Air Operations, Egypt

6 57th Fighter Group P-40s make their unit's combat debut when they escort RAF light bombers in an attack against El Fuka Airdrome. In a brief melee with 5 Luftwaffe Bf-109s, 1 P-40 is downed off the coast, but the pilot is rescued and returned to duty.

Air Operations, Europe

• 1 Mosquito to Mannheim, but does not bomb

Air Operations, Iceland

Credit for the destruction of the first Luftwaffe warplaned downed by a USAAF fighter in the war is shared by a P-40 pilot with the Iceland Aire Command's 33rd Fighter Squadron and a P-38 pilot with the 1st Fighter Group's 27th Fighter Squadron which is en route to England. The victim is an FW-200 Condor recon-bomber which crashed in the sea 9 miles off Iceland.

Air Operations, Libya

• The 98th Heavy Bomb Group B-24s attack the harbor at Tobruk and damage 1 ship.
• During the night, USAMEAF B-24s attack the harbor at Tobruk.

Air Operations, New Guinea

5th Air Force bombers attack Japanese ships near Gona.

Air Operations, Solomons

3 Rabaul-based G4M 'Betty' bombers photograph Guadalcanal's captured runway by circling about out of range of the island's 90mm antiaircraft guns.

Battle of the Atlantic

The unarmed US freighter California (5441t) is torpedoed, shelled and sunk by the Italian submarine Reginaldo Giuliani. All hands abandon ship.

Eastern Front

6th Army, under von Paulus, with support from Hoth's Panzer army, has almost completely cleared the Don Elbow of Russian resistance, but from the German point of view there are still too many potential forces.

Mediterranean

74 German and Italian aircraft, 2 submarines and an MTB make unsuccessful attacks on the British cruiser-destroyer escort force returning to Gibraltar from Operation PEDESTAL.

Brisbane Star proceeded independently to Malta, arriving on August 14, 1942.

Brisbane Star Arrives at Malta

3000 army personnel are now working night and day to unload the supplies delivered by the newly-arrived convoy. All possible vehicles are engaged in the task, code-named ‘Operation CERES’. In addition, 1500 army personnel are still working on the aerodromes for servicing and refuelling aircraft, and repairing runways as required to keep Malta’s fighters in the air and protect the precious cargoes.

Unloading Supplies from the Newly-Arrived Convoy

Pacific

The US submarine Seawolf (SS-197) sinks the Japanese merchant passenger-cargo ship Hachigen Maru (3113t) in Sibutu Passage near Borneo.