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History on the 1st of June 1942

History
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01 Jun 1942 WW2 French, Dutch, Belgian, Croatian, Slovakian, and Romanian Jews were ordered to wear yellow stars. 
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01 Jun 1942 WW2 Heinrich Himmler was placed in charge of Luftschutz, or Air Raid Protection, in Germany. 
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01 Jun 1942 WW2 Hitler traveled to Poltava to confer with Feldmarschall von Bock on the next offensive. 
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01 Jun 1942 WW2 The Japanese Navy changed its operational code. 
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01 Jun 1942 WW2 German submarine U-404 sank US freighter West Notus with gunfire 400 kilometers east of North Carolina, United States, killing 4 of 40 aboard. Further east in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, U-566 sank British ship Westmoreland; 3 were killed, 65 survived. 
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01 Jun 1942 WW2 German submarine U-107 sank Panamanian ship Bushranger west of Cuba at 0354 hours; 17 were killed, 26 survived. At 1140 hours, U-106 sank US freighter Hampton Roads 150 kilometers west of Havana, Cuba; 7 were killed, 23 survived. At the end of the day at 2351 hours, U-156 sank Brazilian ship Alegrete between Saint Lucia and Saint Vincent in the Antilles islands; all 64 aboard survived. 
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01 Jun 1942 WW2 USS S-28 suffered a fire in her port main motor, but it was extinguished with minor damage. 
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01 Jun 1942 WW2 Mexico declared war on Germany. 
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01 Jun 1942 WW2 The United States Marine Corps began recruiting African-Americans. 
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01 Jun 1942 WW2 Rear Admiral Sadayoshi Yamada asked Vice Admiral Nishizo Tsukahara for the authorization to build an airfield on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. 
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01 Jun 1942 WW2 Two Japanese midget submarines entered Sydney Harbor in Australia in the final hours of the previous day. One of them, M-24, was able to fired two torpedoes at cruiser USS Chicago just after 0000 hours; missing the American cruiser, one of the torpedoes hit the breakwater, sinking nearby barracks ship HMAS Kuttabul (21 were killed, 10 were wounded). M-24 would be able to escape the harbor; her crew abandoned the midget submarine 13 miles north of Sydney but was never seen again. The other midget submarine was depth charged and destroyed by Australian auxiliary patrol boats HMAS Steady Hour, HMAS Sea Mist, and HMAS Yarroma at 0500 hours, killing both men aboard. 
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01 Jun 1942 WW2 956 British bombers (545 Wellington, 127 Halifax, 77 Stirling, 74 Lancaster, 71 Hampden, 33 Manchester, 29 Whitley) attacked Essen, Germany, causing little damage; 31 bombers were lost on this attack. This attack was billed as a 1,000-bomber raid. 
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01 Jun 1942 WW2 Joseph Rochefort's cryptanalytic team in Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii reported signs that their counterparts in Japan were monitoring carrier radio traffic in the Hawaiian Islands; Rochefort warned Nimitz of this fact, but the US carrier groups would not change their behavior. 
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01 Jun 1942 WW2 Axis tanks broke through positions held by British 150th Brigade at Sidi Muftah, killing Brigadier Clive Haydon, which caused 3,000 British troops to surrender. This cut off the last remaining supply line into Bir Hakeim. 
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01 Jun 1942 WW2 Hans-Joachim Marseille shot down the P-40 fighter piloted by British Pilot Officer Collet over Gadd el Ahmar, Libya; it was his 69th kill. 
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01 Jun 1942 WW2 The Treblinka Concentration Camp in Poland began operation. 
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01 Jun 1942 WW2 8 ships of the Allied convoy PQ-16 arrived at Arkhangelsk, Russia. On the same day, German Ju 88 bombers attacked the harbor at Archangelsk, sinking the ship Steel Worker and damaging Soviet submarine ShCh-404. 
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01 Jun 1942 WW2 The keel of carrier Colossus was laid down. 
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01 Jun 1942 WW2 USS Saratoga departed San Diego, California for Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. 
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01 Jun 1942 WW2 USS Whale was commissioned into service with Lieutenant Commander John Azer in command. 
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