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• Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom presented the Victoria Cross award for the first time at Hyde Park, London, England, United Kingdom. ww2dbase [London, England | CPC]

• Lewis Puller was born in West Point, Virginia, United States. ww2dbase [Lewis Puller | West Point, Virginia | DS]

26 Jun 1898 Interactive Map

• Ioseb Jughashvili led a daring heist of a state bank caravan in Tiflis, Georgia Governorate, Russia, successfully robbing the government a very large sum of money to fund revolutionary activities. 40 people, including many bystanders, were killed in the attempt due to the use of explosives. ww2dbase [Joseph Stalin | Tiflis | CPC]

• Henry Arnold crashed the US Army's first front-mounted propeller-and-engine aircraft on takeoff into the bay at Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States. ww2dbase [Henry Arnold | Plymouth, Massachusetts | CPC]

26 Jun 1912 Interactive Map

• The US 1st Division (soon to be known as the "Big Red One") consisting of the 16th, 18th, 26th and 28th Infantry regiments arrived in France. ww2dbase [AC]
• Furious was commissioned into service. ww2dbase [Furious | CPC]

• Douglas MacArthur was promoted to the temporary rank of brigadier general, making him the youngest general in the American Expeditionary Force. ww2dbase [Douglas MacArthur | CPC]

• Kliment Voroshilov was awarded the Order of the Red Banner for the first time. ww2dbase [Kliment Voroshilov | CPC]

• Alexandros Sakellariou's 2 Dec 1920 promotion to commander was retroactively dated to this date. ww2dbase [Alexandros Sakellariou | CPC]

• Violette Bushell was born in Paris, France. ww2dbase [Violette Szabo | Paris | AC]

• Tenryu departed Inchon, Korea for Lushunkou, northeastern China. ww2dbase [Tenryu | Inchon | CPC]

• Franklin Roosevelt gave a speech in support of Governor Alfred E. Smith during the Democratic Party National Convention in New York, New York, United States. ww2dbase [Franklin Roosevelt | New York | CPC]

• King Rama VII of Siam met the leaders of the People's Party, thus officially marking the end of absolute monarchy in Siam. ww2dbase [Bangkok | CPC]

• The MB.200 bomber took its first flight. ww2dbase [MB.200 | CPC]

• SS-Gruppenführer Theodor Eicke was named the commandant of Dachau Concentration Camp in southern Germany, replacing Hilmar Wäckerle. ww2dbase [Dachau Concentration Camp | Dachau, München-Oberbayern | CPC]
• Gorch Fock was commissioned into service. ww2dbase [Gorch Fock | CPC]

• I-68 was launched at Kure Naval Arsenal, Kure, Japan. ww2dbase [Kure Naval Arsenal | I-68/I-168 | Kure, Hiroshima | CPC]

• The keel of HMS Amphion was laid down at the Royal Dockyard in Portsmouth, England, United Kingdom. ww2dbase [Perth | Portsmouth, England | CPC]

26 Jun 1933 Interactive Map

• The keel of destroyer Cummings was laid down at the United Shipyards facility in Staten Island, New York, United States. ww2dbase [Cummings | Staten Island, New York | CPC]

• The German military began to exclude Jews from service. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | CPC]

• Piloted by Ewald Rohlfs, the Focke-Wulf Fw 61 V1 twin-rotor helicopter made its first flight of about half a minute duration. The Fw 61 was the world's first completely successful helicopter design. ww2dbase [AC]

• The Soviet Council on Labor and Defense presented a ten-year plan to the Politburo for a 1,360,000-ton navy. ww2dbase [Moscow | CPC]

• Moscow City Party Committee secretary Semyon Korytny was arrested for having family ties to Joseph Stalin's perceived political enemy Iona Yakir. ww2dbase [Joseph Stalin | CPC]

• Japanese Special Naval Landing Force troops landed behind Chinese lines at Madang, Jiangxi Province, China and captured the town. ww2dbase [Battle of Wuhan | Madang, Jiangxi | CPC]

• German Gestapo ordered all Czechs who were deemed unwilling to work, politically active, or deemed to have anti-German beliefs were to be placed in concentration camps. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | CPC]

• The British Royal Navy and the British Foreign Office reported that Britain could only break the Japanese blockade on the British concession in Tianjin, China by deploying warships to the area. However, given the current tensions with Germany, such a deployment would not be advisable. ww2dbase [Tianjin Incident | London, England | CPC]

• General de Gaulle created the French Volunteer Legion in United Kingdom. ww2dbase [Charles de Gaulle | TH]
• The United Kingdom extended the blockade to include the all of France. ww2dbase [TH]
• Norwegian merchant ship Crux was sunk 300 miles west of Cape St. Vincent, Portugal at 0228 hours by a German submarine; the crew of 30 took to lifeboats and would be rescued on the following day. ww2dbase [CPC]
• German submarine U-29 stopped Greek ship Dimitris with a shot across her bow off Cape Finisterre, Spain at 1530 hours. After the crew abandoned ship, the Greek ship was sunk by gunfire. ww2dbase [CPC]
• Soviet Union presented an ultimatum demanding territory in Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina from Romania. Adolf Hitler suggested the Romanians government to give in and satisfy the Soviet demands as Hitler was fearful that Romanian resistance might lead to a Soviet occupation of the entire Romania, which would threaten the oil and fodder that the German military was dependent upon. ww2dbase [Soviet Demands on Romania and the Second Vienna Arbitration | CPC]
• Corvette Trillium was launched. ww2dbase [Trillium | CPC]
• The French Foreign Minister of the Bordeaux Government announced that the French Ambassador in London, M. Corbin, had resigned. ww2dbase [AC]
• Wolfgang Falck was officially named the commanding officer of the German nightfighters, Nachtjagdfliegerdienst. ww2dbase [Wolfgang Falck | CPC]
• RMS Queen Mary, with 5,000 British troops aboard, set sail for the Middle East. ww2dbase [Queen Mary | CPC]

• Comandante Cappellini sighted British merchant ship Cydonia in the Mediterranean Sea just off of the coast of Spain at 2030 hours. At 2106 hours, she fired one torpedo at a distance of 700 metres, which missed. One minute later, she submerged to avoid colliding with a Spanish vessel. She surfaced at 2124 hours, and the target had already disappeared. ww2dbase [Comandante Cappellini | CPC]

• The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet in Moscow, Russia called for a 7-day work week and banned the quitting of jobs without official authorization. Also, being late to work for more than 20 minutes was now a criminal offense punishable by prison terms of two to six months. ww2dbase [CPC]

• After sundown, German aircraft bombed the steelworks at Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom. ww2dbase [Battle of Britain | Scunthorpe, England | AC]

• Packard Motor Car Company of Detroit, Michigan, United States received the license from Rolls-Royce to build Merlin engines for the P-51 Mustang fighters, with an order at the size of US$130,000,000 being placed. The first Packard-built Merlin engine, designated V-1650-1, would be ready in Aug 1941. ww2dbase [P-51 Mustang | Detroit, Michigan | CPC, DS]

26 Jun 1940 Interactive Map

• James Johnson shot down a German Bf 109 fighter. ww2dbase [James Johnson | CPC]

• Maggiore Baracca sighted a vessel in the Atlantic Ocean at 1000 hours. She pursued the target for two hours but would fail to catch up. ww2dbase [Maggiore Baracca | CPC]

• Finland issued declaration of war against the Soviet Union. ww2dbase [Operation Silver Fox | TH]

• Tomahawk fighters of No. 3 Squadron RAAF destroyed 5 French D.520 fighters and damaged a further six on the ground at Homs Airfield in Syria. ww2dbase [Campaigns in the Middle East | Syria | CPC]

• Adolf Hitler officially named Hermann Göring his successor. ww2dbase [Hermann Göring | TH]
• U-576 was commissioned into service under the command of Kapitänleutnant Hans-Dieter Heinicke. She was assigned to the 7th Submarine Flotilla. ww2dbase [U-576 | CPC]

• German 56th Panzer Corps reached Daugava River (Western Dvina); 8th Panzer Division and 3rd Motorized Division established bridgehead near Daugavpils, Latvia. ww2dbase [Operation Barbarossa | Daugavpils | CPC]

• German Panzer units closed the Bialystok pocket in Poland. ww2dbase [Operation Barbarossa | Bialystok | TH]

• The Leningrad-class destroyer leader Moskva was lost during Soviet Black Sea Fleet commander Vice-Admiral Filipp Oktyabrsky's raid on the Romanian port of Constanta. Damaged by return fire from Romanian destroyers Regina Maria and Marasti and from German coastal batteries, she attempted to withdraw but sank after running into a Romanian minefield. The mines were probably laid by the Romanians about 7 to 10 days prior, and the Soviet captains were not given precise charts of the minefields. 7 officers and 62 men were rescued and interned by the Romanians. ww2dbase [Constanta | AC]

• Aircraft of the German Luftwaffe began to bomb Leningrad, Russia. ww2dbase [Operation Barbarossa | Leningrad | TH, CPC]
• In the Soviet capital of Moscow, Joseph Stalin visited the General Staff headquarters twice, voicing frustration at the heavy losses that the Red Army was suffering against the invading German forces. ww2dbase [Joseph Stalin | Moscow | TH, CPC]

• Spain officially began to organize a unit of volunteers to fight in Russia on the side of the Axis. ww2dbase [CPC]

• The mixed Marine-Army I Corps (Provisional), which was attached to the US Navy Atlantic Fleet, was redesignated Task Force 18 of the Atlantic Fleet. ww2dbase [CPC]
• Vernon Baker enlisted in the United States Army. ww2dbase [CPC]

26 Jun 1941 Interactive Map

• German troops crossed the Oskel River to take Kupyansk in Ukraine, which was to be used as a jump-off point for their summer offensive. ww2dbase [TH]
• Italian troops of Brescia Division and Trento Division reached Mersa Matruh, Egypt in the afternoon, engaging in fighting against the Indian 10th Infantry Division. To the south, German tanks and infantry moved toward Minqar Qaim. ww2dbase [Battle of Mersa Matruh | CPC]
• The Grumman XF6F-3 Hellcat prototype made its maiden flight. It went on to be, arguably, the most significant Allied carrier fighter of the war. ww2dbase [F6F Hellcat | AC]
• US Marine Corps Major General Alexander Vandegrift received word that Guadalcanal-Tulagi landings in the Solomon Islands were being planned. ww2dbase [Guadalcanal Campaign | CPC]
• Aleksandr Vasilevsky was named the Chief of the General Staff of the Soviet armed forces. ww2dbase [Aleksandr Vasilevsky | CPC]
• Vichy French ship Quand Meme struck a mine and sank in the Bay of Biscay; the mine was deployed by Free French submarine Rubis on 5 Jun 1942 ww2dbase [CPC]
• German submarine U-203 sank British ship Putney Hill with a torpedo and her deck gun 450 miles northeast of Puerto Rico at 0544 hours; 3 were killed, 35 survived. US ship Manuela, damaged by German submarine U-153 on the previous day, foundered and sank in the morning while under tow by US Coast Guard ship CG-252. At 0913 hours, U-107 damaged Dutch ship Jagersfontein with a torpedo 500 miles west of Bermuda; Jagersfontein would sink at 1215 hours; all 220 aboard survived. At 2317 hours, U-203 struck again, sinking Brazillian ship Pedrinhas with a torpedo and her deck gun 300 miles northeast of Puerto Rico; all 48 aboard survived. ww2dbase [Second Happy Time | CPC]
• Returning from a raid an Australian Catalina flying-boat of No. 11 Squadron RAAF was shot at by a US Navy Wildcat fighter whilst approaching Havannah Harbour at Efate, Espiritu Santo. The American pilot had been alerted to lookout for an unidentified aircraft and had mistaken the red centres of the RAAF roundels for the markings on Japanese aircraft. Fortunately the Catalina aircraft was not badly damaged in the attack and alighted safely. This incident led to the RAAF replainting their roundels with white centres on all aircraft. ww2dbase [AC]
• After repairs at HM Dockyard Chatham, Sheerness, England, United Kingdom, HMS Cumberland became part of Home Fleet cover with HM Battleship Duke of York, US Navy Battleship USS Washington, HM Cruiser Negeria and screen of 14 RN/USN destroyers for passage of Russian Convoy PQ17. ww2dbase [Washington | Cumberland | Duke of York | DS]

• Morosini, in the Altantic Ocean at 0003 hours, received word from fellow Italian submarine Giuseppe Finzi that Finzi had 313 tons of fuel, and would meet with Morosini at sea on 29 Jun 1942; the actual meeting would be delayed until 1 Jul 1942. ww2dbase [Morosini | Giuseppe Finzi | CPC]

• Submarine USS Spearfish departed Fremantle, Australia, on her fourth war patrol. ww2dbase [Spearfish | Fremantle | DS]

• Italian midget submarine CB-4 recorded attacking and sinking Soviet submarine ShCh-207 in the Black Sea off Yalta, Ukraine; Soviet records revealed that the only submarine lost in the region that day was ShCh-203. ww2dbase [CPC]

• USS S-44 reported extremely poor weather north of Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. ww2dbase [S-44 | Savo Sound | CPC]

• After a yard refit and a routine change of command, submarine USS Thresher departed Pearl Harbor on her fourth war patrol. Lieutenant Commander William Millican relieved Commander William Anderson. ww2dbase [Thresher | Pearl Harbor, Oahu | DS]

• The Italians were able to step up their air attacks on Malta by transferring aircraft from Libya to Sicily, Italy. ww2dbase [Malta Campaign | Sicilia | TH]

• Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru departed Kure, Japan for her fourth voyage for the Japanese Navy. ww2dbase [Hikawa Maru | Kure, Hiroshima | CPC]
• I-168 arrived at Sasebo, Japan for repairs. ww2dbase [Sasebo Naval Arsenal | I-68/I-168 | Sasebo, Nagasaki | CPC]
• Naka entered drydock at Maizuru, Japan. ww2dbase [Maizuru Naval Arsenal | Naka | Maizuru, Kyoto | CPC]

• German troops reached the northern shore of Severnaya Bay near Sevastopol, Russia. To the east of the city, positions held by troops of Soviet 386th Rifle Division were bombarded by German aircraft. As defeat appeared to be imminent, Soviet submarines D-6 and A-1 were scuttled in the harbor of Sevastopol to prevent capture. ww2dbase [Battle of Sevastopol | Sevastopol | CPC]
• German Ju 88 dive bombers sank Soviet destroyer Bezuprechny (320 were killed) and submarine S-32 (all 45 aboard were killed) 30 miles southeast of Sevastopol, Russia. ww2dbase [Sevastopol | CPC]

• German bombers attacked Norwich, England, United Kingdom. ww2dbase [Battle of Britain | Norwich, England | CPC]

26 Jun 1942 Interactive Map

• USS Tunny performed photographic reconnaissance at Saipan Harbor and Tinian Channel in the Mariana Islands. ww2dbase [Tunny | CPC]
• The US submarine Runner failed to report in whilst on patrol off Northern Japan and would soon be presumed lost. Post-war records showed that she sank Japanese passenger-cargo ship Shinryu Maru off Kurile Islands, Japan on this date. ww2dbase [Runner (Gato-class) | AC, CPC]
• USS Finback arrived at Fremantle, Australia, ending her fifth war patrol. ww2dbase [Finback | CPC]

• 11 B-17 bombers attacked Rabaul, New Britain before dawn. A J1N nightfighter (pilot Senior Flight Petty Officer Shigetoshi Kudo, observer Warrant Officer Michitaro Ichikawa) shot down B-17F bomber "Taxpayer's Pride" and B-17E bomber "Naughty But Nice", which made Shigetoshi Kudo the first Japanese nightfighter ace. ww2dbase [J1N | Rabaul, New Britain | CPC]

• US Navy squadrons VF-26, VF-27, and VF-28, all equipped with F4F fighters, were assigned to Henderson Field on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. US Marine Corps squadron VMSB-144, equipped with SBD-3 dive bombers, was transferred out of Henderson Field on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. ww2dbase [Henderson Field | Lunga Point, Guadalcanal | CPC]

• Robert Johnson's P-47 aircraft was badly damaged by German aircraft while flying patrol over France, but was able to return to base in Britain. ww2dbase [Robert Johnson | AC, CPC]
• The USAAF 306th Bomb Group flying from RAF Thurleigh launched a bombing raid against the airfield at Triqueville, France. ww2dbase [Bombing of Cities in France and Low Countries | RAF Thurleigh | Triqueville | DS]

• U-821 was launched by Oderwerke in Stettin, Germany. ww2dbase [Oderwerke AG | U-821 | Stettin, Pommern | CPC]

• USS S-38 departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her seventh war patrol. ww2dbase [S-38 | Honolulu, Oahu | CPC]

• USS S-35 transited Onekotan Strait in the Kurile Islands. ww2dbase [S-35 | Onekotan Strait, Hokkaido | CPC]

• Aircraft designer Clarence Johnson and his team at Lockheed in Burbank, California, United States began working on the first airframe of the XP-80 prototype jet fighter. ww2dbase [P-80 Shooting Star | Burbank, California | CPC]

26 Jun 1943 Interactive Map

• USS Tang attacked a Japanese cargo ship with four torpedoes without success. ww2dbase [Tang | CPC]
• Red Army captured Vitebsk, Byelorussia. ww2dbase [Operation Bagration | TH]
• General von Schlieben, commander of the German garrison in Cherbourg, France, was captured by US troops. ww2dbase [Normandy Campaign, Phase 1 | TH]
• Germans instituted a curfew in Copenhagen, Denmark in response to a wave of sabotage. In retaliation, the people of Copenhagen underwent a massive civil strike. ww2dbase [TH]
• Major General James Doolittle authorized Operation Aphrodite. ww2dbase [Operation Aphrodite and Operation Anvil | James Doolittle | CPC]

• HMS Cumberland deployed on patrol in Indian Ocean and called at Fremantle, Australia. ww2dbase [Cumberland | Fremantle | DS]

• USS Cero departed Manus, Admiralty Islands for her fifth war patrol. ww2dbase [Cero | Manus, Admiralty Islands | CPC]

• Gurkha troops of the Chindits and Chinese troops captured Mogaung, Burma. ww2dbase [Operation Thursday | Mogaung | CPC]
• Brigadier General Theodore Wessels relieved Haydon Boatner as the commanding officer of American and Chinese troops in the Myitkyina, Burma region. ww2dbase [Battle of Myitkyina | Haydon Boatner | Myitkyina | CPC]

• Japanese troops reached Hengyang, Hunan Province, China, site of an important US air base, but were checked by the 15,000-strong Chinese 10th Army supported by US 14th Air Force's B-25 Mitchell and P-47 Thunderbolt aircraft which made constant attacks on the Japanese supply lines. ww2dbase [Operation Ichigo | Hengyang, Hunan | AC]

• A transport of 3,119 Jews from Szeged, Hungary crossed into Poland at Kosice, Czechoslovakia. The train was destined for Auschwitz Concentration Camp in occupied Poland. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Kosice | CPC]

• Finnish troops counterattacked Soviet troops west of Lake Leitimojärvi near Tali (Paltsevo), Finland, destroying the Soviet 27th Tank Regiment and pushing the Soviets back to the line the Soviets held one day prior. ww2dbase [Battle of Tali-Ihantala and Battle of Vuosalmi | Tali | CPC]
• Lennart Oesch was awarded the Mannerheim Cross. ww2dbase [Lennart Oesch | CPC]

• Alexander Löhr was mentioned in the Wehrmachtbericht daily radio report. ww2dbase [Alexander Löhr | CPC]

• USS Croaker arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. ww2dbase [Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Croaker | Honolulu, Oahu | CPC]

• USS Luce bombarded Paramushiru (Paramushir), Kurile Islands. ww2dbase [Luce | Paramushiru, Hokkaido | CPC]
• The keel of landing ship No. 112 was laid down by Osaka Zosen. ww2dbase [No. 101/103-class | CPC]
• Landing ship No. 135 was launched. ww2dbase [No. 101/103-class | CPC]

• The crematoria in Auschwitz-II Birkenau in occupied Poland received four sieves for sifting bones out of human ashes. Up above, Allied aircraft took photographs of the Auschwitz camps complex at the altitude of about 30,000 feet (about 10,000 meters). ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Auschwitz Concentration Camp | Oswiecim | CPC]
• 72 B-17s departed Poltava and Myrhorod, Ukraine, rendezvoused with 55 P-51s from Pyriatyn, bombed the oil refinery and railway marshalling yard at Drohobycz (Drohobych), Poland (1 returned to the USSR because of mechanical trouble), and then proceeded to Italy as part of Operation Frantic’s shuttle-bombing plan. ww2dbase [B-17 Flying Fortress | P-51 Mustang | Operation Frantic | Drohobycz | DS]
• Togo's repairs at Gotenhafen, Germany (occupied Gdynia, Poland) was completed. ww2dbase [Togo / Coronel | Gdynia, Pomorskie | CPC]

• The first V-1 bomb to drop on London, England, United Kingdom on this day hit Elfin Road in Camberwell at 0130 hours, killing three and demolishing 18 houses. The US Naval Armed Guard Service vessel William A. Jones brought down a bomb whilst on patrol off the French Normandie coast. One US Naval Officer said "We never could get used to those buzz bomb attacks. Kinda like an artillery shell: as long as you can hear them you know that you are OK. When the noise of the buzz bomb stopped you had an instant cure for haemorrhoids." The Mosquito XIII night fighters of 96 Squadron from RAF Ford were getting used to the method of attacking the bombs and brought down six between 0030 and 0334 hours. ww2dbase [V-Weapons Campaign | London, England | HM]

• USS Ticonderoga departed Norfolk, Virginia, United States for Trinidad. ww2dbase [Ticonderoga | Norfolk, Virginia | DS]
• USS Segundo departed New London, Connecticut, United States. ww2dbase [Segundo | New London, Connecticut | CPC]

26 Jun 1944 Interactive Map

• USS Cod departed Guam, Mariana Islands for her seventh war patrol. ww2dbase [Cod | CPC]
• Emil Hácha passed away in a prison hospital while awaiting trial. ww2dbase [Emil Hácha | CPC]
• The Ohka Model 22 variant design saw its first drop test; it was a failure, with the aircraft exploding in an in-flight accident. ww2dbase [MXY7 Ohka | CPC]
• USS Pintado rescued a downed B-29 bomber crew south of Honshu, Japan. ww2dbase [Pintado | CPC]

• The US coastal minesweepers YMS-39 and YMS-365 were mined and sunk off Balikpapan, Borneo. ww2dbase [Balikpapan, Borneo | AC]
• Destroyer USS Saufley departed Morotai, Molucca Islands escorting an invasion convoy bound for Balikpapan, Borneo. ww2dbase [Saufley | Morotai, Molucca Islands | DS]

• USS Springer rescued the eight survivors of a shot down B-29 bomber and one survivor of another south of Tokyo, Japan. ww2dbase [Springer | CPC]

• The United Nations charter was signed at the Herbst Theatre in San Francisco, California, United States. ww2dbase [San Francisco, California | TH, CPC]
• As Jan Smuts affixed his signature to the United Nations Charter at San Francisco, California, United States, he became the only person to have signed the documents forming the League of Nations and the United Nations. ww2dbase [Jan Smuts | San Francisco, California | CPC]
• V. K. "Wellington" Koo led the 8-person Chinese delegation in the signing of the United Nations charter at the Herbst Theatre in San Francisco, California, United States. ww2dbase [Wellington Koo | San Francisco, California | CPC]

26 Jun 1945 Interactive Map

• Yosuke Matsuoka passed away. ww2dbase [Yosuke Matsuoka | CPC]
• Sawfish was decommissioned from service. ww2dbase [Sawfish | CPC]

• Allied repatriation ship Hikawa Maru arrived in Shanghai, China and embarked Japanese personnel. ww2dbase [Hikawa Maru | Shanghai | CPC]

• USS Helm was decommissioned at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. ww2dbase [Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Helm | Pearl Harbor, Oahu | CPC]

• Raizo Tanaka retired from military service. ww2dbase [Raizo Tanaka | CPC]

• Max Koegel, former Majdanek Concentration Camp commandant, was arrested. ww2dbase [Nuremberg Trials and Other Trials Against Germany | Majdanek Concentration Camp | Lublin | CPC]

26 Jun 1946 Interactive Map

• Hereditary Grand Duke Jean relinquished his commission in the British Army. ww2dbase [Jean | ]

• Captain Henry Richter was named the commanding officer of USS Saint Paul. ww2dbase [Saint Paul | CPC]

• Hiroshi Nemoto departed Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan. ww2dbase [Hiroshi Nemoto | Miyazaki | CPC]

• Kim Gu was assassinated by Ahn Doo-hee in Seoul, South Korea. ww2dbase [Kim Gu | Seoul | CPC]

• The ten sections of USS AFDB-1 arrived at Apra Harbor, Guam, Mariana Islands under tow. ww2dbase [ABSD-1 | Apra Harbor | CPC]

• USS Sea Cat completed her conversion work at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, United States and departed for Key West, Florida, United States. ww2dbase [Philadelphia Navy Yard | Sea Cat | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | CPC]

26 Jun 1952 Interactive Map

• Lavrentiy Beria was arrested near Moscow, Russia as an alleged spy and an enemy of the people. ww2dbase [Lavrentiy Beria | Moscow | CPC]

26 Jun 1957 Interactive Map

• USS Hornet was decommissioned from service. ww2dbase [Hornet (Essex-class) | CPC]

• USS Wasp departed Copenhagen, Denmark. ww2dbase [Wasp (Essex-class) | Copenhagen | CPC]

26 Jun 1986 Interactive Map