Eighty Years Ago: Asia Pacific, May 28 – June 3, 1942
- By Peter Harmsen
- 8 June, 2022
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May 28, 1942: Japanese Army pushes Chinese forces out of Jinhua, Zhejiang province
May 29, 1942: Thai Army, assisted by Japan, invades neighboring Kengtung state
May 30, 1942: British battleship HMS Ramillies is torpedoed by Japanese midget submarines while anchored off Madagascar
May 31, 1942: Three Japanese midget submarines enter Sydney Harbor
June 1, 1942: Alfred Masters is first African American since Revolutionary War to enlist in the US Marine Corps
June 2, 1942: US naval force, consisting of three aircraft carriers and an aassortment of other ships under the command of Admiral Frank Jack Fletcher, move to point about 200 miles north of Midway
June 3, 1942: Japanese carrier-based aircraft attack US positions in the Aleutians
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