UNITED KINGDOM: In a broadcast, Churchill says that Britain has no quarrel with the Russians but vows to "follow this war wherever it leads."

IRAQ:Habbaniya airfield: Shortly before sunrise, Hugh MacPhail took off with his co-pilot, Flg Off Burton, and two RAF photographers who were detailed to take additional photographs of the target zone using hand held cameras. They flew over the Iranian plateau and came out over the Caspian Sea near Resht. After they had been flying for an hour, the outlines of the Baku Peninsula, a vast oil-rich industrial area, appeared below them wreathed in clouds of smoke. For an entire hour MacPhail circled the target at an altitude of 23,000 feet. The Lockheed flew over the Soviet oil supply centre six times, unmolested either by fighter planes and anti-aircraft artillery, and took dozens of photographs. That afternoon they were back in Habbaniya after the ten hour mission.

GERMANY: Hitler publicly orders priority to be given to transporting arms to Russia, while privately planning to attack the USSR next year.

CHINA: Nanking: A breakaway group of Chinese Nationalists led by the expelled foreign minister, Wang Ching-wei, today established a rival Kuomintang in Japanese-occupied Nanking. The Reformed Kuomintang gained immediate recognition from Japan, Germany and Italy, but none from the Allies. The new government has agreed to Japanese troops remaining in China. Persuading a politician of Wang Ching-wei's stature to lead the new government is a propaganda coup for Japan, which has now dissolved its two much ridiculed puppet governments in China and placed them under his control.