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• German troops captured Ostrov in northern Russia. ww2dbase [Operation Barbarossa | TH]
• British Communist Party decided to stop campaigning for peace; instead, they supported the national war effort. ww2dbase [TH]
• US Marines arrived at Iceland for occupation duties, freeing British troops for war efforts elsewhere. ww2dbase [CPC]
• Wing Commander Hughie Edwards of 105 Squadron RAF won the Victoria Cross for leading a low level attack on Bremen, Germany in which his Blenheim bomber was hit twenty times. ww2dbase [AC]
• While flying a MiG-3 fighter Lieutenant-Colonel Stepan Suprun, commanding officer of Soviet Naval Air Unit 401 IAP, was shot down by a German Fw 200 aircraft. ww2dbase [AC]
• Douglas Bader collided with a German Bf 109E fighter during a dogfight; the German fighter was scored as a probable kill. ww2dbase [Douglas Bader | CPC]
• The Soviet NKVD arrested Colonel General Dimitry Pavlov for not attacking German forces as Joseph Stalin had ordered. ww2dbase [CPC]

• Comandante Cappellini sighted a freighter in the Atlantic Ocean at 1600 hours, bearing markings of a neutral nation. At 1930 hours, fellow Italian submarine Leonardo da Vinci sighted Comandante Cappellini. ww2dbase [Comandante Cappellini | Leonardo da Vinci | CPC]

• A BBC broadcast by a broadcaster named Bonifas announced that of all food cargo arriving at Marseille, France from the French African colonies, the Germans took an estimated 40%, Italians took 40%, and the Vichy French government took 12% for its food reserves, leaving only 8% of the food to be sold on the open market. ww2dbase [CPC]

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