On the Eastern Front… Continuing Finnish attacks against the Soviets in the area between Lake Ladoga and Lake Onega cut the railway track south from Murmansk, the northern port vital for supplies to the USSR.

In the Mediterranean… 69 more British Hurricane fighters are flown to Malta with the help of British navy's Force H using the Ark Royal and the Furious.

In Norway… British RAF Flying Fortress bombers attack the German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer in Oslo Fiord.