Corvette HMCS Bittersweet commissioned on Tyne and proceeded to Tobermoray for workups.

GERMANY: Hitler orders the Wehrmacht to eliminate all commissars - Communist Party officials - in the planned assault on the USSR; he says: "Any German soldier who breaks international law will be pardoned. Russia did not take part in the Hague Convention and thus has no rights under it."

MEDITERRANEAN SEA: The British carriers Furious and Ark Royal deliver more Hurricanes to Malta.

PALESTINE: Australian 7th Division is in position on the Palestine-Syria border. The Australian Official Historian observes, “it was the first time in this war, or the one before, that British troops had hidden, like Germans, near a peaceful frontier, ready to make a surprise invasion”. On the French side at the coast, elements of 24th Colonial, 22nd Algerian and 6th French Foreign Legion Regiments are entrenched, supported by seven battalions of artillery. The British invasion force has little reliable intelligence and only 1:200,000 scale maps. Some information is provided by Palestinian Jews attached to the British Army. Air support to the invasion is initially inadequate with 70 aircraft versus 100 French. As the invasion progresses it will be enhanced, eventually including: 80 Sqn RAF (Hurricanes) based at Haifa, 3 Sqn RAAF (Curtiss Tomahawk IIBs) based at Jenin, 208 Sqn RAF"> RAF (Hurricanes) at Aqir, 203 Sqn RAF (Blenheim fighters), 803 and 806 Sqns FAA (Fulmars). Bomber support will consist of 84 and 11 Squadrons RAF (Blenheim) and 815 Squadron FAA (Swordfish). Finally, 'X' Flight RAF is formed at Habbaniya this day from the Gladiators remaining after the Iraqi Revolt. Information on French air units TBA. (Michael Alexander)

CANADA: Lt John Alexander Davidson RCNVR awarded DSC.

Arrived Halifax from builders - corvettes HMCS Arvida and Galt.

Minesweeper HMCS Ingonish laid down North Vancouver.

NEWFOUNDLAND: Departed St John's with Convoy HX 131 for Iceland, Corvettes HMCS Pictou and Rimouski.