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 | 1942-06-21 | Fort Lenin falls | The 24th Infantry division attacked the main defensive position on the north side of the bay, the Lenin fort. The extensive defensive position fell having lost three of their four main 76mm guns. | Read about 'Fort Lenin falls' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Fort Lenin falls' | |
 | 1942-06-07 | Sinking of USS Yorktown | Sunk by Japanese Submarine 1-168 following damge inflicted by airstrike during the Battle of Midway | Read about 'Sinking of USS Yorktown ' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Sinking of USS Yorktown ' | |
| 1942-06-07 | Japanese occupy Attu | The 301st Independent Infantry Battalion of the Japanese Northern Army landed on Attu island without opposition. The island remained in Japanese hands until May 1943. | Read about 'Japanese occupy Attu' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Japanese occupy Attu' | |
| 1942-06-06 | Japanese occupy Kiska | The Japanese No. 3 Special Landing Party and 500 marines went ashore at Kiska as a diversionary part of the Japanese plan for the Battle of Midway. | Read about 'Japanese occupy Kiska' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Japanese occupy Kiska' | |
| 1942-06-06 | USS Hammann Sunk | While she was alongside the stricken aircraft carrier Yorktown, proving power, firefighting assistance and other services, Hammann is struck by a torpedo fired at the carrier. With a broken back, she sinks in 4 minutes. | Read about 'USS Hammann Sunk' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'USS Hammann Sunk' | |
| 1942-06-04 | 1942-06-07 | Midway | In what is considered the most important naval battle of the war, only six months after Pearl Harbour, the US Navy soundly defeat the Imperial Japanese navy attack against Midway Atoll. Permanent damage is done to the IJN's striking power. | Read about 'Midway' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Midway' |
| 1942-05-31 | 1942-06-08 | Midget Subs in Sydney | On the 31st of May three Ko-hyoteki class subs entered Sydney Harbour, avoided the partially constructed Sydney Harbour anti-submarine boom net, and attempted to sink Allied warships. On the 8th of June a sub fired shells at the Sydney Harbour Bridge. | Read about 'Midget Subs in Sydney' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Midget Subs in Sydney' |
| 1942-05-30 | Cologne Bombing | The first 1,000 bomber raid by the RAF was codenamed Operation Millennium. 1047 Aircraft were involved in the raid, with 868 of those dropping high explosive and incendiary bombs on the center of the city. | Read about 'Cologne Bombing' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Cologne Bombing' | |
| 1942-05-27 | Operation Anthropoid | The assassination of top German SS leader Reinhard Heydrich, a chief planner of the Final Solution, the Nazi German programme for the genocide of the Jews of Europe. | Read about 'Operation Anthropoid' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Operation Anthropoid' | |
| 1942-05-26 | 1942-06-21 | Gazala | Despite Rommel's resounding tactical defeat of the British 8th Army, Axis armour losses were irreplaceable. Rommel was not able to take advantage of this success. | Read about 'Gazala' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Gazala' |
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