Rommel's forces make the first assaults on El Alamein. They go badly.
Axis forces take Sevastopol. The battle had resulted in 18,000 Red Army KIA and 95,000 lost as prisoners. 5,000 were evacuated as sick and wounded. The Germans lost 5,786 men and the Romanians 1,874. The German wounded amounted to 21,626 and the Romanian 6,571.
Axis forces also approach Voronezh in the Soviet Union, where the Red Army is preparing to meet them and counter-attack
The U.S. submarine USS Sturgeon sinks the Japanese Montevideo Maru, a passenger ship. It was carrying Australian POWs and civilian internees, all who died in the sinking.
The USS Luckenbach, which was carrying 1/6th of the world's tungsten supply, hit two mines in a U.S. minefield off of the Florida Keys. The tungsten would later be recovered.
Pierre Laval, Prime Minister of France, allowed German forces to enter Vichy controlled France to search for hidden radio transmitters.
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