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This Day In History - 6/9/2002 12:33:50 AM

Mark W Carver

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8 Jun 43 - The Japanese Battleship Mutsu is sunk, by an internal
explosion, in Hiroshima Bay!

8 Jun 45 - British submarine Trenchant torpedos the Japanese cruiser Ashigara in the Java Sea. She was evacuating soldiers from Batavia to Japan.

Carrier-based aircraft of the USN's Task Groups 38.1 and 38.4 attack the Kanoya Airdrome complex on Kyushu Island, Japan attempting to hinder kamikaze missions.