Air War
Baltic – Operation Eisstoss (‘Ice Strike’): Ju 87 Stukas, Ju 88s and He 111s attack Russian Baltic Fleet in Leningrad. Battleships Oktyabskaya Revolutsiya and Petropavlovsk and cruisers Maksim Gorski and Kirov badly damaged.
Air War
Pacific: Destruction of Mandalay (Burma). Japanese bombers start huge fires in bazaar quarter of city, crowded with natives; trainload of RAF bombs explode. Approx. 2,000 killed.