Today in World War II History—June 20, 1942
80 Years Ago—June 20, 1942: Japanese submarine I-26 shells Estevan Point Lighthouse and a radio-direction-finding station on Vancouver Island, BC, no damage; first enemy shelling of Canada since the War of 1812.
Four Polish prisoners escape from Auschwitz concentration camp disguised as SS guards in an SS car; this leads to tattooing of prisoners a month later.
The New York Times publishes a report by the World Jewish Congress that the Germans had killed 1 million in a “vast slaughterhouse for the Jews.”
In New York City, the FBI captures three of the German saboteurs landed by U-boats a week earlier.