 2043 hours; 4 were killed, 47 survived. The Hurricane fighter aboard was also lost. 
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02 Jun 1941 WW2 Long Island was commissioned into service. 
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02 Jun 1941 WW2 Vichy French aircraft claimed a British Blenheim aircraft shot down over Syria-Lebanon. 
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02 Jun 1941 WW2 Joseph Rochefort reported to the main US Navy building at Pearl Harbor, Territory of Hawaii for his new duty heading up a cryptanalysis section. 
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02 Jun 1941 WW2 Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini met again at the Brenner Pass on the Italian-Austrian border. 
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02 Jun 1942 WW2 Vichy French government granted Germany the use of the port of Bizerta, Tunisia to bring in food, clothing, and other supplies not directly related to the military. Troops, military equipment, and ammunition were explicitly forbidden. 
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02 Jun 1942 WW2 Remy Van Lierde, flying a Spitfire Mk.Vb fighter, damaged a German Do 217 bomber over Skegness, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom. 
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02 Jun 1942 WW2 Light carrier Hosho launched aircraft to search for light cruiser Sendai and destroyer Isonami which had fallen out of formation due to heavy fog. 
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02 Jun 1942 WW2 German submarine U-159 sank US ship Illinois 450 miles southeast of Bermuda at 0253 hours; 32 were killed, 6 survived. In the same general area at 0255 hours, U-558 sank Dutch ship Triton with the deck gun; 6 were killed, 30 survived. Several hours later, U-553 sank British ship Mattawin off northeastern United States at 0718 hours; all aboard survived. Between 0332 and 0705 hours, U-213 gave chase to Norwegian ship Berganger, which evaded all 5 torpedo attacks, but at 2027 hours she would fall prey to U-578 southeast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, United States; 4 were killed, 43 survived. Finally, 85 miles south of Freetown, British West Africa, Italian submarine Leonardo da Vinci sank Panamanian schooner Reine Marie Stewart. 
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02 Jun 1942 WW2 German submarine U-158 sank US ship Knoxville west of Cuba at 0257 hours; 2 were killed, 55 survived. 
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02 Jun 1942 WW2 British Baltimore aircraft of No. 815 Naval Air Squadron attacked German submarine U-652 12 miles northeast of Bardia, Libya; the crew of U-652 abandoned the submarine after sustaining heavy damage; all 46 aboard were later rescued by U-81. 
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02 Jun 1942 WW2 About 50 German Jews from Berlin arrived at Theresienstadt Concentration Camp in occupied Czechoslovakia. They were the first German Jews to arrive at this camp. 
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02 Jun 1942 WW2 195 British bombers (97 Wellington, 38 Halifax, 27 Lancaster, 21 Stirling, 12 Hampden) attacked Essen, Germany, causig little damage; 14 bombers were lost on this attack. 
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02 Jun 1942 WW2 Nachi arrived at Paramushiro (Paramushir) Kurile Islands. 
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02 Jun 1942 WW2 Troops of German 90th Light Division and Italian Trieste Division mounted a new attack on the French-held fort of Bir Hakeim, Libya; French General Kœnig refused to surrender. 
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02 Jun 1942 WW2 Naka exited the drydock at Keppel Harbor, Singapore. 
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02 Jun 1942 WW2 USS Yorktown made rendezvous with USS Enterprise and USS Hornet 350 miles northeast of Midway. Rear Admiral Fletcher took overall tactical command of this fleet. 
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02 Jun 1942 WW2 USS Enterprise made rendezvous with USS Yorktown and USS Hornet 350 miles northeast of Midway. Rear Admiral Fletcher took overall tactical command of this fleet. 
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02 Jun 1942 WW2 USS Hornet made rendezvous with USS Yorktown and USS Enterprise 350 miles northeast of Midway. Rear Admiral Fletcher took overall tactical command of this fleet. 
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02 Jun 1942 WW2 US Navy deployed 25 submarines west of Midway in an attempt to detect the incoming Japanese fleet, while Midway-based US Army B-17 bombers attacked Japanese transports 600 miles west of the atoll, inflicting no damage. 
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02 Jun 1942 WW2 Australian auxiliary patrol boat HMAS Kuru arrived at Portuguese East Timor from Australia, delivering supplies to the Sparrow Force. 
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02 Jun 1942 WW2 German forces began a 5-day bombardment of Sevastopol, Russia. One the ground, large weapons such as the 600mm Mörser Karl mortars and the 800mm "Gustav" railway gun were used. From the air, hundreds of sorties delivered 500 tons of high explosives, damaging port facilities, fuel tanks, and water pumps at the cost of only one Ju 87 dive bomber. 
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02 Jun 1942 WW2 German bombers attacked Canterbury, England, United Kingdom. 
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02 Jun 1942 WW2 I-168 observed Sand Island, Midway Atoll with her periscope, reporting heavy aircraft activity. 
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02 Jun 1943 WW2 Soviet aircraft attacked Kiev, Ukraine and Roslavl, Russia; their counterparts, Luftwaffe bombers, attacked Kursk, Russia. 
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02 Jun 1943 WW2 USS Finback damaged a Japanese ship east of Philippine Islands, hitting her with 1 of 3 torpedoes fired. 
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02 Jun 1943 WW2 USS Flying Fish departed for her sixth war patrol with a new commanding officer, Captain Frank Watkins. 
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02 Jun 1943 WW2 Five B-17 bombers were launched from Port Moresby, Australian Papua at 2330 hours to attack Rabaul, New Britain. All bombers would abandon their missions due to poor weather. 
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02 Jun 1943 WW2 B-17 bomber "Old 666" conducted a camera mapping mission over the Buka Passage between Buka and Bougainville in the Solomon Islands. 
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02 Jun 1943 WW2 Elements of the Chinese 23rd, 55th, 98th, and 121st Division surrounded the rearguard forces of the Japanese 13th Division in the Hubei-Hunan border region in China, inflicting heavy casualties before the Japanese could break out of the envelopment. 
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02 Jun 1943 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: More of Air Group 9 on board. 
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02 Jun 1943 WW2 USAAF 99th Fighter Squadron made its combat debut with its P-40L fighters, strafing Italian positions on Pantelleria island southwest of Sicily, Italy. 
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02 Jun 1943 WW2 Shokaku arrived at Kure, Japan. 
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02 Jun 1943 WW2 Captain Kanzo Miura was named the commanding officer of Settsu. 
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02 Jun 1943 WW2 Bruce Fraser was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath. 
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02 Jun 1943 WW2 USS Scorpion refueled at Midway Atoll. 
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02 Jun 1944 WW2 The Bulgarian government approached the Western Allies for terms of surrender. 
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02 Jun 1944 WW2 US launched Operation Frantic, its first shuttle bombing operation. 130 15th Air Force B-17 bombers were launched from Tripoli, Libya to bomb Debrecen, Hungary and to land in Ukraine. 
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02 Jun 1944 WW2 USS Hoe arrved at Fremantle, Australia, ending her fourth war patrol. 
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02 Jun 1944 WW2 USS Guitarro sank frigate Awaii off Taiwan in the early morning, hitting her with three of the six torpedoes fired. At the end of the day, she claimed sinking a Japanese destroyer, hitting her with one of the two torpedoes fired. 
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02 Jun 1944 WW2 Shunroku Hata was promoted to the rank of field marshal. 
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02 Jun 1944 WW2 USS Cero arrived at Seeadler Harbor, Manus, Admiralty Islands, ending her fourth war patrol. 
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02 Jun 1944 WW2 7 P-40N fighters of the 7th fighter Squadron of the Chinese-American Composite Wing attacked the Japanese airfield at Zhengzhou, Henan, China. 7 Ki-44 fighters of the Japanese 9th Sentai rose to intercept, shooting down 5. One Ki-44 fighter was shot down over Bawangcheng. 
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02 Jun 1944 WW2 Typhoon fighter-bombers of No. 98 and No. 609 Squadrons RAF attacked and destroyed the enemy radar station at Dieppe/Caudecotein France as an important prelude to the Normandy Invasion; this installation would have given the Germans advance warning of the Allied invasion fleet.  
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02 Jun 1944 WW2 Major General Nobuo Tanaka ordered a final attack at Imphal, India despite overwhelming odds. Near Kohima to the north, Japanese troops evacuated from the village of Naga. 
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02 Jun 1944 WW2 Allied forces overran the German Caesar C Line south of Rome, Italy; Adolf Hitler ordered Albert Kesselring that the Italian capital would be abandoned. 
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02 Jun 1944 WW2 Secret peace talks began between Romania and the Soviet Union in Stockholm, Sweden. 
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02 Jun 1944 WW2 Two midget submarines (X-20 and X-23) set off from England, United Kingdom to sail submerged across the English Channel to the French Normandy coast where they would position themselves ready to guide the invasion fleet with coloured lights as navigation beacons. 
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02 Jun 1944 WW2 USS Escolar was commissioned into service with Commander W. J. Millican in command. 
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02 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Tunny arrived in the Ryukyu Islands, Japan. 
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02 Jun 1945 WW2 American carrier aircraft of Task Force 38 attacked airfields in southern Kyushu, Japan. On the same day, 12 Japanese ships were sunk or damaged by naval mines in Japanese waters. 
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02 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Wake Island received supplies at Kaika Harbor, Kerama Retto, Ryukyu Islands, Japan. 
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02 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Ray attacked a Japanese transport west of Japan; all 5 torpedoes missed. 
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02 Jun 1945 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru departed Jakarta, Java. 
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02 Jun 1945 WW2 Air Group 87 aircraft from USS Ticonderoga struck airfields on Kyushu, Japan in an attempt to stop special attack aircraft from taking off. 
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02 Jun 1945 WW2 I-400 arrived at Nanao Bay, Japan. 
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02 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Spot departed Saipan, Mariana Islands for her third war patrol. 
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02 Jun 1945 WW2 Two B-25J bombers of 822nd Bomb Squadron, USAAF 38th Bombardment Group attacked the sugar refinery in Suantau, Kagi (now Suantou, Chiayi), Taiwan. 
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02 Jun 1946 WW2 Louis Slotin was buried in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. 
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02 Jun 1946 WW2 Captain C. S. Williams stepped down as the commanding officer of USS ABSD-1. 
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02 Jun 1947 WW2 Stepan Petrichenko, a former spy for the Soviet Union in Finland but had fell out of favor with the leadership, died while in captivity at the Solikamsk Labor Camp in Solikamsk, Perm Oblast, Russia. 
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