Hitler starts to prepare for the period after Barbarossa, ordering his generals to plan for an assault on Gibraltar and operations in Turkey and Iran.

The Wehrmacht High Command announced:-

German aerial combat formations operating out of newly-won bases in the Mediterranean, have successfully attacked the British fuel tank depots and port installations of Haifa, where they have caused a number of explosions and fires.

U.S.S.R.: Red Army units from the Transbaikal are transferred westwards but are not put on alert.

ERITREA: The port of Assab is captured by Indian troops landed by the Royal Navy yesterday (Operation Chronometer).

JAPAN: At a Liaison conference between army and navy, Naval Chief of Staff Nagano Osami astounded his colleagues be vehemently calling for the Southward Advance. ...He and the navy's powerful "First Committee" simply were anxious to move before the American navy's huge "two-ocean" building programme was completed. (201)(Will O'Neil)