Subhas Chandra Bose met with Hideki Tojo, who promised to help India secure independence from the United Kingdom.
On the same day, Noor Inayat Khan, born in Moscow to an Indian father and American mother., was deposited by light aircraft in France as an agent of the Special Operations Executive (SOE). She'd serve as a radio operator under the code name Madeline.
The SOE, which was heavily penetrated by German intelligence, would ultimately capture her and execute her in September 1944.
Her father was a Sufi mystic, which heavily influenced her outlook. Raised in London and Paris, she was a poet before the war.
The Japanese raided Guadalcanal by air.
Today in World War II History—June 16, 1943: Japanese suffer their biggest aerial defeat over the Solomon Islands, losing 96 of 120 aircraft to antiaircraft fire and to Allied fighter pilots .
Charlie Chaplin married Oona O'Neill, daughter of playwright Eugene O'Neill. The father disowned the daughter as a result. It was Chaplin's fourth and final marriage.
She was barely 18 years old at the time of the marriage, Chaplin having a track record for young women.
