London: Churchill to Roosevelt:

"...It seems highly probable that 3 or 4 U-boats are working against our African trade route. A number of ships have been sunk in recent convoys, and the battleship Malaya has been torpedoed while escorting the latest convoy. We would be much obliged if she could be repaired in the United States yard. She is now steaming thither at 14 knots."

LIBYA: Against Chancellor Adolf Hitler's explicit orders the Afrika Korps with components of the 3rd Reconnaissance Detachment, reoccupies El Agheila. The British quickly withdrew to Mersa Brega, 30 miles to the northeast. Lieutenant General Erwin Rommel, commander of the Afrika Korps,  records: "The garrison, which consisted only of a weak force, had strongly mined the whole place and withdrew skilfully in face of our attack." but he is led to wonder if the British are as formidable as first thought.

BRITISH SOMALILAND: British forces drive the last Italian garrison from British Somaliland. 

TURKEY: Ankara: A Turkish-Soviet communiqué is issued promising neutrality if either should be attacked.