RAF Fighter Command: Luftwaffe aircraft attacked shipping off the east coast. One enemy aircraft was destroyed. One merchant ship and several trawlers were sunk.

A national campaign was launched today to utilize almost all of 120 million tons of household waste that are disposed of every year. Scrap iron and steel are urgently needed for conversion into armour plate for guns, ships and tanks. "Old bedsteads, bicycles, fire-irons - we want them all," said the chairman of the scrap merchants federation. The National Farmers Union is to arrange the collection from farms of the many discarded ploughs, harrows, scythes, drills, milk pails and other rusting implements. Waste paper is urgently needed for pulping to save imports. The paper controller is appealing for people to bundle their newspapers, wrapping paper, cardboard and old letters beside the dustbin. There is also an appeal for kitchen waste to be kept separately from tins and bottles, because it is wanted for pigswill. Even bones are wanted for grinding up as fertilizer.

Corvette HMS Fleur de Lys laid down.

NORTH SEA: U-15 sunk in the North Sea at Hoofden after being rammed in error by German torpedo boat Iltis. 25 dead (all hands lost).

GERMANY: Berlin: Heydrich orders more expulsions of Jews from the Reich to Lublin in eastern Poland. Himmler authorises the deportation of 30,000 Gypsies.

On the seventh anniversary of the Nazi regime, Hitler speaks at the Berlin Sportpalast. He demands Lebensraum (living space) for Germans and ridicules British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill, and French Premier Edouard Daladier. He notes that, since "they started the war, ...they will get all the war they want."  

SPAIN: U-25 was refuelled by the German tanker Thalia - first occurrence of this type in a Spanish port since the war began.

GIBRALTAR:  U.S. freighters SS Examelia, detained since 20 January, and SS Cold Harbor detained since 27 January, are released by British authorities.