Air Operations, Bismarcks

• V Bomber Command B-25s attack the Cape Gloucester airfield on New Britain.
• B-24s mount individual attacks on various targets across New Britain.

Air Operations, CBI

• 6 51st Fighter Group P-40 fighter-bombers attack Kwitu.

• 8 23Rd Fighter Group P-40 fighter-bombers based at the airfield at Kunming, China) attack rail, road, and river transporation targets of opportunity across northern French Indochina.

Air Operations, New Guinea

• 3rd Light Bomb Group A-20s attack Labu.
• V Bomber Command B-24s attack various targets in northeastern New Guinea.

Air Operations, Solomons

AirSols light bombers and fighters attack the Munda Point airfield on New Georgia.

Aleutians

• Japanese troops on Attu Island, alerted a week before against the danger of an American landing by reports from the Japanese intelligence service, are stood down, convinced the Americans have cancelled the operation in view of adverse weather conditions.
• A collision between ships damages the destroyer MacDonough (DD-351) and the light minelayer Sicard (DM-21) in the Aleutian Islands area.

Eastern Front

Hitler gives his consent for Operation ZITADELLE (CITADEL), the attack on Kursk, to go ahead despite news of Soviet defensive preparations. Later Hitler defers the starting date from June 13 to early July in order to allow extra Panther tanks to be supplied to the attacking units.

Hitler postpones CITADEL until June 13. Every day gives the Red Army more time to prepare its defense and lessen the likelihoos of a German victory, just as Manstein had stated while the plans were being drawn up.

North Africa

The 6th Arm Div takes Hammam Lif and now goes for Hammamet and Korba on the east coast of the Cape Bon peninsula. The plan is to join up with the units of Montgomery's 8th Army advancing from Enfidaville. For the Axis troops there is no hope of evacuation and wholesale surrenders begin.

In the British 1st Army's IX Corps area, the 6th Armored Div forces the Hamman Lif defile in the morning and moves rapidly to Hammamet, cutting off the Cap Bon Peninsula. The advance is continued toward Bou Ficha.

United States, Command

Lt-Gen Jacob L. Devers takes over as commander of the European Theater of Operations, succeeding Lt-Gen Frank M. Andrews, who was killed in a plane crash on Iceland.