Air Operations, Aleutians

15 28th Composite Bomb Group B-24s, 12 B-25s, 23 343rd Fighter Group P-38s, 32 P-40s, and 1 F-5 attack Attu and Kiska in 12 separate missions.

Air Operations, CBI

11 341st Medium Bomb Group B-25s attack rail and other targets at Ywataung.

Air Operations, Europe

US bombers raid the Bari airfield in southern Italy.

Air Operations, New Guinea

• 43rd Heavy Bomb Group B-17s attack Madang, Saidor and the airfield at Wewak.
• 90th Heavy Bomb Group B-24s mount individual attacks against the airfields at Finschhafen and Madang.
• 3rd Light Bomb Group A-20s attack ground emplacements at Green Hill.

Air Operations, Solomons

• 4 VMF-213 F4Us returning from a bomber-escort mission encounter 16 Japanese Navy bombers escorted by as many as 30 A6M Zeros. Despite the odds, the F4Us down 5 Zeros near New Georgia at a cost of 2 F4Us with their pilots. As a result of the attack, the Japanese bombers and their escorts withdraw to their bases.
• During the night 3 XIII Bomber Command B-24s attack the Kahili airfield on Bougainville. Later, 12 more B-24s also attack Kahili airfield.

Air Operations, Tunisia

• Bad weather grounds NASAF bombers, but NATAF fighters are able to mount direct-support missions in the battle area.
• NATBF A-20s and B-25s and IX Bomber Command B-25s and P-40s attack a landing ground near Enfidaville and other targets in Axis-held territory.
• USAAF fighter pilots down 2 Axis fighters in the course of at least three separage afternoon actions.

Battle of the Atlantic

This is the first occasion on which aircraft from an escort carrier played a part in the destruction of a U-boat. A Swordfish of 811 NAS from the escort carrier HMS Biter sights U-203 and calls up the destroyer Pathfinder. The destroyer blows the U-boat to the surface in a series of depth-charge attacks.

U-203

North Africa

In the US II Corps area, the 39th Regimental Combat Team, 9th Div, finishes clearing Djebel Aïnchouna. The enemy begins a withdrawal from the 9th Div zone during the night. The 168th Regimental Combat Team, 34th Div, moves forward in conjunction with 1st Div units to its right, taking over mopping-up operations.

The 1st Div follows up the enemy withdrawal on the southern flank of the corps. The 26th Regimental Combat Team occupies Hill 575 early in the day and presses on to Djebel Touta. Advance elements of the 18th Regimental Combat Team reach the western end of Djebel Sidi Meftah. The 6th Armored Infantry takes the previously conteste hills on the southern side of the Tine River and patrols eastward.

In the British 1st Army's V Corps area, Heïdous falls to the 78th Div. The IX Corps continues tank battles in the vicinity of Sebkret el Kourzia without appreciable success within its own zone, but forcing the enemy to withdraw its exposed salient to the right. The French XIX Corps makes substantial progress as the enemy withdraws its salient south of the Bou Arada-Pont-du-Fahs road.

A Puget Sount Navy Yard view of the rebuilt battleship Tennessee, a casualty of the Pearl Harbor attack.

The Rebuilt Battleship Tennessee

Captured Jews Are Led by German Soldiers to the Assembly Point for Deportation

Warsaw Ghetto Uprising – Photo from Jürgen Stroop Report to Heinrich Himmler from May 1943. The original German caption reads: “Forcibly pulled out of dug-outs”. Captured Jews are led by German soldiers to the assembly point for deportation. The woman at the head of the column, on the left, is Yehudit Neyer (born Tolub). She is holding onto the right arm of her mother-in-law. The child is the daughter of Yehudit and her father, Avraham Neyer, who can be seen to the girl’s left. Avraham was a member of the Bund. Of the four, only Avraham survived the war. He currently lives in Israel. Picture taken at Nowolipie street looking East, near intersection with Smocza street. On the right townhouse at Nowolipie 63 further the ghetto wall with a gate, behind the wall one can see burning house Nowolipie 61. On the left burning balcony of the townhouse Nowolipie 66.