RAF Bomber Command: 2 Group: Blenheims of 82 Squadron attack six ships off Le Havre, leaving two 3,000-ton tankers ablaze.

Eight aircraft of 21 Sqn. attack ships off the Dutch Frisians. One destroyer is damaged. They then attack troops, gun emplacements and guns along the Dutch coast. One aircraft is lost.

The new 'King George V' class battleship HMS Prince of Wales is completed.

Civilian casualties of the Blitz this month are 4,259 people killed (including 598 children) and 5,557 injured.

FRANCE: The RAF sent 109 bombers to attack the German battlecruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau in the port of Brest last night; no hits were scored.

GERMANY: Daily Key note from the Reich Press Chief:

We must wait for reports of Italian losses in the sea battle in the Aegean Sea [before issuing news about it]. If further reports arrive concerning the British aircraft carrier that we crippled, we must not mention [in press reports] that the carrier in question was once again the 'Ark Royal'

The final individual returns from the 1939 census are distributed to the local registration offices for cross checking against the Volkskartei. Much of the information is out of date.

SWITZERLAND: Private Coe of the British Army Dental Corps arrives on neutral soil. The first escapee from a German PoW camp.

GREECE: Athens: The British Air Force in Greece reported:

On Sunday British bombers made successful raids on Elbasan (Albania) and its environs. Enemy fighter planes tried to stop our aircraft, but gave up the battle after one enemy fighter was brought to crash. Our armed reconnaissance flights in the Tepeleni area of Albania also went off successfully. All British aircraft returned to base.

MEDITERRANEAN SEA: Cruiser HMS Bonaventure with a Mediterranean Fleet cruiser force escorts a convoy from Greece to Egypt and is is torpedoed and sunk by Italian submarine Ambra 90 miles south of Crete at 33 20N 26 35E. There are 310 survivors. (Alex Gordon)(108)

Submarine HMS Rorqual, off northeast Sicily, torpedoes and sinks submarine 'Capponi'.

NORTH AFRICA:50 tanks of the Afrika Korps strike at the Mersa El Brega gap between the desert and the coast just east of El Agheila.

The forward positions of 13 Corps were occupied by scattered elements of the 2nd Armoured Division, which were soon passed through. The British seemed convinced that Rommel was attacking in overwhelming strength, although the Germans had concentrated all their tanks into one force, which consisted of the 5th Light, with the 5th Panzer Regiment, with Panzer IIIs and IVs as its strongest element, and two Italian divisions, the Ariete and the Brescia.

Wavell and Neame, informed by Ultra of the state of Rommel's forces had assumed he would wait until all the Afrika Korps had arrived.

Tripoli, LIBYA: The German 15th Panzer Division lands.

GREENLAND:  USCGC Cayuga (CGC-54), arrives at Godthaab with the U.S. South Greenland Survey Expedition, composed of State, Treasury, War, and Navy Department representatives. The expedition's mission is to locate sites for airfields, seaplane bases, radio and meteorological stations and aids to navigation in Danish Greenland.   

BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC: 

Losses: 63 ships of 365,000 tons.

5 German U-boats - including three of the U-boat arm's most experienced Commanders.

Merchant Shipping War in Europe.

Motor gun-boats are entering servive to combat E-boat attacks on East Coast convoys. Improved MTBs are also being built to attack German coastal shipping. This marks the first step in the building up of Coastal Forces.

Losses: 73 ships of 153,000 tons.

MERCHANT SHIPPING WAR: Losses- 2 ships of 12,000 tons.