RAF Bomber Command: 4 Group. Leaflets and Reconnaissance - Ruhr. 10 Sqn. Six aircraft. Two returned early due to icing. Opposition heavy. One aircraft shadowed by enemy aircraft but was not attacked.

RAF Fighter Command: Cromer Knoll lightship is attacked by a lone Luftwaffe aircraft.

The Times..

It might be news to many of you that London streets are now regularly filled with body-snatchers in a flap. Or that, if they were body-snatchers from north of the border, they might cool off with some bottled sunshine.

These are just a couple of the phrases coined by the men in Britain's armed services. The body-snatchers are first-aid workers, and when in a flap they are working in an air raid. The bottled sunshine is beer.

Parachuting is an activity that has fired the men's imaginations. The 'chute itself is known as bag by some, and is used for a brolly hop by pilots, or bus drivers, as bomber pilots are called. Unlucky pilots ditch in the herring pond or the gravy (the Atlantic) or in the drink (the Channel).

Amorous activities have produced one of the richest sources of servicemen's slang. Girlfriends are known as charmers, lush bints, popsies or pushers. Those who are seeing a girl regularly are said to be nibbling.

On an evening off men get into their swanks (civilian clothes) and take the liberty bus into town to pitch a woo. Those separated from their lovers receive yum yum by post if they're lucky. An amorous couple may be described as kittens in a basket.

Friends, too, are described in a variety of inventive ways. A sailor's chum is his brassy or sprog. When they have a disagreement they part brassrags, each taking his cleaning rags back to his own quarters.

During time off, bottled sunshine (alternatively known as brown food) gets you horizontal, stitched, shot up or shot to ribbons. Char (tea) the next morning can be accompanied by gunfire - biscuits so-called because they crackle loudly when bitten.

FRANCE: The French airborne units, the "groupes francs" are disbanded and the men returned to their infanterie de l'air companies. (Stuart Millis)

TURKEY: Ankara: All large Turkish steamers in foreign waters are ordered to return home as soon as possible.