On the Eastern Front… After a march of about 150 miles, the continuously moving but surrounded forces under the command of the German 1st Panzer Army – Hube's Pocket – establish contact with the German 4th Panzer Army to the south of Tarnopol. Although the German force has lost some heavy equipment and weapons, as well as sustaining casualties, it has also destroyed considerable quantities of Soviet equipment during the fighting withdrawal to the German lines. The escaping troops are able to rejoin the line within days. Marshal Zhukov, commanding the Soviet 1st Ukrainian Front, is subsequently blamed for the Soviet failure to destroy the encircled German force of about 200,000 troops. There is heavy fighting north of Razdelnaya as a small pocket of German and Romanian forces (elements of German 6th Army) is reduced by forces of the Soviet 3rd Ukrainian Front.

Over Occupied Yugoslavia… British Spitfire fighter-bombers of the Desert Air Force destroy many planes on Banja Luka airfield.

In Occupied France… French resistance members stop production at the Timken ball-bearing factory, near Paris.

In the United States… Rose O'Neill, artist and creator of the “Kewpie Doll,” dies aged 68.