Air Operations, Europe

An He-111 carrying magnetic mines is damaged by AA fire and crashes in Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. The 4-man crew and 2 civilians are killed, 156 people are injured and 50 houses are damaged.

First British Casualties of German Bombing

Battle of the Atlantic

• The British anti-submarine trawlers Jardine (452t) and Warwickshire (466t) are sunk by German bombing at Aandalsnes. They are later salvaged by German forces and renamed Cherusker and Alame respectively for German service.
• The British trawler Athelstan is sunk in the North Sea by German bombing.

Norway

British commence the evacuation of Andalsnes, Molde and Alesund. German columns from Oslo and Trondheim link up in central Norway. The important rail center of Dombas is captured.

British Sloop Bittern Ablaze

The HMS Glasgow evacuates King Haakon and his government from Molde to Tromso.

Occupied Poland

The first enclosed and guarded ghetto is established by the Germans in Lodz.