Battle of the Atlantic

• The Italian submarine Barbarigo sinks the British steamer Macon (5135t) west of Casablanca with the loss of 28 on board. 21 are rescued.
• The German steamer Erlangen (6101t) scuttles herself when she is intercepted by the British light cruiser Newcastle southeast of the River Plate.

Eastern Front

The German 18th Army pushes back the Soviet 8th Army in Estonia.

The Southwestern Front withdraws on Uman as III Panzer Corps moves east along the Dnieper, and XIV and XLVIII Panzer Corps advance south toward Pervomaisk to link up with the 11th and 17th Armies and trap the 6th and 12th Armies around Uman (these formations have now been assigned to the Southern Front.[MORE]

Japan, Policy

Foreign Minister Toyoda tells US Ambassador Grew that Japan is being encircled by hostile forces in southeast Asia, and he compares Japan's moves in Indochina to the British occupation of Syria.

Malta

During the night Italian assault vessel crews try to enter the harbor at Valletta with explosive punts and piloted torpedoes ('pigs'). They are spotted before they can line up on their targets. 33 men are involved in the operation; 15 are killed and 18 taken prisoner.

Occupied Poland

Anti-Jewish pogrom in Lvov. With German encouragement, and working from prepared lists, civilians and police assault with clubs, knives and axes any Jew whom they encounter. Over the next 3 days 2,000 Jews will be murdred in a pogrom known as the 'Petliura Days', in commemoration of Simon (Semyon) Petliura, the Ukrainian premier who organized massive pogroms against the Jews in 1919 and was murdered in exile by a Jew in 1926.

Ukrainian Pogroms Against Jews

Occupied by the Germans in June 1941, Lvov became the site of brutal Ukrainian pogroms against Jews from July 25 to 27, 1941. They were called the Petliura Days because they commemorated the death of Ukrainian Premier Simon Petliura, who orchestrated pogroms against Jews in 1919. 2,000 Jews were killed in the July 1941 pogroms.