UNITED KINGDOM: The actor and composer Ivor Novello is sentenced to two months imprisonment for offences concerned with petrol rationing.
Submarine HMS Selene launched.
Frigate HMS Cawsand Bay laid down.
ENGLISH CHANNEL: Rescue tug HMS Zoder Zee torpedoed and sunk by a German MTB off Dungeness.
GERMANY: A Mosquito VI, piloted by Wg./Cdr. G. L. "Leonard" Cheshire VC, of No. 617 Squadron is used to carry out the first low-level target-marking during a raid on Augsburg. (22)
EGYPT: Alexandria: The remaining striking warships and the First Brigade of the Greek Army surrender, ending a three-week mutiny in the exiled Greek forces under the Allied High Command.
BURMA: Air Commando Combat Mission N0. 49 3:15 Flight Time.
Hailakandi, Assam to Indaw, Burma. Bombed Japanese supply dumps and railroad. Notes: We circled over the lake where we had been the day before. I looked at what was left of the Burmese village. There were dozens of spots of gray. The town was just not there. I wondered what their casualties were? My pilot and friend was on his way to the States and I now flew Barbie III with many different pilots, some good and some not so good; hoping I would also be rotated back to the ZI in the near future. (Chuck Baisden)
NEW GUINEA: Australian troops capture Madang.
CANADA: Corvette HMCS Orangeville commissioned.
Corvettes HMCS Alberni and Port Arthur departed Halifax for UK.
Tug HMCS Shawville assigned to Gaspe, Province of Quebec.
U.S.A.: Washington: US military strategists agree that to defeat Japan it will be necessary to invade Japan itself.
Charles Lindbergh, the famous aviator, leaves San Diego bound for the Pacific theatre as a consultant for the Chance-Vought corporation, to observe various problems being encountered by Corsair pilots. (Marc James Small)
Destroyer USS Drexler laid down.
ATLANTIC OCEAN: U-672 was attacked twice on this day by Allied aircraft, suffering slight damage.