In North Africa... Rommel's troops evacuate Benghazi. Allied troops enter Barce.

On Wake Island... The American troops surrender to the Japanese, the carriers sent to relieve them are still several hundred miles away.

In Burma... The first Japanese air attacks on Rangoon. The city's air defense consist of only two fighter squadrons, one from the RAF, the other an American Volunteer Group

In Borneo... Japanese land troops at Kuching, the capital of Sarawak. Dutch submarines provide some resistance sinking two troops transports and a Japanese destroyer. A small British force continues to resist at Kunching.