Sea War
Channel: British MTBs virtually destroy German convoy near Cherbourg.
Eastern Front
Central Sector: GREAT RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE IN BYELORUSSIA.
Northern Sector: Russian Marines land behind Finnish lines north of lake Ladoga. Colonel-General Dietl, commander of German forces on Arctic front, killed in air crash; aged 54.
Byelorussia – Opposing Forces:
Russian | Germans |
|
|---|---|---|
Soldiers | 1,200,000 (124 divisions) | 63 divisions |
Guns and mortars | 31,000 | 10,000 |
Tanks and assault guns | 5,200 | 900 |
Planes | 6,000 | 1,300 |
