U.S. Army issued map of the state of the war for this week, coming out this week in 1942.
Life magazine, hitting the stands on this day, featured the Stars and Stripes on its cover.
Today in World War II History—July 6, 1942: Anne Frank’s family goes into hiding in Amsterdam. Japanese forces land on Guadalcanal to build an air base. British First Army is activated.
All significant in their own way, with the first of course being tragic.
The Royal Air Force sank the U-502 in the Bay of Biscay using a Wellington equipped with a high powered spotlight. While seemingly a simple device, the equipping of aircraft with the lights would cause the German Navy to have to recharge submarine batteries during the day.
Otherwise, the Germans had a good day in the Battle of the Atlantic. And in Case Blue as well, although the Soviets now concluded that the German effort was towards the Caucasian oilfields and not towards Moscow. The Germans took Voronezh
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