This date in history

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1911 RMS Titanic launched in Belfast.

1916 Battle of Jutland: Largest naval battle of World War I between the British Grand Fleet and the German High Seas Fleet which killed 8,645 in an inconclusive battle but strategic British victory. German fleet never puts to sea again in WWI.

1940 Major General Bernard Montgomery leaves Dunkirk.

1940 Winston Churchill flies to Paris to meet with French Marshal Philippe Pétain who announces he is willing to make a separate peace with Germany.

1941 A Luftwaffe air raid in Dublin, in neutral Ireland, claims 38 lives.

1942 U-boats sink and damage 146 allied ships this month (722,666 tons).

1943 42 U-boats sunk by the Allies this month.

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1796 Last of Britain's troops withdraw from USA.

1918 Canadian ace Billy Bishop downs 6 aircrafts over a three-day span, including German ace Paul Bilik, reclaiming his top scoring title from James McCudden.

1939 British submarine "Thetis" sinks in Liverpool Bay with all 99 aboard.

1944 Allied generals Bernard Montgomery, George S. Patton, Omar Bradley, Miles Dempsey and Harry Crerar meet in Portsmouth, England just prior to D-Day.

1962 SS officer Adolf Eichmann is executed in Israel after being found guilty of war crimes.

1998 European Central Bank is founded in Brussels to define and execute the European Union's monetary policy.

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1943: FAMED BRITISH ACTOR AND WAR PROPAGANDIST LESLIE HOWARD IS SHOT DOWN IN BAY OF BISCAY:

Originally Posted by WIKI-ETAL

Howard's Second World War activities included acting and filmmaking. He was active in anti-German propaganda and rumoured to have been involved with British or Allied Intelligence, sparking conspiracy theories regarding his death in 1943 when the Luftwaffe shot down BOAC Flight 777 over the Bay of Biscay (in Cedeira, A Coruña) on which he was a passenger.In 1943 Howard was 50 and doing propaganda work of a more subtle kind, acting as a “British cultural ambassador” in Portugal. On June 1 he boarded Flight 777 at Lisbon airport, a civilian DC-3 heading for Bristol. A squadron of Junkers 88 fighter-bombers shadowed them and then, even though the airliner was known to be a civilian plane on a scheduled flight, shot it down over the Bay of Biscay.
Was it a mistake? Rumours soon began to circulate that the Luftwaffe had targeted the plane because they believed that Churchill was on it. The British prime minister was indeed supposed to be returning to the UK from Lisbon that day, on a later flight. But it doesn’t seem likely that agents from the Abwehr, German military intelligence, could have confused the two flights – not least because Churchill would not have taken an unescorted scheduled flight at that stage in the war.
“There are many theories as to why my father was shot down,” Doodie says in the documentary. “One was that the Germans thought his manager, who was accompanying him, was Churchill – because he looked quite like him, a bald, pudgy man who smoked big cigars. But I don’t believe the German secret service would be taken in like that.”

PLOTS WITHIN PLOTS ABOUND-THE RECORDS ARE STILL SEALED- BUT THIS RINGS TRUE IMHO:

Sönke Neitzel and Harald Welzer's "Soldiers: Germans POW's on Fighting Killing, and Dying" includes a recently declassified transcript of a surreptitiously recorded conversation by two German Luftwaffe prisoners of war talking about the shooting down of Howard's flight. The Luftwaffe pilot seems to express pride in his accomplishment, but states clearly he knew nothing of the passenger's identities or importance until hearing an English broadcast later that evening. Asked why he shot down a civil aircraft, he states it was one of 4 such planes he shot down: "Whatever crossed our path was shot down."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Howard

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1896 Guglielmo Marconi applies to patent the radio, accepted 2 July 1897.

1902 British naval officer David Beatty is appointed captain of the cruiser HMS Juno.

1917 Canadian ace Billy Bishop undertakes a solo mission behind enemy lines, shooting down three aircrafts as they were about to take off and several more on the ground, for which he is awarded the Victoria Cross.

1940 Heavy German bombing on Dunkirk beach.

1944 Herzogenbusch concentration camp near Vught, Netherlands, is disbanded by Allied forces, one of two SS-run camps outside Germany.

1953 Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in Westminster Abbey, London, England.

1989 10,000 Chinese soldiers are blocked by 100,000 citizens in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, protecting students demonstrating for democracy.

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1896 British naval officer David Beatty is seconded to the Egyptian government and appointed second in command of the river flotilla.

1935 French liner SS Normandie sets Atlantic crossing record of four days, three hours and 14 minutes on her maiden voyage.

1940 Last British and French troops evacuated from Dunkirk.

1943 A mob of 60 from the Los Angeles Naval Reserve Armory beat up everyone perceived to be Hispanic, starting the week-long Zoot Suit Riots.

1944 Nazis pull out of Rome.

1946 International Military Tribunal opens in Tokyo against 28 Japanese war criminals.

1989 Beginning of the Tiananmen Square Massacre as Chinese troops open fire on pro-democracy supporters in Beijing.

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1944: TYPE XIC U-505 IS THE FIRST ENEMY VESSEL CAPTURED IN BATTLE SINCE 1812_ LTJG ALBERT DAVID RECIEVED THE MEDAL OF HONOR FOR LEADING THE BOARDING PARTY KNOWING SCUTTLE CHARGES WERE SET.KNOWING THE DETONTION SCUTTLE CHARGES WERE SET.....,-COMPLETE WITH ENIGM MACHINE AND CODEBOOKS!

 

The cipher materials captured on U-505 included the special "coordinate" code, the regular and officer Enigma settings for June 1944, the current short weather codebook, the short signal codebook, and bigram tables due to come into effect in July and August. The material arrived at the decryption establishment at Bletchley Park on 20 June 1944, and the Allies were able to break most of the Enigma settings by intense cryptanalysis, including heavy use of the electromechanical "bombes". It saved work and time to have the Enigma settings for the U-boats which could be applied to other keys. The settings break was only valid until the end of June and therefore had an extremely limited outcome on the eventual cracking of the Enigma code, but having the weather and short signal codebooks and bigram tables made the work easier.
The "coordinate" code was used in German messages as an added layer of security for locations. Allied commanders sent Hunter-Killer task groups to these known U-boat locations, and re-routed shipping away from the areas A more lasting benefit came from the intact capture of the U-boat's two G7es (Zaunkönig T-5) acoustic homing torpedoes. These were thoroughly analyzed and then tested on the range, giving information that was invaluable in improving the Foxerand FXR countermeasures systems, as well as the doctrine for using them to protect escorts.

AND CURRENTLY RESIDES IN THE CHICAGO MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_submarine_U-505

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1940 British complete the "Miracle of Dunkirk" by evacuating 338,226 allied troops from France via a flotilla of over 800 vessels including Royal Navy destroyers, merchant marine boats, fishing boats, pleasure craft and even lifeboats.

1940 Winston Churchill's speech "We shall fight on the seas and oceans"

1942 Battle of Midway begins; Japan's first major defeat in WW II

1944 U505 becomes the first German submarine captured and boarded on high seas.

1944 General Eisenhower cancels planned D-Day invasion on June 5th after receiving unfavorable weather reports.

1945 US, Soviet Union, Britain and France agree to divide up occupied Germany.

1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre: Chinese troops clear the square of student protesters, unofficial figures place death toll near 1,000.

2018 US President Donald Trump tweets "I have the absolute right to PARDON myself"

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1906 Determined to keep pace with Britain as a major naval power, the German Reichstag passes new navy legislation, increasing the total tonnage in Germany's fleet.

1944 As part of Operation Tonga, the first British gliders touch down on French soil to prepare for the D-Day invasion.

1944 German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel goes on leave just before WWII D-Day landings by the Allies.

1944 After receiving favorable weather reports, General Eisenhower decides to proceed with the D-Day invasion on June 6.

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1944 German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel goes on leave just before WWII D-Day landings by the Allies.

HE LEFT FOR GERMANY AND HIS WIFE'S BIRTHDAY SECURE IN IN THE WEHRMACHT DOCTRINE THAT NO LANDING WOULD OCCUR ABOVE SEA LEVEL 4 IN THE CHANNEL...EXCEPT THAT THE ALLIED INVASION PROTOCOL PERMITTED LEVEL 6....https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1063/PT.3.1257

The Allies would certainly have liked to land at high tide, as Rommel expected, so their troops would have less beach to cross under fire. But the underwater obstacles changed that. The Allied planners now decided that initial landings must be soon after low tide so that demolition teams could blow up enough obstacles to open corridors through which the following landing craft could navigate to the beach. The tide also had to be rising, because the landing craft had to unload troops and then depart without danger of being stranded by a receding tide.

MOVE OVER ENIGMA: IT'S ALL ABOUT THE KELVIN TIDE CALCULATOR USED BY: <Arthur Thomas Doodson at the Liverpool Tidal Institute. The 53-year-old Doodson was at that time the world’s leading authority on tide prediction. He used two tide-predicting machines: the Kelvin machine, built in 1872 but overhauled in 1942

]“most urgent” October 1943 note to Arthur Doodson from William Farquharson, the Admiralty’s superintendent of tides, listing 11 pairs of tidal harmonic constants for a location, code-named “Position Z,” for which he was to prepare hourly tide predictions for April through July 1944. Doodson was not told that the predictions were for the Normandy coast, but he guessed as muchIt is still not known how Farquharson came up with those 11 pairs of harmonic constants. Probably he modified the Le Havre constants in such a way as to match the shape of a measured tide curve determined from the little bit of water-level data collected by one of the reconnaissance teams. He may also have taken into consideration the time and height differences found in the Admiralty Tide Tables. In any case, Farquharson’s harmonic constants for the Normandy beaches compare favorably with those derived from modern hydrodynamic tide models of the English Channel.
Doodson put Farquharson’s harmonic constants on his tide-predicting machines to produce the tide predictions for D-Day.

IT ALL CAME DOWN TO A SINGLE SHEET: TOP SECRET YOUR EYES ONLY:

 

AS A MARRIED MAN MYSELF; ROMMEL HAD HIS PRIORITIES IN ORDER ON JUNE 6....IMHO

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1918 Battle of Belleau Wood, first US victory of WW I

1942 Japanese forces retreat, ending Battle of Midway.

1944 As part of the D-Day landings, the 82nd Airborne Division arrives at the French town of Sainte-Mère-Église.

1944 Operation Overlord: D-Day begins as the 150,000 strong Allied Expeditionary Force lands in Normandy, France, during World War II

1944 German submarines U-955, U-970, U-629 and U-373 sink in Bay of Biscay.

1971 Air West flight 706 collides with a US Marine Corps F-4B Phantom jet over Los Angeles killing all 49 aboard the DC-6 and the pilot of the F-4B.

1985 Body of Nazi concentration camp doctor Dr Josef Mengele located and exhumed.

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1938 The Douglas DC-4E makes its first test flight.

1940 British/French troops evacuate Narvik.

1942 USS Yorktown sinks near Midway Island.

1942 Battle of Midway ends: Admiral Chester Nimitz wins first World War II naval defeat of Japan.

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793 Vikings in long ships from modern-day Norway plunder St Cuthbert's monastery on Lindisfarne Island, off the northeast coast of England.

1940 Last British troops leave Narvik, Norway.

1960 Argentine government demands release of Adolf Eichmann.

1982 Falklands War: Royal Fleet Auxiliary Sir Gahalad attacked in San Carlos Water ("Bomb Alley") by Argentine aircraft: 48 soldiers and crewman were killed.

1987 New Zealand's Labour government legislates against nuclear weapons and nuclear powered vessels in NZ. Only nation to legislate against nuclear power.

1988 Nippon Airways announces that painting eyeballs on Jets cut bird collisions by 20%

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1910 A passenger on SS Arawatta throws bottle with note overboard (found June 6, 1983 in Queensland).

1915 US President Woodrow Wilson sends second Lusitania note to Germany protesting sinking of the Lusitania and refuting German claim British blockade illegal.

1940 General Charles de Gaulle's first meeting with Winston Churchill.

1942 Nazis kill all inhabitants of Lidice, which had been implicated in the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, Nazi controller of Bohemia and Moravia, to “teach the Czechs a final lesson of subservience and humility”

1959 First ballistic missile submarine launched (George Washington-Groton, Ct)

1997 British lease on the New Territories in Hong Kong expires.

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1940 German "Dutch" Q-ship Atlantis sinks Norwegian tanker.

1940 Norway surrenders to Nazi Germany after 62 days of fighting.

1943 FDR becomes 1st US President to visit a foreign country during wartime.

1943 Heinrich Himmler ordered the final liquidation of Lodz ghetto in occupied Poland.

1944 Nazi forces carry out a massacre of 642 civilians in the French village Oradour-sur-Glane.

1945 US destroyer William D Porter ("Willie Dee") sunk by kamikaze.

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1900 David Beatty and 150 men from HMS Barfleur land as part of a force of 2,400 defending Tientsin from 15,000 Chinese troops plus Boxers.

1940 World War II: First attack of the Italian Air force on the island of Malta.

1944 15 US aircraft carriers attack Japanese bases on Marianas.

1947 WW II sugar rationing finally ends in US (began May 28, 1942).

1964 Queen Elizabeth orders Beatles to her birthday party, they attend.

1987 Margaret Thatcher is first British Prime Minister in 160 years to win a third consecutive term.