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• The word RADAR, from Radio Detection and Ranging, was made the official British name for the technology. ww2dbase [TH]
• USS Gar began her eighth war patrol. ww2dbase [Gar | CPC]
• Friedrich-Wilhelm Müller was awarded the German Cross in Gold. ww2dbase [Friedrich-Wilhelm Müller | CPC]

• Naka arrived at Truk, Caroline Islands. ww2dbase [Naka | CPC]

• Barbers Point Naval Air Station: More of Photographic Squadron 3 (VD-3) on board. ww2dbase [Barbers Point Naval Air Station | DS]

• Two men of Italian Air Force Assault Engineer Battalion penetrated into Benina airfield in Libya and destroyed two B-24 and two Wellington aircraft; both men were captured after the mission. ww2dbase [CPC]

• Jürgen Stroop was awarded Iron Cross 1st Class at Lazienki Park, Warsaw, Poland. ww2dbase [Jürgen Stroop | CPC]
• Fritz Ritterbusch was assigned to Majdanek Concentration Camp in occupied Poland. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Majdanek Concentration Camp | CPC]

• Aircraft designer Clarence Johnson met with Lockheed President Robert Gross and chief engineer Hal Hibbard at the company's headquarters in Burbank, California, United States. Johnson informed the two that US Army Air Force representatives from Wright Field had requested Lockheed to design a jet fighter. ww2dbase [P-80 Shooting Star | Burbank Lockheed Aircraft Factory | CPC]

18 Jun 1943 Interactive Map