Air Operations, Europe

During the night the Hamm marshalling yards are bombed by the RAF for the sixtieth time.

Axis Diplomacy

Finland signs an agreement with Germany permitting its troops transit rights. This privilege is immediately used to transport Wehrmacht units to Norway throught the port of Vaasa.

Battle of Britain

Day 65

Weather - Unsettled with rain in most areas.

Combat - Bad weather conditions greatly reduce air activity for the whole day.

There are small engagements with reconnaissance aircraft. Hurricanes of No: 151 Squadron scrambling from Digby, intercept a Ju-88 off the Humber Estuary whilst another Ju-88 is shot down over the Channel by a Hurricane of No: 605 Squadron, based at Croydon.

Later in the afternoon Ju-88's make another small raid over Hampshire and Wiltshire before being intercepted by Hurricanes of No: 238 Squadron, scrambling from Middle Wallop.

During the night, bombing raids are reduced compared to previous nights. Bombs however, are still dropped on London and the areas of Liverpool, Midlands and South Wales.

R.A.F. Losses: 2 aircraft damaged or destroyed and 2 pilots killed.

Luftwaffe Losses: 13 aircraft damaged or destroyed, 18 pilots and aircrew killed or missing and 5 wounded.

NOTE: Losses include non-combat patrols and accidents.

Battle of the Atlantic

The British tanker Gothic (2444t) sinks on an aerial mine laid by a plane from the German IX Air Division about 6 miles from Spurn Point. 2 crewmen are killed and 10 are missing.

German Raiders

The German armed merchant cruiser Pinguin sinks the British steamer Benavon (5872t) in the Indian Ocean. 24 crewmen are lost and 25 are made prisoners of war.

Occupied Poland

500,000 Jews are to be confined in the walled Warsaw ghetto.

United States, Policy?

U.S. Ambassador Joseph C. Grew in Tokyo tells Secretary Hull that the Japanese might retaliate in the face of U.S. embargoed oil shipments to Japan.

Vichy France

17,000-year-old wall paintings of animals and hunters are discovered in Lascaux Cave near Dordogne.

The caves were discovered by four teenage boys. The system of caves that contained about 2,000 images — animals, people and abstract figures — are believed to be about 17,000 years old.

Cave Paintings Discovered