June 4th, 1943 (FRIDAY)
MEDITERRANEAN SEA: Pantelleria, a small island, bombed for the first of 8 days, today.During the night of 3/4 June, Northwest African Strategic Air Force (NASAF) Wellingtons bomb Syracuse, Sicily; Catanzaro, Italy; and Pantelleria Island in the Mediterranean, which is also hit on the following day by fighters, light, medium, and heavy bombers, of NASAF and the Northwest Tactical Air Force (NATAF).
ALGERIA: Algiers: General Henri Giraud is appointed C-in-C of the Fighting French Army.
TERRITORY OF ALASKA: On Kiska Island in the Aleutian Islands, six USAAF Eleventh Air Force B-24 Liberators following a Navy PV-1 Ventura make a radar-bombing run over North Head. Fourteen P-40s and P-38 Lightnings bomb North Head, Main Camp and Little Kiska Island.
CANADA: HMCS Lasalle is laid down at Lauzon, Province of Quebec.
HMCS Lindsay is launched from Midland, Ontario.
U.S.A.: Kermit Roosevelt, the brother of Brigadier-General Theodore Roosevelt Junior, and nephew of the PresidentRoosevelt"> Roosevelt, commits suicide He will be buried at Fort Richardson. (Marc James Small)
ARGENTINA: Military revolution in Argentina ousted President Castillo.
ATLANTIC OCEAN: The British submarine HMS TRUCULENT sinks U-308 off the Faeroe Islands in position 64.28N, 03.09W by torpedoes. All U-boat crew of 44 are lost.
U-594 (Type VIIC) Sunk west of Gibraltar, in position 35.55N, 09.25W, by rockets from a British Hudson aircraft (48 Sqdn.). 50 dead (all crew lost).
(Alex Gordon)