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• British carrier HMS Ark Royal sank off Gibraltar at 0813 hours from the damage sustained from the previous day's German submarine attack. ww2dbase [Ark Royal | TH]
• Soviet destroyer Gordy struck a mine and sank en route to Hanko, Finland. ww2dbase [CPC]
• German submarine U-561 sank Panamanian ship Crusader in the North Atlantic; 33 were killed, 1 survived. ww2dbase [CPC]
• Soviet submarine L-2 struck three mines in a minefield off Keri, Estonia in the Baltic Sea between 0107 and 0617 hours, eventually sinking, killing 50 of 53 aboard. ww2dbase [CPC]
• Soviet submarine M-98 struck a mine and sank in the Gulf of Finland, killing all aboard. ww2dbase [CPC]

• Soviet submarine ShCh-211 was lost to unknown reason off Varna, Bulgaria in the Black Sea, presumably lost of a Romanian mine. ww2dbase [CPC]

• Haruki Isayama was made the Chief of Staff of the 15th Army stationed in occupied Burma. ww2dbase [Haruki Isayama | CPC]

• US Marines in China (Shanghai, Beiping, and Tianjin) were ordered to evacuate to the Philippine Islands. ww2dbase [CPC]

• Comandante Cappellini conducted a trial out of La Pallice, La Rochelle, France. ww2dbase [Comandante Cappellini | La Rochelle, Poitou-Charentes | CPC]
• Morosini departed Bordeaux, France at 1314 hours for Le Verdon-sur-Mer, France, but the journey was cancelled due to heavy fog. At 1825 hours, she departed again, arriving at Le Verdon-sur-Mer at 1825 hours. ww2dbase [Morosini | Bordeaux, Aquitaine | CPC]

• Shokaku was relieved of her status as the flagship of Carrier Division 5; that responsibility was passed to Zuikaku. ww2dbase [Shokaku | CPC]
• Tatsuta Maru departed Yokohama, Japan. ww2dbase [Tatsuta Maru | Yokohama, Kanagawa | CPC]
• Kaga exited the drydocks at Sasebo Naval Shipyard, Japan. ww2dbase [Sasebo Naval Arsenal | Kaga | Sasebo, Nagasaki | CPC]

• Operation Flipper: After dark, submarines HMS Torbay and HMS Talisman delivered 36 (of planned total of 59, due to rough seas) British commandos of No. 11 (Scottish) Group behind enemy lines in Libya. ww2dbase [Operation Crusader | CPC]

• The British launched unescorted freighters disguised as French, Italian, and Spanish ships with supplies for Malta. Meanwhile, Operation Astrologer was commenced with transports Empire Defender and Empire Pelican, also with supplies for Malta; Empire Pelican was found and sunk by Italian SM.79 torpedo bombers near the Galite Islands off Tunisia, killing 1. ww2dbase [Malta Campaign | CPC]

• USS New Mexico departed Casco Bay, Maine, United States for Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, where she would embark on a patrol into the Atlantic Ocean. ww2dbase [New Mexico | Casco Bay, Maine | CPC]

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