22 Jan 1941

- Italian cruiser San Giorgio was scuttled by her own crew at Tobruk, Libya at 0415 hours. In the afternoon, Brigadier General Vincenzo della Mura surrendered the Italian 61 Infantry Division "Sirte". Meanwhile, Allied troops continued the attacks throughout the day, with monitor HMS Terror and gunboats HMS Gnat and HMS Ladybird continuing to offer support with their guns. British aircraft sank Italian liner Liguria. Before the end of the day, Admiral Massimilian Vietina surrendered to the Australian troops. ww2dbase [Operation Compass | CPC]
- 4th Indian Division attacked Italian positions at Keru, Eritrea, Italian East Africa, leading to General Fongoli surrendering his 1,200 men. ww2dbase [Invasion of Italian East Africa | CPC]
- British minesweeping trawler HMT Luda Lady hit a mine and sank in the Humber estuary in northern England, United Kingdom, without any casualties. ww2dbase [CPC]
- Morosini departed La Pallice, La Rochelle, France at 1600 hours, starting her fourth war patrol. ww2dbase [Morosini | La Rochelle, Poitou-Charentes | CPC]
- German battlecruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau departed from Kiel, Germany for Operation Berlin. ww2dbase [Operation Berlin | Gneisenau | Scharnhorst | Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein | CPC]
- The first massacre of Jews in Romania took place. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | CPC]


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