The Japanese Military Police here detained eleven local Italians, known Fascists, for supporting Badoglio.

News: The attack on Truk lasted 48 hours. Nineteen Japanese ships were sunk and six or seven others heavily damaged. All told, 201 Japanese planes were listed as shot down or destroyed on the ground. There was no air opposition at all on the second day. Americans lost 17 planes and suffered slight damage to one unspecified vessel.

Raids over Germany in the last 24 hours have been on a record scale though costly — German aircraft factories were the main targets.