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WITH THE BRITISH FORCES, in Libya, June 2 (AP) -- Under a blazing sun that sent the temperature above 100 degrees, British tankmen fought a furious battle with Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's battered forces yesterday over a ten-mile expanse of desert.
A Clement, ed of J Doriot's Paris Le Cri du Peuple, killed; assassin escapes; Communist round-up reptd
Transocean News Service repts ship will take Amer diplomats from Far East to Lourenco Marquez, Portuguese East Africa, for exch with Japanese; U S State Dept silent on plans
distributors, complying with NWLB request, defer plan; meet with union officials but reach no agreement; both sides conf with Fed Conciliator A Horvitz, La Guardia urges cos to share store and delivery price differential with drivers who may lose jobs, radio s
More than 1,000 Brit bombers raid Essen and other Ruhr points
1942Curtis Mayfield, American singer-songwriter and producer (died 1999)[†]
Curtis Lee Mayfield was an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer. Dubbed the "Gentle Genius", he is considered one of the most influential musicians of soul and socially conscious African-American music. Mayfield first achieved success and recognition with the vocal group the Impressions during the civil rights movement of the late 1950s and the 1960s, and later worked as a solo artist.
1942World War II: Japan begins the Aleutian Islands Campaign by bombing Unalaska Island.[†]
The Empire of Japan, also known as the Japanese Empire or Imperial Japan, was the Japanese nation state that existed from the Meiji Restoration on January 3, 1868, until the Constitution of Japan took effect on May 3, 1947. From August 1910 to September 1945, it included the Japanese archipelago, the Kurils, Karafuto, Korea, and Taiwan. The South Seas Mandate and concessions such as the Kwantung Leased Territory were de jure not internal parts of the empire but dependent territories. In the closing stages of World War II, with Japan defeated alongside the rest of the Axis powers, the formalized surrender was issued on September 2, 1945, in compliance with the Potsdam Declaration of the Allies, and the empire's territory subsequently shrunk to cover only the Japanese archipelago resembling modern Japan.