Today in World War II History—May 30, 1942
Monday, May 30, 2022 by Sarah Sundin
80 Years Ago—May 30, 1942: RAF Operation Millennium: first 1000-bomber raid, to Cologne, Germany.
USS Yorktown leaves Pearl Harbor for Midway after hasty repairs from damage at the Battle of the Coral Sea.
Germans execute French writer Jacques Decour in Paris; Decour founded a resistance group for writers as well as three literary resistance papers.
United States commemorates Memorial Day.