Air Operations, Bismarcks

V Bomber Command B-25s attack motor launches off Cape Gloucester.

Air Operations, Central Pacific

During the night, B-24s of the XIII Bomber Command’s 307th Heavy Bomb Group attack Nauru Island, a 2,700-mile round trip.

Air Operations, Marshalls

During the night, VII Bomber Command B-24s based at Funafuti reconnoiter and photograph Jaluit Atoll.

Air Operations, Mediterranean

The British and Americans step up their air attacks on Messina in preparation for Operation HUSKY, the invasion of Sicily.

Air Operations, New Guinea

V Bomber Command B-25s attack motor launches off Finschhafen.

Air Operations, Solomons

• XIII Bomber Command B-24s attack the Kahili airfield on Bougainville.
• 42nd Medium Bomb Group B-25s attack Ballale and barges in Wilson Strait.

Australia, Home Front

With the Japanese defense having collapsed on Guadalcanal and Papua, Prime Minister John Curtin announces that Australia is no longer threatened by invasion.

Britain, Command

The British government announces that Field Marshal Sir Archibald Wavell is to be the next Viceroy of India in succession to Lord Linlithgow in October. Gen Sir Claude Auchinleck becomes Command-in-Chief in India immeadiately but a separate East Asia Command is to be created. By these 'promotions' Churchill is planning to remove Wavell and Auchinleck from important military responsibility because he has lost confidence in them.

Solomons

The headquarters of the US 43rd Div issues detailed instructions for the complex troop movements connected with the invasion of New Georgia.