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• US Navy began to mobilize its aviation arm. ww2dbase [CPC]
• British minesweeping trawler HMT Lord Inchcape hit a mine and sank off Plymouth, England, United Kingdom. ww2dbase [CPC]
• Three RAF Hudson bombers attacked German submarine U-46 in the Atlantic Ocean, wounding Matrosengefreiter Plaep, who would die from his injuries on the next day. ww2dbase [First Happy Time | CPC]
• British gunboat HMS Aphis bombarded Italian troops 15 miles east of Sidi Barrani, Egypt. ww2dbase [CPC]
• Ermland was ordered to set sail on a supply mission for battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisneau. ww2dbase [Ermland | CPC]

• British bombers attacked Hamburg and Berlin in Germany, causing heavy casualties. ww2dbase [Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities | Berlin | CPC]

• The Italian Navy formed the Forza Navale Speciale (FNS) under Vice Admiral Vittorio Tur. ww2dbase [CPC]
• Morosini departed Naples, Italy at 0800 hours, starting her third war patrol. ww2dbase [Morosini | Naples, Campania | CPC]

• 16 Italian BR20M bombers attacked Felixstowe and Harwich in Britain; 1 crashed on take off and 2 crashed on the return flight. Meanwhile, four groups of German Bf 109 fighters swept southern England, United Kingdom, shooting down 10 British fighters while losing 14 of their own. At dusk, German He 111 bombers attacked Montrose airfield in Scotland. Overnight, London, Birmingham, Pembroke, Cardiff, and Liverpool were bombed. ww2dbase [Battle of Britain | England | CPC]
• Jean Marin made a broadcast over the BBC from the United Kingdom to the French people, speaking of the Germans depriving France of food and other goods, denouncing the Vichy regime, while avoiding to vilify Philippe Pétain personally. Instead, Pierre Laval was noted as the collaborationist who had tricked Pétain. ww2dbase [CPC]

• Submarine USS Thresher departed New London, Connecticut bound for New York and the Florida Keys for her shakedown exercises. ww2dbase [Thresher | New London, Connecticut | DS]

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