Today in WW II: 6 Jul 1939 All remaining Jewish enterprises in Germany are closed by the Nazis.  More ↓
6 Jul 1942 Anne Frank's Jewish family goes into hiding in an attic above her father's office in an Amsterdam warehouse.
6 Jul 1942 Flying Tigers in Burma and China integrated into the US Army Air Forces as the China Air Task Force with Gen. Claire Chennault commanding the new unit.
6 Jul 1943 US and Japanese naval forces fight the Battle of Kula Gulf off Kolombangara, in the New Georgia Islands group of the Solomon Islands.
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Military Truck Mounted Cranes in the 1950s

U.S. Army truck mounted crane placing steeple on chapel at Red Canyon Range Camp, in the northeast corner of White Sands Missile Range, 1957.
U.S. Army truck mounted crane placing steeple on chapel at Red Canyon Range Camp, in the northeast corner of White Sands Missile Range, 1957.