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History on the 9th of June

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09 Jun 1918 WW2 The Germans began a new drive that threatened Paris, France; the position was critical, with the enemy's advance units only thirty-seven miles from the French capital. 
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09 Jun 1919 WW2 USS Arizona departed Izmir, Turkey with United States consul-at-large Leland F. Morris on board. 
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09 Jun 1931 WW2 HMS Hermes participated in the rescue of survivors of HMS Poseidon in the Yellow Sea north of Shandong Province, China; the submarine had collided with Chinese merchant vessel Yuta while on exercise. 
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09 Jun 1932 WW2 German Chancellor Franz von Papen and Adolf Hitler met for the first time. 
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09 Jun 1933 WW2 The Republic of China passed the law for conscription for male citizens between the age of 18 and 45. 
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09 Jun 1934 WW2 Cruiser Köln began gunnery drills with pocket battleship Deutschland. 
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09 Jun 1936 WW2 Destroyer Afridi was laid down at Vickers-Armstrong’s High Walker Yard on the Tyne in England, United Kingdom. 
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09 Jun 1936 WW2 Quincy was commissioned into service. 
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09 Jun 1936 WW2 Ernst Udet was appointed Director of the Technical Department of the German Reichsluftfahrtministerium (RLM) with responsibility for all new Luftwaffe aircraft. His department grew to a complex 26 departments and was riven with petty jealousies and inter-department rivalries. Udet failed to provide a firm leadership and his organisation soon collapsed into chaos, whilst Udet, with no effective deputy and a poor staff seemed more happier when he was out of reach visiting aircraft factories and airfields (usually at the controls of his own bright red Siebel tourer complete with its well stocked bar). 
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09 Jun 1938 WW2 Adolf Hitler received an intelligence report on Czechoslovakian weapons and defensive installations. 
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09 Jun 1938 WW2 The main synagogue in München (Munich) in southern Germany was demolished. 
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09 Jun 1940 WW2 The Norwegian 6th Division, essentially the last Norwegian unit still actively fighting the German invasion, surrendered to the Germans. An armistice was to take effect at midnight. 
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09 Jun 1940 WW2 American cruiser USS Vincennes and destroyers USS Truxton and USS Simpson arrived at Casablanca, French Morocco. They began taking on what would be 200 tons of gold from the French reserves to be brought back to the United States for safekeeping. 
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09 Jun 1940 WW2 British hospital ship Atlantis made rendezvous with battleship HMS Valiant at 1030 hours and reported the sinking of troop transport Orama by German cruiser Admiral Hipper on the previous day. This was the first time the British Admiralty had solid information on the German sortie known as Operation Juno, which had already completed. 
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09 Jun 1940 WW2 German submarine U-46 sank Finnish ship Margareta 350 miles west of Cape Finisterre, Spain at 1300 hours, killing 5. 19 survivors would remain adrift in a lifeboat for four more days before being rescued. 
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09 Jun 1940 WW2 Destroyer USS Dickerson departed Casablanca, French Morocco with American passengers for Lisbon, Portugal, where they would board US passenger liner Washington for Ireland and then the United States. 
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09 Jun 1940 WW2 The German 7th Panzer Division under Rommel pushed the French 10th Army and British 51st Highland Division to the sea at St-Valery-en-Caux, France. To the east, the 14th Panzer Corps under Kleist advanced near Amiens, but his 16th Panzer Corp remained held down at Péronne. Further east, Guderian's tanks attacked toward Reims. French General Weygand announced that the battle was lost and France should attempt to negotiate an armistice. Meanwhile, the French government evacuated Paris, France. 
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09 Jun 1940 WW2 James Lacey was forced to crash land into a swamp in France, which near drowning him. 
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09 Jun 1940 WW2 The Soviet Union issued the order for its military to complete preparations for the invasion of Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia by 12 Jun 1940. 
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09 Jun 1941 WW2 The United Kingdom established a national Fire Service Council. 
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09 Jun 1941 WW2 As the British commando raid to secure crossings on the Litani River in French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon had been delayed by weather, Australian troops crossed the river in canvas boats. The commandos later arrived and joined the Australians in the assault. French destroyers Valmy and Guépard bombarded Allied troops in the Litani River area, but they were driven off by New Zealand cruiser HMNZS Leander and British destroyers HMS Janus, HMS Hotspur, HMS Isis, HMS Jackal (HMS Janus was badly damaged in the engagement). Further off the coast, French submarine Caiman attacked British cruiser HMS Phoebe, but without success. The Allies were able to secure several strongpoints on the opposite shore of the Litani River by the end of the day. 
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09 Jun 1941 WW2 German submarine U-46 sank British ship Phidias in the North Atlantic with the deck gun in the early hours of the day; 8 were killed, 43 survived. 
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09 Jun 1941 WW2 German submarine U-101 sank British ship Trevarrack in the North Atlantic at 1835 hours; 45 survived the attack in 3 lifeboats, but they were never found. 
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09 Jun 1941 WW2 At Berchtesgaden, Germany, Adolf Hitler issued the summons for his top military leaders to gather for the final planning meeting for Operation Barbarossa. 
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09 Jun 1942 WW2 The Chief of Staff of the First Air Fleet Rear Admiral Ryunosuke Kusaka and staff officers Captain Tamotsu Oishi and Commander Minoru Genda arrived aboard Yamato from light cruiser Nagara. 
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09 Jun 1942 WW2 SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich's funeral took place on this date. 
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09 Jun 1942 WW2 USAAF claimed part of the credit for the American victory at Midway despite that no land-based aircraft hit any Japanese warship. 
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09 Jun 1942 WW2 HMS Eagle launched 32 Spitfire fighters for Malta. 
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09 Jun 1942 WW2 German submarine U-124 attacked Allied convoy ONS-100 in the middle of the North Atlantic at 0410 hours, sinking Free French corvette Mimosa with 2 torpedoes; 65 were killed, 4 survived. U-432 attacked Allied convoy BX-23A 100 miles southwest of Pubnico, Nova Scotia, Canada at 1300 hours, damaging British ship Malayan Prince and Norwegian ship Kronprinsen (1 killed); Kronprinsen was beached to prevent sinking. 
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09 Jun 1942 WW2 German submarine U-502 attacked Allied convoy TO-5 35 miles northeast of Cape Blanco, Venezuela, sinking Belgian ship Bruxelles and US tanker Franklin K Lane (4 were killed, 37 survived). 
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09 Jun 1942 WW2 A British Catalina aircraft sank Italian submarine Zaffiro south of Palma, Majorca, Spain, killing all 47 aboard. 
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09 Jun 1942 WW2 United States Navy reorganized the facilities on Kodiak Island, Aleutian Islands into a Naval Operating Base in response to recent Japanese activity in the region. 
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09 Jun 1942 WW2 At Pucheng, Fujian Province, China, US Navy Captain Milton Miles and Chinese Army Dai Li agreed to form a 50,000-strong US Navy-trained Chinese guerrilla force. Having learned that General Dai was present at Pucheng, the Japanese launched four air raids, slightly injuring Miles. 
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09 Jun 1942 WW2 German submarine U-83 sank Palestinian sailing ship Typhoon with her deck gun 4 miles southwest of Sidon, Syria-Lebanon at 1115 hours. 
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09 Jun 1942 WW2 USS Finback arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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09 Jun 1942 WW2 German 15th Panzer Division launched an attack on the Free French troops at Bir Hakeim, Libya at 1300 hours, supported by artillery pieces and dive bombers. The French Legionaires (now reduced to half a cup of water per man per day) were cut off from the rest of the brigade, but by dusk the tenacious defenders were still hanging on desperately to their positions. 
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09 Jun 1942 WW2 All organized resistance against the Japanese invasion ceased in the Philippine Islands. 
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09 Jun 1942 WW2 Failing to break Soviet defensive lines, the German offensive at Sevastopol, Russia that began two days prior was temporarily paused, instead letting aircraft and artillery pieces soften up the defensive positions further. 
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09 Jun 1942 WW2 Naka departed Mako, Pescaore islands. 
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09 Jun 1942 WW2 USS Flying Fish arrived at Midway Atoll for refitting. 
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09 Jun 1943 WW2 Tito was wounded by a German air attack. 
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09 Jun 1943 WW2 Omar Bradley was promoted to the temporary rank of lieutenant general. 
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09 Jun 1943 WW2 Mutsu sank at 0200 hours from damage suffered during the explosion on the previous day. 
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09 Jun 1943 WW2 George Bush was commissioned as an ensign in the US Naval Reserve at Corpus Christi, Texas, United States. 
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09 Jun 1943 WW2 21 B-17 bombers attacked Lakunai, Vunakanau, and Rapopo airfields at Rabaul, New Britain with 73,000 pounds of bombs between 0215 and 0520 hours. A J1N1 nightfighter (pilot Chief Flight Officer Satoru Ono, observer Lieutenant (jg) Kisaku Hamano) damaged two of the US bombers. 
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09 Jun 1943 WW2 USS Whale attacked a Japanese convoy in the Mariana Islands, damaging (possibly sinking) two freighters, hitting them with 5 of 9 torpedoes fired. 
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09 Jun 1943 WW2 USS Snook departed from Midway Atoll for her second war patrol. 
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09 Jun 1944 WW2 US troops captured St. Mére-Eglise, France, cutting major road and rail links to the Cherbourg Peninsula. 
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09 Jun 1944 WW2 In an attempt to push Finland out of the war, Soviet forces launched a major assault against Finnish troops on the Karelian Isthmus. 
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09 Jun 1944 WW2 USS Gar reported damaging a Japanese ship with her deck gun. 
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09 Jun 1944 WW2 The Avro Lincoln bomber took its first flight. Originally known as the Lancaster IV, the Lincoln was produced to meet an Air Ministry requirement for a Lancaster replacement, but in 1943 the requirement was changed to developing a long-range bomber for operations in the Pacific Theatre (Tiger Force). The first Lincoln bombers would reach RAF Squadrons in Aug 1945, just too late to see service in World War II. They were however later used in operations against communist guerrillas in Malaya and against Mau Mau bandits in Kenya. 
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09 Jun 1944 WW2 The Japanese frontal-attack on Gurkha positions on Scraggy Hill was met with heavy losses, particularly to superior British firepower and air support. 
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09 Jun 1944 WW2 Fahnenjunker-Feldwebel Willi Braun and Fahnenjunker-Feldwebel Gerhard Dietrich of the German Kampfgeschwader 55 wing were awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. 
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09 Jun 1944 WW2 Soviet Stavka ordered a general offensive against Finland. 
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09 Jun 1944 WW2 Charles Lindbergh, as an employee of the firm United Aircraft, flew a F4U fighter ostensibly as an observer, accompany other combat aircraft over Rabaul, New Britain. 
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09 Jun 1944 WW2 No. 617 Squadron RAF (The Dambusters) dropped Barnes Wallis' new 12,000-lb "Tallboy" bomb for the first time on the Saumur railway tunnel in central France, which was being used by German reinforcements moving towards Normandie, France. 
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09 Jun 1944 WW2 USS Harder attacked two Japanese destroyers between Tawi-Tawi and Jolo in the Philippine islands with 4 torpedoes, sinking Tanikaze with 2 hits and sinking another with 1 hit; 4 torpedoes were expended in this attack. 
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09 Jun 1944 WW2 Roza Shanina was featured on the front page of the Soviet newspaper Unichtozhim Vraga. 
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09 Jun 1945 WW2 Japanese Prime Minister Kantaro Suzuki announced publicly that Japan would fight on rather than accept unconditional surrender. 
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09 Jun 1945 WW2 The British RAF unveiled the Vampire jet fighter design. 
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09 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Tunny attacked a cargo vessel in the Sea of Japan; the torpedo hit but failed to explode. 
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09 Jun 1945 WW2 277,380 Soviet and Bulgarian personnel were awarded the medal for the capture of Vienna, Ostmark, Germany (occupied Austria). 
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09 Jun 1945 WW2 Captain William Van Hamilton was named the commanding officer of USS Astoria. 
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09 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Wisconsin was designated a training ship for a cruise to Britain, France, and Cuba. 
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09 Jun 1945 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Yulin, Hainan, China and departed on the same day. 
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09 Jun 1945 WW2 Soviet SMERSH agents arrested Russian émigré and liberal political activist Prince Pyotr Dolgorukov in Prague, Czechoslovakia. 
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09 Jun 1945 WW2 Soviet enlisted men were allowed to carry home from Germany whatever they could fit on their persons, the officers on bicycles or motorcycles, and the generals on automobiles. 
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09 Jun 1945 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: A reception was given by the station in honor of Rear Admiral Mason, Commander, Naval Air Bases, Fourteenth Naval District. 
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09 Jun 1945 WW2 Air Group 87 aircraft from USS Ticonderoga struck Okinawa, Japan. 
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09 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Segundo fired three torpedoes at a tug and her tow; all three missed. She then proceeded to sink them with her deck gun. Seeing that the targets fired back, Segundo's officers determined that the tug was likely a Q-ship. 
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09 Jun 1945 WW2 The GUKR SMERSH updated a list of Japanese intelligence personnel and Russian émigré living in northeastern China for arrests when Soviet troops invaded the region. 
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09 Jun 1945 WW2 George Patton and James Doolittle were honored at a parade in Los Angeles, California, United States. 
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09 Jun 1946 WW2 Joseph Stalin issued a secret order to denounce Georgy Zhukov. 
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09 Jun 1947 WW2 Jean de Laborde's death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. 
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09 Jun 1949 WW2 Edmund Herring was made a Knight Commander of the Order of Saint Michael and Saint George. 
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