23 Jun 1943
Australia


Australia
- After refueling, submarine USS Thresher departed Exmouth Gulf, Australia to continue with her ninth war patrol. ww2dbase [Thresher | Exmouth Gulf | DS]
- US Marine Corps squadron VMSB-132, equipped with SBD dive bombers, was assigned to Henderson Field on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. ww2dbase [Henderson Field | Lunga Point, Guadalcanal | CPC]
- Destroyer Yukikaze departed Truk, Caroline Islands to escort cruiser Nagara to Nauru. ww2dbase [Yukikaze | Truk | CPC]
- USS Harder attacked a Japanese transport south of Japan, hitting her with 1 of 4 torpedoes. ww2dbase [Harder | CPC]
- All Jewish ghettos in the Galicia region of southeastern Poland and Ukraine were liquidated; 430,329 Jews were deported from this region. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | CPC]



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