FRANCE: Corvette FS Lobelia commissioned.

GERMANY: In Führer's headquarter the German leaders plan how the Soviet territory is to be divided after the final victory. All the 'booty' is to be German, even if initially Germany is to stress the liberation of peoples from Soviet yoke. Ukraine and Crimean peninsula is to be German. Finland can have East Karelia, but the Kola peninsula is for Germany. Hitler also orders that the preparations for the annexation of Finland into Greater Germany should be started in utmost secrecy.

U-701 commissioned.

U-408 launched.

U.S.S.R.: The Germans reach the outskirts of Smolensk, and take Stalin's son, artillery regiment Lieutenant Jacob Dzhugashvili, prisoner.

Finnish troops take up positions at the northern end of Lake Ladoga.

EQUATORIAL AFRICA: Brazzaville: General de Gaulle repudiates the Saint Jean D'Acre convention which made no mention of the Free French.

JAPAN: Prince Konoye resigns as Japanese Prime Minister. Foreign Minister Matsuoka has advocated joining Germany in the attack against the USSR. He will not be in the cabinet when it is reformed on the 18th.

U.S.A.: While anchored off the Staten Island, New York quarantine station, the transport USS West Point (AP-23) (ex SS America) takes 137 Italian and 327 German citizens, from the consulates of those nations in the United States which had been closed, on board and gets underway at 1455 hours local, bound for Lisbon, Portugal. USS West Point was granted safe-conduct for the voyage by the British.

Baseball, the New York Yankees travel from Chicago to Cleveland, Ohio, to play the Cleveland Indians in League Park. Yankee center fielder Joe DiMaggio extends his hitting streak to 56 consecutive games by going 3-for-4 against Cleveland pitchers Al Milnar and Joe Krakauskas.