Sea War
Atlantic: Major reorganization of Allied convoy system: first of 11 new ‘escort groups’ commences regular patrols between ‘WESTOMP’ (‘Western Ocean Meeting Point’), off Newfoundland, and ‘EASTOMP’, off Londonderry.
Occupied Territories
France: French Fascist leader Jacques Doriot survives assassination attempt at Rennes. Laval broadcasts on France’s ‘place’ in the ‘New Order’ ‘.
Home Fronts
USA: Roosevelt orders US Navy to take over 4 New York plants of inefficient Brewster Aeronautical Corp. Brewster subsequently produce 735 Corsair fighters, but management problems persist and the works finally close July 1944.
