The Bialystok Ghetto uprising commenced when the SS surrounded the ghetto in that city to deport its residents. The Jewish underground of the Polish city revolted and fought back, resulting in a battle that lasted five days.
There's a common myth, for some reason, that European Jews did not resist the Holocaust, often attributed to a lack of their being armed. In fact, they did resist, sometimes causing the Germans significant casualties.
Taking a page from the American book, British forces made a small amphibious landing on Sicily's east coast, but it failed to cut off retreating Axis forces. On the same day, US elements reached Messina.
The Red Army took Zhidra.
The Air Transport Command commenced ferrying Elanor Roosevelt on a tour of the Pacific Theatre. The plane involved was a C-87, a cargo variant of the B-24.
Featured earlier, this Canadian soldier examined a Japanese machine gun on Kiska:
