UNITED KINGDOM: The Joint Chief of Staffs issue the Pointblank Directive. This sets out the policy for the bombing campaign against Germany and lists  priorities and goals from now through D-Day. These instructions have been obviously influenced by US thinking. The strategic leaders of both the USAAF and RAF are able to interpret these guidelines in such a manner as to be able to run their favoured bombing operations.

Frigate HMCS Annan laid down Aberdeen, Scotland.

GERMANY: The possibility of an Allied invasion of Sicily is discounted in the projections of German High Command (OKW). (Glenn Steinburg)

YUGOSLAVIA: The partisan leader Josip Broz, better known by his nom de guerre, Tito, narrowly escaped capture when his temporary headquarters in a Bosnian farmhouse were surrounded by Axis soldiers, it was revealed today.

Tito heard a warning shout, leapt through a window and spent the next few hours hiding in a ditch listening to the Italian troops in the house. Several of Tito's staff were captured and executed later. The informer can expect little mercy from Tito's men. With a price of 100,000 Reichsmarks (£8,300) on his head, Tito is the most wanted man in Europe and has had several similar escapes.

U.S.S.R.: 700 Russian night bombers attack German positions at Yaroslavl and airfields west of Kursk; 19 are lost.

ITALY: Pantelleria: 

Following attacks during the night of 9/10 June by fighter-bombers, Northwest African Strategic Air Force (NASAF), Northwest Tactical Air Force (NATAF) and USAAF Ninth Air Force aircraft (fighters, and light, medium and heavy bombers) maintain all-day attacks on Pantelleria Island in the Mediterranean; over 1,000 sorties are flown.

This tiny Italian-owned island surrendered today after suffering four days of massive bombing from the air and continual shelling from the sea. For almost 100 hours Pantelleria shook beneath a vast Allied bombardment - with huge formations of Flying Fortresses often bombing for as long as 76 minutes at a time as British cruisers and destroyers poured hundreds of shells onto any available target.

But why such an immense force against such an insignificant target? Strategically, Pantelleria offers an airfield which will bring Allied fighters well within reach of Sicily, 65miles away - assuming that that is the proposed area for the invasion of southern Europe. The shattered harbour cannot be of much use. The real reason, it seems, is the need to bring home the weight of Allied arms to an already nervous and shaky Italian population. A British destroyer almost emptied its ammunition magazine into one of Pantelleria's two forts yesterday before intercepting a radio signal from the garrison. "Help! Send help!," it pleaded.

More than 100,000 leaflets were dropped on the island demanding its unconditional surrender. "The demand was made to save the garrison from unnecessary suffering", said Allied headquarters. "Pantelleria will continue to be subjected to bombing and blockade."

ALGERIA: Algiers: De Gaulle threatens to resign over the reorganization of the French army.

SOLOMON ISLANDS: The Japanese land based air craft from Rabaul mount a major air raid on the installations on Guadalcanal. They suffer heavy losses.

During the day, four IJN Navy Type 1 Attack Bombers, Allied Code Name "Betty," fly down "The Slot" to attack shipping off Guadalcanal but are jumped by four USAAF P-38 Lightnings and four USMC F4U Corsairs. The P-38s shoot down one and the F4Us shoot down the other three. During the night of 10/11 June, 18 Betty bombers attack an Allied convoy on its way to Guadalcanal but score no hits.

Meanwhile, the Eleventh Air Force dispatches 7 B-24s, 8 B-25s, 12 P-40s, 5 P-38s and 2 F-5As to attack North Head, the Main Camp, runway, North Head and gun positions on Kiska. They also fly weather reconnaissance and photo missions over Kiska and Little Kiska.

CANADA: Frigate HMCS Annanis laid down at Aberdeen, Scotland;

Minesweeper HMCS Oshawa is launched at Port Arthur Ontario; Corvette

HMCS Trillium completes a refit at Boston.