29 Jun 1941
- The German Army 20.Gebirgsarmee began advancing on Murmansk in northern Russia. ww2dbase [Operation Silver Fox | TH]
- Lord Beaverbrook became the British Minister of Supply. ww2dbase [CPC]
- Former US President Herbert Hoover warned against aiding the Soviet Union. "If we go further and join the war and we win, then we have won for Stalin the grip of communism on Russia.... [I]f we join the war and Stalin wins, we have aided him to impose more communism on Europe and the world." ww2dbase [CPC]
- A haggard and tense Stalin set up a Soviet Defence Committee consisted of Molotov, Voroshilov, Malenkov, Beria, and himself, and then retired to his dacha on the outskirts of Moscow, Russia, staying there until the following day writing a speech to the Soviet people and drafting two important directives on the Soviet war effort. ww2dbase [Joseph Stalin | AC]
- Maggiore Baracca sighted a Portuguese ship in the Atlantic Ocean at 1229 hours. ww2dbase [Maggiore Baracca | CPC]
- Alessandro Malaspina was ordered by her base to patrol a new area in the Atlantic Ocean. ww2dbase [Alessandro Malaspina | CPC]
- Japanese bombers attacked Chongqing, China; among the property damaged were the British Embassy in the city and American gunboat USS Tutuila at Lungmenhao lagoon. ww2dbase [Bombing of Shanghai, Chongqing, and other Cities | Chongqing | CPC]
- Colonel General Vasily Kuznetsov was ordered by Semyon Timoshenko to maintain pressure on the German bridgehead on the Daugava River (Western Dvina) near Daugavpils, Latvia. Kuznetsov would use all his reserves to mount a counterattack that would be repulsed by the Germans. ww2dbase [Operation Barbarossa | Vasily Kuznetsov | Daugavpils | CPC]
- Romanian troops conducted a pogrom against Jews in the town of Jassy, killing 10,000. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Jassy | CPC]
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