Air Operations, Algeria

A 350th Fighter Group P-38 downs 2 Bf-109s at sea 10 miles northwest of Bougie at 1306 hours.

Air Operations, Bismarcks

• 3rd Light Bomb Group A-20s attack targets in the Gasmata area.
• P-38s of the 475th Fighter Group’s 432d Fighter Squadron down 4 Japanese fighters at sea near Arawe at 1320 hours.

Air Operations, CBI

• 341st Medium Bomb Group B-25s attack the viaduct at Gokteik.
• During the night, 6 7th Heavy Bomb Group B-24s sow mines in the Rangoon River.

Air Operations, Central Pacific

Engineers complete work on a 5,000-foot runway on Nonomea Island in the Ellice Islands, and 10 G4M 'Betty' bombers from Tarawa drop 20 bombs on the new base. Damage is slight, but 5 US servicemen are killed and 7 are wounded.

Air Operations, Europe

105 1st Bomb Division B-17s attack the Brussels/Evere Airdrome with 315 tons of bombs about 850 hours.

• Due to a botched rendezvous, only 81 of 144 3rd Medium Bomb Wing B-26s dispatched attack marshalling yards at Lille and St.Pol-sur-Mer between 0854 and 0858 hours.
• 58 of 147 3rd Bomb Division B-17s dispatched overcome bad weather to attack V-weapons sites at Watten with 116 tons of bombs between 0820 and 0854 hours.

• Only 3 of the 29 2nd Bomb Division B-24s dispatched are able to attack the Bergen/Alkmaar Airdrome through bad weather, but 19 other B-24s attack an Axis convoy at sea off Texel Island.
• While providing escort for 3rd Bomb Division B-17s, 56th Fighter Group P-47s down 2 Bf-109s near Texel Island at 0900 hours.

• XII Bomber Command B-17s attack two of the satellite fields of the Foggia Airdrome complex.
• XII Bomber Command B-25s and B-26s attack roads and bridges behind the BAYTOWN battle area.
• NATAF A-20s and B-25s attack a gun battery and a roadblock near Catanzaro and the Crotone Airdrome.
• During the night, NATAF A-20s support a British 8th Army landing at Pizzo.

Air Operations, New Guinea

• V Bomber Command B-24s and 22nd Medium Bomb Group B-26s attack targets in the Lae area. B-25s strafe road traffic between Lae and the Markham Valley.
• 52nd Troop Carrier Wing C-47s continue to airlift an Australian Army division from Port Moresby to Nadzab Airfield.
• Japanese bombers mounting an attack against Morobe are thwarted by V Fighter Command P-38s and a 49th Fighter Group P-38 downs a Ki-43 'Oscar' fighter between Lae and Salamaua at 1415 hours.

Air Operations, Sardinia

12th Air Force P-40s attack the landing ground at Pabillonis and barges off Portoscuso.

Air Operations, Solomons

2 42nd Medium Bomb Group B-25s attack barges and a supply depot near Ringa Cove.

Battle of the Atlantic

U-669 is sunk by Wellington 'W' of No 407 Squadron RCAF. The aircraft was investigating a radar contact when is sights the U-boat. Five depth charges are dropped are dropped around the conning tower resulting in the demise of thei U-boat.

U-669

Diplomatic Relations

Correspondence is published concerning the US refusal to supply Lease-Lend aid to Argentina.

Eastern Front

The Germans evacuate Stalino. The remnants of Army Group A, withdrawn from the Caucasus through the tactical skill of von Kleist, is grouped with von Manstein's Army Group South.

Boldin's 50th Army launches an assault toward Bryansk but is slowed by fierce resistance from the LV Corps.

The XXX Corps of 1st Panzer Army begins to withdraw from Stalino, on the extreme right wing of the army.

German 88-mm Antitank Gun PaK 43

Ellice Islands

The airfield on Nanomea, just completed by the Americans, is bombed by the Japanese.

Italy

Troops of the British 8th Army advance into Calabria on the Nicastro-Catanzaro road and in the north towards Pizzo.

Wounded American Soldier