Air Operations, Europe

During the night RAF aircraft drop leaflets over Cracow and Katowice in southern Poland.

Battle of the Atlantic

U-123 sinks the British steamer Alnmoor (6573t), straggling behind Convoy SC-21, about 400 miles south-southwest of Rockall. All 42 of the crew are lost.

The Blitz

Hull is the target of 130 aircraft, many of them minelayers. They operate along the coast from St Abbs Head to Flamborough Head. Many houses are severely damaged. 7 people are killed and 24 injured.

Diplomatic Relations

• Britain breaks off diplomatic relations with Rumania, which has become a satellite of the Axis powers.
• Pres Roosevelt send James B. Conant, Pres of Harvard University, to Britain to exchange views on war technology.

North Africa

Apart from the oases of Kufra and Jarabub, the whole of Cyrenaica is under British control. In the battle just ending the Italians have lost 150,000 men (130,000) of them prisoners), 850 guns, 400 tanks and thousands of trucks and other motor vehicles. The British have lost 500 dead, about 1,400 wounded and 55 missing; they have advanced 500 miles employing no more than 2 divisions, about 31,000 men.