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• Yamato departed for Kure, Japan to receive five new triple-mount 25mm AA guns; during the installation, the entire hinoki deck would also be replaced. ww2dbase [Yamato | CPC]
• USS Tang attacked the unescorted Japanese transport Nikkin Maru between Kyushu, Japan and Dalian, China with two torpedoes without success. ww2dbase [Tang | CPC]
• The 70,000 remaining troops of German Armeegruppe Mitte, surrounded near Bobruisk, Byelorussia, surrendered. ww2dbase [Operation Bagration | TH]
• The last harbor fort at Cherbourg, France was captured by US troops. Meanwhile, a planned German offensive by the 2nd and 9th Panzer Divisions at Villers-Bocage, west of Caen, was abandoned when their armored columns were blasted by 260 RAF heavy bombers. ww2dbase [Normandy Campaign, Phase 1 | TH]
• A transport of 2,502 Hungarian Jews from Auschwitz Concentration Camp arrived at Stutthof Concentration Camp. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | CPC]
• Konstantin Rokossovsky was promoted to the rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union. ww2dbase [Konstantin Rokossovsky | CPC]
• Martti Aho was wounded in battle at Tali-Ihantala, Finland. ww2dbase [Martti Aho | CPC]
• Erwin Rommel and Gerd von Rundstedt met with Adolf Hitler at Hitler's residence in Berchtesgaden, southern Germany. They urged Hitler to pursue peace, but Htiler rejected such a notion, saying that the V weapons would soon turn the tide of war. ww2dbase [Adolf Hitler | CPC]

• USS Gabilan departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her second war patrol. ww2dbase [Gabilan | Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Pearl Harbor, Oahu | CPC]
• Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Camera Repair School (quonset hut) turned over to station. Parts of Air Group 21 on board. ww2dbase [Barbers Point Naval Air Station | Ewa, Oahu | DS]
• With her overhaul completed, submarine USS Saury departed Pearl Harbor, Hawai'i on her tenth war patrol. Her assigned patrol area was off San Bernardino Strait in the Philippines. ww2dbase [Saury | Pearl Harbor, Oahu | DS]

• Submarine USS Growler made a nighttime surface torpedo attack on the 1,920-ton Japanese tanker Katori Maru loaded with gasoline which exploded with great fury. ww2dbase [Growler | Mariana Islands Campaign | Balintang Channel, Luzon Strait | DS]

• Out of about 1,100 prisoners at Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp in Germany with valid entry certificates for Palestine, 221 Jews were allowed to go; they would arrive in Haifa at 1700 hours on 10 Jul. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp | Bergen, Ost-Hannover | CPC]

• Nachi departed Yokosuka, Japan. ww2dbase [Nachi | Yokosuka, Kanagawa | CPC]

• USS Hoe departed Fremantle, Australia for her fifth war patrol in the South China Sea. ww2dbase [Hoe | Fremantle, Western Australia | CPC]
• Submarine USS Narwhal arrived at Darwin, Australia and disembarked all passengers. ww2dbase [Narwhal | Darwin | DS]

• USS Tunny arrived at Midway Atoll. ww2dbase [Midway Bases | Tunny | Midway | CPC]

• Divisione Decima (10th Division) of Italian Navy was placed under the command of SS-General Karl Wolff. ww2dbase [CPC]

• Finnish troops repulsed the pursuing Soviet troops and re-established the Vakkila-Ihantalajärvi-Kokkoselkä-Noskuanselkä Line in Finland. ww2dbase [Battle of Tali-Ihantala and Battle of Vuosalmi | CPC]

• Richard Saul retired from the British Royal Air Force. ww2dbase [Richard Saul | CPC]
• The borough of Penge in south-east London, England, United Kingdom received four V-1 flying bombs or "Divers" as they were now being called by the military. The first three explosions did considerable damage to houses but caused no casualties, the fourth however, fell behind an anti-aircraft gun site and killed a soldier and destroyed the Nissen huts where Z rockets were going to be stored. The afternoon and evening saw over seven explosions causing loss of life in the south London area. The Folkestone and Hythe anti-aircraft batteries brought down eight into the sea during the day. ww2dbase [V-Weapons Campaign | Vergeltungswaffe 1 | London, England | HM]

• Lim Bo Seng passed away from diseases while in Japanese captivity at Batu Gajah prison, Perak, Malaya. ww2dbase [Lim Bo Seng | Batu Gajah, Perak | CPC]

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