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June 1944

The following events occurred in June 1944: June 1, 1944 (Thursday)The American submarine Herring was sunk by Japanese coastal batteries on Matua Island.British troops captured Frosinone, Italy.60 men of the British 2nd Parachute Brigade began Operation Hasty, a mission behind German lines in Italy.Adolf Hitler dissolved the Abwehr and transferred its functions to the Reich Security Main Office under Heinrich Himmler.The BBC broadcast a coded message based on the Paul Verlaine poem Chanson d'automne to inform the French Resistance that the invasion of France was imminent.

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