Diplomatic Relations

Japan protests to the Soviet Union about the passage of American war supplies throught Vladivostock.

Eastern Front

There is a brief, unsuccessful Soviet counterattack against the German positions near Velikiye Luki.

Finnish forces are now only 7 miles from Viipuri.

As the Red Army retreats from Tallinn, German troops come under heavy fire from Soviet ships in the harbor, causing many casualties. Meanwhile, the German 18th Army and 4th Panzer Group begin their assault on Leningrad.

The German LVII Panzer Corps continues to mop up in Velikiye Luki, taking 34,000 prisoners and 300 artillery pieces. The XXIV Panzer and the 2nd Army reach the Desna, trapping the Soviet 5th Army west of the river. Though the XLVII Panzer Corps is overextended and its flanks threatened, the advance of the German tanks is endangering the northern flank of the whole Southwestern Front.

The Soviet 6th Army assaults the 13th Panzer Div at Dnepropetrovsk.

Hungarian forces take over Kamenets-Podolsk, arrest 14,000 Jews and turn them over to SS-Obergruppenführer Friedrich Jeckeln, Higher SS and Police Leader in the south, who promises to kill by September all the Jews whom the Hungarians have turned over. During the next two days the SS Will murder all those arrested in Kamenets-Podolsk.[MORE]

Iran

The British forces, under Maj-Gen Slim, take complete control of the Abadan area while the Soviets, under Gen Novikov, moving down from the north enter Tabriz. The Soviets bomb Teheran.

Because of the British and American need to transport war materials across Iran to the Soviet Union, which would violate Iranian neutrality, Britain and the Soviet Union invade Iran. The Red Army strikes from the northwest and the British across the Iraqi frontier from the west at the head of the Persian Gulf in the south. Resistance quickly collapses. The occupation of Iran will be vital to the Allied cause: Britain, the Ussr and the United States together will move more than 5 million tons of munitions and other war material across Iran to the USSR during the next 4 years.

United States, Policy

The US announces it will send a military mission to Nationalist China to study 'the needs of the Chinese Government for materiel and material' in light of the military situation there.