UNITED KINGDOM: Destroyer HMS Wren (D 88) is bombed and lost off Aldeburgh, Sussex on the east coast at 52 10N, 02 06E, as she gives Anti-Aircraft cover to minesweepers. He-111s of Bomber Wing (Kampfgeschwader) 53 (KG 53) took the credit. (Alex Gordon)(108)

Destroyer HMS Codrington D 65) is sunk in an air raid on the port of Dover. The ferocity of this attack (another destroyer and a sloop were also damaged) caused the Admiralty to abandon the use of Dover as an advanced base for destroyers. (Alex Gordon)(108)

RAF Bomber Command: 4 Group (Whitley). No ops due to bad weather.

RAF Fighter Command: Weather, clear, then stormy. Luftwaffe attacks shipping. 4 Luftwaffe aircraft destroyed, 1 RAF aircraft lost.

Bombs fall for the first time on Faversham and Sheppey in Kent.

17 HE bombs dropped on Canvey Island, Essex.

About 30 Ju87s of I/StG 77 were dispatched to intercept a convoy off Swanage, escorted by JG 27. Three Hurricanes of 238 Sqn. arrived just as the Stukas were peeling off into the attack and Flg. Off Davis destroyed one, by the time the second wave of Stukas arrived three Hurricanes and the Spitfires of 609 Sqn. were protecting the convoy.

Thundery weather delayed any further attacks until late afternoon, when Dover was hit. The barracks and marine station were hit and four direct hits on HMS Codrington causes its boilers to explode. This event and the discovery that the Germans are building emplacements for long-range, heavy-calibre guns near Calais, forces the Admiralty to move the destroyer flotilla from Dover to the Nore.

At 18:46 Hurricanes of 615 Sqn. down an air-sea rescue He59 off the Foreland.

A night attack highlighted the inadequacy of defences and the vulnerability of the west. 20 bombers had operated over Ireland and Anglesey, while others were busy over the south-east dropping 60 He’s and an oil bomb on Gillingham as well as bombs on Maidstone and Sevenoaks.

GERMANY: Bavaria: Bulgaria’s Prime Minister confers with Hitler at Berchtesgaden; yesterday Romania’s Premier did the same.

CANADA: Corvette HMCS Collingwood launched Collingwood, Ontario.

Patrol vessel HMCS Cleopatra assigned to Quebec City, Province of Quebec.

U.S.A.: The first of 81 Grumman Martlet Is (F4F-3 - US designation) is delivered to the British Purchasing Commission.

Warner Brothers releases a cartoon entitled "A Wild Hare" the first cartoon in which Bugs Bunny is fully recognizable.

The motion picture "They Drive by Night" is released. Directed by Raoul Walsh, this drama about truck driving brothers from A.I. Bezzerides' novel stars George Raft, Ann Sheridan, Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart, Alan Hale and Roscoe Karns.