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• German submarine U-584 delivered four German agents to Jacksonville, Florida. ww2dbase [CPC]
• Tatsuta Maru departed Emidji. ww2dbase [Tatsuta Maru | CPC]
• The US War Department advised the Army to discontinue the recruitment of Nisei, American citizens of Japanese parentage, all of whom were to be re-classified As "IV-C": unacceptable for service because of ancestry. ww2dbase [AC]
• USS Flying Fish damaged a Japanese tanker in the Pacific Ocean with 2 of 7 torpedoes fired. ww2dbase [Flying Fish | CPC]
• 12 German Ju 88 bombers attacked British destroyer HMS Wild Swan and a group of Spanish trawlers 225 miles west of Land's End, England, United Kingdom; HMS Wild Swan shot down 6 aircraft, but sank after colliding with a Spanish trawler during the battle; 31 British sailers were killed in the sinking and 133 survived; 11 Spanish fishermen were killed. US ship Santore struck a mine and sank in the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland, United States; 3 were killed, 43 survived; the mine was laid by German submarine U-701 on 11 Jun 1942. ww2dbase [Second Happy Time | CPC]
• German submarine U-161 stopped Dominican sailing boat Ciudad Trujillo in the Caribbean Sea, capturing her cargo of fruit, and released the boat along with 8 prisoners captured from sailing boat Nueva Altagracia on the previous day. In the Gulf of Mexico, 280 miles south of Galveston, Texas, United States, U-158 sank Panamanian ship San Blas at 0450 hours (30 were killed, 14 survived) and Norwegian tanker Moira at 1300 hours (1 was killed, 18 survived). At 2300 hours, U-129 sank US ship Millinocket 10 miles north of Cuba; 11 were killed, 24 survived. ww2dbase [Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico Campaigns | CPC]
• U-132 left wolfpack Endrass. ww2dbase [U-132 | CPC]

• USS S-28 sighted Kiska, US Territory of Alaska ww2dbase [S-28 | Kiska | CPC]

• Comandante Cappellini sighted three smoke columns at the horizon in the Atlantic Ocean at 2207 hours, but lost contact shortly after. ww2dbase [Comandante Cappellini | CPC]
• Morosini reported her position in the Atlantic Ocean at 0045 hours. ww2dbase [Morosini | CPC]

• The German government confirmed that submarine U-201 had mistakenly damaged neutral Argentinian motor tanker Victoria in the Atlantic Ocean on 18 Apr 1942 and expressed regret. ww2dbase [Second Happy Time | HM]

• HMS Eagle arrived at Gibraltar. ww2dbase [Eagle | CPC]

• Yugure arrived at Yokosuka, Japan. ww2dbase [Yugure | Yokosuka, Kanagawa | CPC]

• Axis troops surrounded Tobruk, Libya; to the east, Axis troops pursued the Allied forces falling back toward Egypt. ww2dbase [Battle of Gazala | CPC]
• In Libya, Hans-Joachim Marseille shot down 3 Hurricane fighters and three P-40 fighters between 1202 and 1212 hours over Gambut, Libya, increasing his score to 101 kills. ww2dbase [Hans-Joachim Marseille | Gambut | CPC]

• Tu Yuntan (Tu Yuen-ten), a Chinese diplomat in the Panama embassy, relieved Shen Jinding (Shen Ching-ting) as the Chinese ambassador to Honduras. He would remain in Panama City and would never set up an embassy in Honduras. ww2dbase [Panama City | CPC]

• Soviet defense lines north of Sevastopol, Russia began to collapse as German troops captured Fort Maxim Gorky, Fort Molotov, Fort Schishkova, Fort Volga, and Fort Siberia. ww2dbase [Battle of Sevastopol | Sevastopol | CPC]

• The US Navy Gulf Sea Frontier (GULFSEAFRON) headquarters was moved from Key West to Miami, both of which were in Florida, United States. ww2dbase [Miami, Florida | CPC]
• Winston Churchill and Alan Brooke arrived in Washington DC, United States to finalise the Anglo-American strategy for 1942-1943. ww2dbase [Second Washington Conference | Washington | AC]

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