Air Operations, Aleutians

• 3 28th Composite Bomb Group B-25s, 6 343rd Fighter Group P-38s, and 17 343rd Fighter Group P-40s mount 5 separate attacks against Kiska.
• 2 Patrol Wing 4 PBYs attack a small Japanese Navy convoy at sea and force it to withdraw to the Kurile Islands.

Air Operations, Bismarcks

43rd Heavy Bomb Group B-17 attacks the Arawe airfield on New Britain.

Air Operations, Europe

• 502 aircraft are sent to bomb Frankfurt. Included in the total are 144 Wellingtons, 136 Lancasters, 124 Halifaxes and 98 Stirlings.
• Complete cloud cover over the target failure again leads to a failed raid. Reports from the ground indicate a few bombs in suburbs south of the Main River.
• 8 Wellingtons, 5 Lancasters, 5 Stirlings and 3 Halifaxes are lost.

• 7 Stirlings lay mines in the Frisians and there are 4 OTU sorties.
• There are no losses.

Air Operations, Mediterranean

• A force of 85(84?) Liberator bombers raids La Maddalena, Sardinia sinking the heavy cruiser Trieste and damaging the Gorizia.
• P-38s and B-25s scatter 2 large formations of German and Italian transport aircraft over the Sicilian Channel. About 20 are shot down.

Air Operations, New Guinea

• 43rd Heavy Bomb Group B-17s and 90th Heavy Bomb Group B-24s attack Wewak.
• B-24s attack shipping off Alexishafen and Wewak.
• B-17s attack Cape Boram and Kairiru Island.
• V Bomber Command B-25s attack port facilities at Bobia and Uligan.

Air Operations, Solomons

3 XIII Bomber Command B-24s attack the Kahili airfield on Bougainville.

North Africa

The leading elements of 8th Army enter Sfax as the Axis retreat continues apace. The British IX Corps only now succeeds in breaking out from Fondouk Pass too late to cut the retreat. Gen Montgomery tells his troops, 'Forward to Tunis and drive the enemy into the sea.'

Gen Alexander's draft plan of April 8th for the final offensive in Tunisia, Operation VULCAN, if officially approved. The British 1st Army is to make the main attack on Tunis. The British 8th Army is to exert pressure to the south and cut off Cap Bon from Tunis. The US II Corps, from positions on the northern flank of the British 1st Army, is to drive on Bizerte in conjuntion with British 1st Army's drive on Tunis. The French XIX Corps is to operate on the extreme southern flank of the British 1st Army under 1st Army command.

The Southeast Algerian Command, pinched out after the junction of the US II Corps with the British 8th Army, is dissolved. Its components are to operate under the French XIX Corps. The IX Corps is to be under the command of the British 1st Army.

The IX Corps' 6th Armored Div drives quickly toward Kairouan, overcoming resistance south of the town. The US II Corps' Combat Command A, 1st Armored Div, advancing northward through Rebaou Pass, makes contact with the 34th Div east of Fondouk.

The British 8th Army's XXX Corps takes Sfax and continues northward to La Hencha.

In the British 1st Army area, the French XIX Corps now controls Djeloula Pass, between Ousseltia and Kairouan. The V Corps continues to clear the heights dominating the Bédja-Medjez el Bab road.

Pacific

The US Submarine Triton (SS-201) is reported as presumed lost in the Pacific Ocean area.

USS Triton at Dutch Harbor, Alaska, 16 July 1942