Air Operations, North Africa

German Stukas damage the British monitor Terror in the Benghazi harbor. She sinks in tow the next day.

Battle of the Atlantic

• U-96 sinks the British tanker Scottish Standard (6999t), straggling behind Convoy OB-287 after being damage by a German air attack on the 20th, south of Iceland. 5 of her crew are lost; 39 survivors are picked up by the British destroyer Montgomery.
• The Italian submarine Marcello is sunk by the British destroyer Montgomery west of the Hebrides.
• U-108 sinks the Dutch steamer Texelstroom (1617t) 25 miles off Iceland with the loss of her entire crew of 25.

South African soldiers with a captured Italian flag after the occupation of Moyale, February 22, 1941.

South African Troops After Occupying Moyale

German Raiders

The battlecruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau sink 5 ships from a scattered convoy east of Newfoundland. The ships lost are the British steamer Kantara (3240t), the British steamer Trelawney (4690t) with the loss of 1 crewman, the British steamer A. D. Huff (6200t) with the loss of 2, the British tanker Lustrous (6156t) and the British tanker Harlesden (5500t) with the loss of 7 of her crew. All the survivors from the 5 ships are made prisoners of war.

The German battlecruiser Gneisenau is firing her guns on enemy vessels, pictured from her following sister ship Scharnhorst.

German Battlecruiser Gneisenau Firing Her Guns

Greece

The British leaders Eden, Dill, Wavell and Cunningham are in Athens to meet King George and Premier Korizis in regards to sending aid to the Greeks.