Home Fronts
Britain: Sinclair, Secretary for Air, declares at Birmingham that the RAF does not wish to destroy historic German cities but ‘we must and will destroy the enemy’s means of making war – his defences, factories … wherever they may be found … a terrible summer is in prospect for the German Air Force. By day and night, in the air and on the ground they will be exposed to unrelenting attacks …’.
Sea War
Pacific: Japanese liner Taiyo Maru (14,000t) sunk by American submarine off Hong Kong. 780 oil industry experts and technicians, travelling to East Indies to reactivate oilfields, are drowned.
Occupied Territories
Philippines: President Quezon arrives in San Francisco.
