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• Hitler issued Directive 35 for Operation Typhoon, which he intended should destroy in a swift blow any remaining Soviet resistance. ww2dbase [Adolf Hitler | AC]
• HMS Brora was wrecked off the Hebrides, Scotland, United Kingdom. ww2dbase [AC]
• The keel of hull number 533 was laid down for the future USS Wilkes-Barre. ww2dbase [Astoria (Cleveland-class) | CPC]
• The Red Army newspaper Krasnaya Zvezda ("Red Star") noted that it was a shame to become captured by the enemy. ww2dbase [CPC]

• Maggiore Baracca was ordered to patrol waters northeast of the Azores. ww2dbase [Maggiore Baracca | CPC]
• Comandante Cappellini was ordered to shift to a new patrol area in the Atlantic Ocean at 2240 hours. ww2dbase [Comandante Cappellini | CPC]

• The hospital ship, RFA Maine, was badly damaged during an air raid on Alexandria, Egypt. Four of her crew, including a Medical Officer, were killed, but fortunately none of thew patients sustained injury. ww2dbase [Alexandria | AC]

• Morosini departed La Pallice, La Rochelle, France at 1900 hours for trials, returning at 2025 hours. At 2135 hours, she departed La Pallice, starting her seventh war patrol. ww2dbase [Morosini | La Rochelle, Poitou-Charentes | CPC]

• Emperor Showa of Japan agreed with the proposal that, unless peace could be achieved by 10 Oct 1941, Japan was to prepare for war. ww2dbase [Showa | Tokyo | CPC]

• The Vilna Ghetto was established in Lithuania, containing 40,000 Jews. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Vilnius | CPC]

• Winston Churchill visited the Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom. ww2dbase [Enigma Code Broken | Bletchley Park | Winston Churchill | Milton Keynes, England | CPC]
• Alan Touring met British Prime Minister Winston Churchill during Churchill's visit at the Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom. ww2dbase [Bletchley Park | Alan Turing | Milton Keynes, England | CPC]

• Franklin Roosevelt arrived at Hyde Park, New York, United States to see his ailing mother Sara Roosevelt. ww2dbase [Franklin Roosevelt | Hyde Park, New York | CPC]

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