Air Operations, Aleutians

Due to bad weather, 11th Air Force aircraft are unable to conduct scheduled bombing attacks against Attu. However, 6 28th Composite Bomb Group B-24s and 5 B-25s are able to provide direct support for US Army troops. 1 re-supply B-24 crashes into a mountain. 2 P-40 fighter-bombers mount a dusk attack against Kiska.

Air Operations, Bismarcks

• 43rd Heavy Bomb Group B-17s and 90th Heavy Bomb Group B-24s attack Rabaul-area airfields.
• V Bomber Command B-25s attack the Gasmata airfield on New Britain. B-17s and B-24s mount inividual attacks against various targets on New Britain.

Air Operations, East Indies

• V Bomber Command B-25s attack Penfoei, Timor.
• 43rd Heavy Bomb Group B-17s and 90th Heavy Bomb Group B-24s mount individual attacks against various targets in the East Indies.

Air Operations, Europe

125 US bombers attack Kiel. 3 U-boats are sunk.

• 6 Mitchells are sent to bomb the steelworks at Ijmuiden but are recalled.

• 5 OTU Wellingtons drop leaflets over France without a loss.
• RAF bombers continue to pound strategic bases in southern Italy.

303rd BG, 358th BS, 'Hells Angels'

• 109 1st Heavy Bomb Wing B-17s and 17 2nd Heavy Bomb Wing B-24s attack the kiel shipyard at high noon with more than 291 tons of bombs.
• 3 B-17s and 8 B-24s are lost, 27 B-17s and 9 B-24s damages; 3 crewmen are killed, 17 wounded, 81 missing

• In its first combat mission of the war, the specially trained 322nd Medium Bomb Group sends 12 B-26s to attack the power plant at Ijmuiden at very low level dropping 43 500-puund bombs.
• 10 planes are damage; 7 crewmen wounded

NASAF B-17s attack Civitavecchia.

Air Operations, New Guinea

43rd Heavy Bomb Group B-17s and 90th Heavy Bomb Group B-24s mount individual attacks against various targets. In the last of a series of Japanese Navy air attack missions going back to March 11, a total of 40 G4M 'Betty' bombers and A6M Zeros attack the Oro Bay-Dobodura area. P-38s of the 49th Fighter Group’s 8th Fighter Squadron bring down a reconnaissance plane near Buna at 0935 hours, and 11 'Bettys', and 10 Zeros near Oro Bay between 1030 and 1045 hours. 1 P-38 and its pilot are lost.

Air Operations, Sardinia

• NAAF P-38s escorting an attack on Cagliari by RAF Wellington bombers attack a tunnel, a barracks, an airdrome, a power station, and several factories. 3 Axis aircraft are downed about 1300 hours by 82nd Fighter Group P-38s.
• NASAF B-26s attack Porto Ponte Romano.
• NASAF B-25s and escorting P-38s attack Olbia and claim the destruction of 3 Axis vessels.

Air Operations, Sicily

1 Luftwaffe medium bomber is downed over Gela at 1300 hours by a 14th Fighter Group P-38.

Air Operations, Solomons

• During the early evening, XIII Bomber Command B-24s mount individual attacks against the airfield at Ballale, the Kahili airfield on Bougainville, and the Munda Point airfield on New Georgia.
• During the night, B-17s attack the Kahili airfield on Bougainville.

Battle of the Atlantic

The German submarine U-657 is sunk by naval land-based aircraft (VP-84) in the North Atlantic area.

U-657

Italy, Home Front

The Under-Secretaries for War, Air and Navy announce anti-invasion measures.

Mediterranean

Pantelleria is blockaded.

Wrecks of German Junkers Ju-52s

Pacific

• The Australian hospital ship Centaur is sunk off Brisbane by Japanese submarine I-177 despite being clearly marked as a medical vessel. 268 people are killed with only 63 survivors.
• The US motor torpeod boats PT-150 and PT-152 sink the Japanese submarine RO-102 in the Vitiaz Strait, New Guinea.

Australian Hospital Ship Centaur

Poster Depicting the Hospital Ship Centaur Being Attacked