June 22, 1942
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MONDAY, 22 JUNE 1942

ALASKA (11th Air Force): A B-17 flies weather reconnaissance over Kiska. Fighters fly air base patrols. A bombing mission is canceled due to weather.

IJN: Montevideo Maru embarks 1,053 Allied personnel including 845 Australian Prisoners Of War (POW) and 208 civilians at Rabaul then departs bound for Hainan Island. The ship was not marked to indicate it was transporting Allied prisoners. On July 1, 1942 torpedoed by USS Sturgeon (SS-187) off Luzon in the Philippines.