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History on the 13th of June 1942

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13 Jun 1942 WW2 USS Saratoga arrived at Pearl Harbor. 
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13 Jun 1942 WW2 USS Hornet arrived at Pearl Harbor. 
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13 Jun 1942 WW2 The United States established the Office of War Information and the Office of Strategic Services. 
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13 Jun 1942 WW2 United States Coast Guard Cutter Thetis attacked German submarine U-157 southwest of Key West, Florida, United States on the surface; after U-157 dove, Thetis dropped depth charge attack, and after several minutes reported debris and oil on floating to the surface from the destroyed U-157. Off Panama, in the Caribbean Sea, U-159 sank US passenger linker Sixaola at 0412 hours; 29 were killed, 201 survived. At 1938 hours, U-159 struck again, sinking US ship Solon; all 53 aboard survived. 
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13 Jun 1942 WW2 Italian submarine Da Vinci sank British collier SS Clan MacQuarrie 650 miles south of Cape Verde Islands; 1 was killed, 89 survived. 
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13 Jun 1942 WW2 German submarine U-83 sank British Q-ship HMS Farouk off Chekka, Syria-Lebanon at 1110 hours; 9 were killed. 
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13 Jun 1942 WW2 Soviet submarine ShCh-405 was lost in the Tiger minefield off Seskar Island, Russia (taken from Finland in 1940) in the Baltic Sea; all 38 aboard were killed. 
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13 Jun 1942 WW2 27 aircraft of Japanese 23rd Air Flotilla from Kendari, Celebes, Dutch East Indies attacked Darwin, Australia. 
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13 Jun 1942 WW2 A Soviet torpedo boat attacked and sank Italian midget submarine CB-5 in the Black Sea off Yalta, Ukraine. 
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13 Jun 1942 WW2 Italian torpedo boat MTSM-210 damaged a Soviet ferry in the Black Sea; German aircraft arrived shortly after to sink the damaged ship. 
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13 Jun 1942 WW2 Tatsuta Maru departed Truk, Caroline Islands. 
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13 Jun 1942 WW2 The first launch of an A4 rocket was achieved at Peenemünde, Germany, but after only 54 seconds the motor cut out and the missile fell into the sea less than a mile from its launch pad. 
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13 Jun 1942 WW2 General Eduard Wagner, Quartermaster General and head of the supply section of the German High Command informed Adolf Hitler that there was a real risk of supplies drying up by mid-September, 1942. Hitler refused to heed the warning which proved to be optimistic - By late July whole units on the Eastern Front were immobilised for days by lack of fuel. 
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13 Jun 1942 WW2 Greek submarines Papanicolis and Triton delivered British Commandos on Crete, Greece; while this new group of arrivals failed to achieve their objectives, a group landed on 10 Jun reached parked German aircraft on this date and destroyed 20 Ju 88 bombers at Heraklion. 
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13 Jun 1942 WW2 USS Enterprise arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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13 Jun 1942 WW2 USS Astoria arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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13 Jun 1942 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Air Group from USS Hornet (Yorktown-class) arrived 
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13 Jun 1942 WW2 Tenryu exited drydock No. 3 at Maizuru Naval Arsenal, Japan. 
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13 Jun 1942 WW2 German 21st Panzer Division, 15th Panzer Division, and 90th Light Division surrounded British troops in the Knightsbridge box near Tobruk, Libya, eventually forcing the British to fall back after sundown. The heavy fighting and the resulting heavy casualties caused the British troops to name this day "Black Saturday". 
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13 Jun 1942 WW2 Hans-Joachim Marseille shot down four P-40 fighters in the El Adem-Gazala area in Libya between 1810 and 1815 hours. Three of his victims were Flight Sergeant Bill Halliday, Flight Sergeant Roy Stone, and Pilot Officer Osborne. 
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13 Jun 1942 WW2 Troops of 16.Regiment of German 22.Luftlande Division attacked Fort Stalin at Sevastopol, Russia at 0300 hours, capturing it by 0530 hours; Germans suffered 32 killed and 126 wounded, and the Soviets 100 killed and 20 captured. In the harbor, German aircraft sank transport Gruzyia, transport TSch-27, patrol boat SKA-092, motor boat SP-40, 5 barges, and a floating crane. 
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13 Jun 1942 WW2 German submarine U-202 landed 4 saboteurs at Amagansett, Long Island, New York, United States in Operation Pastorius. 
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