Over Formosa... Bombers of the US 14th Air Force, based in China, raid the Japanese island for the first time. An estimated 42 Japanese aircraft are destroyed on the ground at Shinchiku airfield.

On the Eastern Front... Soviet forces launch a new offensive between Mogilev and Gomel. Propaisk is captured.

In the Bismarck Archipelago... During the night, 5 Japanese destroyers, carrying troops to Buka in the Solomon Islands, are surprised by 5 American destroyers led by Captain Burke off Cape St George. Three Japanese ships are sunk.

In New Guinea... The Australian 9th Division captures the last Japanese positions at Sattelberg.

In Egypt... The Cairo Conference ends. Roosevelt, Churchill and Chaing Kai-shek meet. No major decisions are reached. No attempt is made to prepare a joint Anglo-American approach for the coming Teheran meeting with Stalin.