The Battle of Kohima began around the town of Kohima in British India. The battle would prove to be the turning point in U-Go, and also prove to be long-running.
Japanese forces were depending on taking the town in order to resupply their provisions. In their initial attacks they cut off all access to the town.
A German counterattack by the 4th Panzer Army retook Kovel, a city in pre-war Poland, which is now in Ukraine. The attack blocked the Soviets from gaining a pass through the Carpathians.
The city had a large Jewish population before World War Two, and in fact had a large Ukrainian population that were members of the Communist Party. The Soviet invasion in 1939 had accordingly been largely welcomed. The German invasion would, of course, prove tragic, with 18,000 Jewish residents of the city being murdered. The city became a refuge for Poles escaping Ukrainian partisans late in the war. After the war, the Polish population of the city was forcibly relocated to post-war Poland.
A de Havilland Mosquito from the SAAF 60 Photo-Recon Squadron, flying out of Foggia, Italy to photograph the IG Farben photographed Auschwitz as part of a filming overrun, the latter of which was a practice in photo recon missions. It was the first instance of Auschwitz being photographed by the Allies from the air.
Six Valentine DD tanks sank in Exercise Smash I with the loss of their crews.
Forty-nine Axis aircraft were lost contesting an Allied raid, launched from forces in the Mediterranean, on Bucharest's marshalling yards. Twelve to Twenty Allied aircraft were lost. 2,942 civilians were killed.
Charles de Gaulle announced changes to the Committee of National Liberation in Algiers, including the appointment of two Communists.
In France, the resistance halts aircraft parts production at Bronzavaia.
The First Partisan battalion Pino Budicin in Yugoslavia, made up of Italian Communists was formed.
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Caterpillar Crew.
Charlie Chaplin was acquitted of violating the Mann Act.
The suit was somewhat ironic in that it stemmed from Joan Barry's pregnancy. While FBI files suggest that Barry aborted two children during her affair with Chaplin, which did occur, this child was not Chaplin's, as blood tests proved. Chaplin, in a separate suit, would nonetheless be ordered to pay child support for the girl until age 21.
Moreover, Barry was 21 years old with her affair with 52-year-old Chaplin began. Chaplin definitely fished in the shallower end of the pond, but Barry was of age, which at least one of his prior conquests, whom he married, was not.
Barry was sliding towards insanity, and after her affair with Chaplin ended, stocked him. She'd end up being committed to a mental institution at age 33, by which time she had married and had two additional children.
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Wednesday, June 16, 1943. Noor Inayat Khan inserted in France.
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