Spitfires and Hurricanes, warned by RDF tore into the Germans and a tremendous dogfight started. Machine-gun fire could be clearly heard in coastal towns. The fury of the RAF attack drove off the attackers who succeed in hitting only one ship in the convoy. Two Bf109s are lost for 6 RAF aircraft, including a Hurricane which crashed into the Channel after colliding with a Do17 which also crashed. This part of the country is becoming known as Hellfire corner.

German bombers also raid Swansea and Falmouth docks, and convoys in the Bristol Channel.

SS Waterloo 1,905 GRT) Canadian bulk canaller was bombed and sunk by Luftwaffe aircraft in the North Sea off Great Yarmouth, England, in position 52.53N, 002.19E. Waterloo was transiting alone in ballast along the coast from Yarmouth to the Tyne estuary when she was attacked by level-bombers from high altitude. In an impressive display of bombing accuracy, the small ship was hit by two of six bombs, which struck Number 1 hold just aft of the bridge. The ship was stopped and all twenty crewmembers safely abandoned the ship in her lifeboats. For 15 minutes it appeared as though the ship may stay afloat but then the bulkhead between Number 1 and 2 holds collapsed and the ship went down by the bow in shallow water, struck the bottom, and slowly sank out of sight. The crew rowed to the nearby shore.

The Fascist organisation now calling itself the British Union was effectively outlawed tonight. Sir John Anderson, the Home Secretary, signed an order under Regulation 18A of the new Defence Regulations. This makes it an offence to call or attend a meeting of the Union, distribute leaflets about any such meeting, or otherwise invite support.

Sir Oswald Mosley, the leader of the organisation, which changed it's title last year to the 'British Union of Fascists and National Socialists' (normally shortened to British Union), was interned last month along with 700 others who had been in the BUF. His wife Diana, a sister of Hitler’s doting admirer the Honourable Unity Mitford, was detained a fortnight ago. There is little evidence that any of these internees were actively interested in a German victory and, indeed, the great majority of British Fascists who have not been interned are serving in the armed forces.

There is a strong suspicion that to some degree Mosley's extended internment was motivated by the hatred felt for him by the Labour Home Secretary, Herbert Morrison, who regarded Mosley as a traitor to the Labour Party (Mosley had been a Minister in Ramsey MacDonald's second government). Certainly Churchill, who knew and despised Mosley, was very uneasy about keeping him locked-up without trial long after the threat of a German invasion had receded. (Adrian Weale)

RAF Bomber Command: 2 Group ( Blenheim). 107 Sqn. 6 aircraft bombing the satellite airfield near Amiens. 4 aircraft FTR.

FRANCE:

VICHY FRANCE: The Third Republic has been replaced by the ‘Etat Francais’ [French State], based in Vichy. The "Head of the French State" and Prime Minister will be Marshal Philippe Petain.

The National Assembly today voted by 569 to 80, with 17 abstentions, to grant Petain the power to promulgate a new constitution. Petain will be aided by Pierre Laval, the vice-premier.

Darlan asks the Italian Admiralty to join him in a naval attack on Alexandria in order to liberate the French fleet encircled there. He also proposes a French raid on the British colony of Sierra Leone in West Africa and a bombing assault on Gibraltar.

MEDITERRANEAN SEA:

Believing the Italian Fleet has returned to Augusta, 9 Swordfish I aircraft from HMS Eagle deliver a torpedo attack on the Augusta roads. While no capital ships are present, the destroyer Leone Pancaldo is hit and sunk (it is later salvaged) and a motor ship is damaged. (Mark Horan)

GERMANY:

The prototype Bf 109F makes its maiden flight.

Berlin: Franz Rademacher, the official in charge of Jewish affairs at the foreign office, has proposed moving the estimated four million Jews expected to be living under German rule after the war to the French Indian Ocean Island of Madagascar. In the document ‘The Jewish Question after the Peace Treaty’ he says that putting the Jews on Madagascar - which France will hand over to the Reich - rather than in the Lublin area of Poland, as planned at present, will make them easier to control.

U-128 is laid down.

AUSTRALIA: Minesweeper HMAS GOULDBOURN is laid down.

U.S.A.: Baseball.

Washington: Roosevelt asks Congress for a $4,848 million defence budget to fund a 1.2 million man army and 15,000 new planes. (US$55.724 billion in year 2000 dollars )

ATLANTIC OCEAN: At 1426, the Petsamo was hit in the engine room by one torpedo from U-34, broke in two and sank within 20 minutes. Four stokers on watch below were killed. The U-boat had needed six hours to get into a favourable firing position and sank the ship in sight of the Irish Coast.

The Alwaki had joined Convoy OA-179 on 6 Jul 1940. At 1306 the ship is hit by two torpedoes fired by U-61 from just over 200 meters distance. The torpedoes hit the ship, penetrated the hull but did not detonate. The Alwaki was shaken and immediately started to list to port, because a bulkhead could not be closed and was slowly flooded. A British freighter came alongside and took off all 41 crewmembers and ten passengers. They are landed at Cardiff on 15 July. Tug HMS Bandit tried to salvage the ship, but she sank after 22.00 hours 10 miles NE of Cape Wrath. The absence of the explosion led to the erroneous conclusion by the Admiralty that sabotage was the cause of her loss.

The pilots were also ordered to avoid flying so low that the wake made by the aircraft on the sea was visible to fighters.

London:

The first British citizen to die under the 1940 Treachery Act was hanged today at Wandsworth jail. he was sentenced to death at the old Bailey on 8 May. George Johnson Armstrong, a ship's engineer, was arrested on his return to Britain from America. While in the US he had met a German consul and offered his services as a spy for the Nazis. But when he was caught spying it was for the Soviet Union. (Adrian Weale)

Three foreigners have been executed for treachery, having landed on a wild piece of the British coast with radio sets. The other Briton to be sentenced to death, Dorothy O'Grady, has had her sentence commuted to 14 years in jail.

Minesweeping trawler HMS Fetlar is launched.

Submarine HMS UMPIRE is commissioned.

GERMANY: The Blohm and Voss, BV-222 flying boat (the largest to attain operational status during the war), completes its first freight mission for the Luftwaffe, flying from the Finkenwerder factory, near Hamburg to Kirkenes, in the far north of Norway.

U-376 and U-586 are launched.

U-503 and U-578 are commissioned.

SYRIA: General Dentz asks for a cease-fire.

Pte James Heather Gordon (1909-86), 2/31 Bn Australian Military Forces, knocked out a machine-gun post at Greenhill, north of Jezzine, which was holding up his company. He bayoneted four French machine-gunners. Later he would say, "We had kidded ourselves that the Legionaires, being mercenaries, wouldn't risk their lives. But they really believed in their 'fight and die' creed. It was a pity we had to fight them. They would have made good mates." (VC) (Mike Mitchell)

LEBANON: Australian units occupy Damur, leaving Beirut as the only Vichy stronghold.

FINLAND: Lt. Gen. Heinrichs' Karelian Army begins its main attack. Maj. Gen. Talvela's VI Corps began its attack already late yesterday evening, and Maj. Gen. Hegglund's VII Corps (7th and 19th Divs) initiates its assault today at 3:20 pm.
Field Marshal Mannerheim gives his so-called "Sword Scabbard" daily order. "I won't put my sword back into its scabbard before Finland and East Karelia are free." The order, which is mainly meant to inspire the troops, starts public discussion on what Finland's war aims should be - not everybody is comfortable with the idea of capturing territory east of the 1939 border ('East Karelia' is a name commonly used in Finland of the Soviet territory immediately east of Finnish border where there lived peoples related to Finns). The cabinet had no foreknowledge of the order, and is completely taken by surprise. Social Democrat members of cabinet demand explanation and threaten with resignation.

This is a contentious matter, as Finns generally feel the war is fought to take back the territories lost after the Winter War in 1940. Going beyond that raises all kinds of uncomfortable questions -- especially abroad -- about why Finland is in this war. Particularly the Social Democrats, the largest party, are not happy with fighting on the same side as the totalitarian Nazi Germany, but are ready to go along because they, like the great majority of the nation, consider the USSR a far greater evil.

U.S.S.R.: The Red Air Force announces that it has flown 47,000 missions since the start of the war, dropping a total of 10,000 tonnes of bombs.
Units of the Soviet 5th Army counterattack south-west of Korosten.
Kleist's Panzer Group hold the attack. 4 Italian divisions leave Italy bound for the Eastern Front.

Smolensk: General Guderian has crossed the Beresina and tonight he is preparing to cross the Dnieper in sight of Smolensk, the gateway to Moscow.

XXIV Pz.K.'s 3rd Pz. Div. (GL Walter Model) makes an assault crossing of the Dnepr a Starye Bykhov, about 110 miles down river from Smolensk. (Jeff Chrisman)

General Hoth is sweeping north to by-pass Smolensk and cut the road to Moscow.

On Stalin's orders Pavlov, the failed commander of the Bialystock sector, has been shot, and a new line of defence has been established under the command of the defence minister, Marshal Timoshenko.

POLAND: Poles drive the entire Jewish population of Jedwabne (1,600 people) into the market place, torture them for several hours, and finally burn them alive in a barn. (Tom Hickox)

UNITED KINGDOM: The USAAF's VIII Bomber Command in England flies Mission Number 72: 121 B-17 and five YB-40 Flying Fortresses are dispatched to the Caen/Carpiquet Airfield and 64 B-17's are dispatched to the Abbevile/Drucat Airfield, both in France; 34 hit Caen at 0832 hours while 36 hit Abbeville at 0729-0735 hours; they claim 17-7-6 Luftwaffe aircraft; a B-17 is lost. In a second raid, 101 B-17s are dispatched against Le Bourget Airfield, Paris but the mission is abandoned due to cloud cover.

Submarine HMS Varangian commissioned.

Frigates HMS Aylmer and Balfour launched.

Patrol vessel HMS Kildwick launched.

EIRE: B-24D-95-CO Liberator, USAAF s/n 42-40784, named "Travelin' Trollop" makes a forced landing on the beach at Lahinch, County Clare. The crew was "interrogated" in the local pub, before being spirited over the border with Northern Ireland and going on to complete 35 missions with the Eighth Air Force. In 1993, a plaque commemorating this event was unveiled on the wall of O'Looney's bar at Lahinch.

GERMANY: U-289 and U-315 are commissioned.

ITALY: OPERATION HUSKY begins as British and U.S. troops invade Sicily.  General Patton lands in the Gulf of Gela on Sicily. General Montgomery lands at Syracuse.

Syracuse, SICILY: For a few desperate hours, with a sudden storm churning the Mediterranean into a mass of huge white-capped waves, disaster threatened the greatest seaborne invasion of the war. For thousands of troops in small, flat-bottomed landing craft, the battle was against seasickness until, almost unnaturally, the wind dropped, the sea settled and the huge armada of 3,000 ships headed for the Sicilian beaches and entry into Axis-controlled Europe.

The planning for Operation Husky was immaculate. The vast convoy - which had set out from ports in Egypt, North Africa, Malta and the United States - assembled exactly on cue. Only the unseasonal storm delayed H-Hour, but by no more than an hour while the convoy sorted itself out.

By dawn this morning more than 150,000 British and American soldiers were safely ashore, with a further 320,000 preparing to join them over the next two days. The storm had convinced the Italian defenders that a landing was impossible: most of them stayed in bed and woke to surrender in their hundreds. Not until the last moment did the defenders really believe that Sicily was the invaders' target. The brilliant deception - involving the use of a corps with false documents - had convinced Hitler that Sardinia was the convoy's destination. Only two German divisions are in place on Sicily, but both are veterans of the North African campaign.

The invaders had contrasting fortunes. As American troops struggled to hold their beach-head in the south of Sicily, the British were resting in Syracuse. The Eighth Army was lucky to meet only light resistance.

The American Rangers came face to face with the crack Hermann Göring  Panzer Division with its 56-ton Tiger tanks, and faced a stiff fight until naval gunfire - called up the beach-head with newly invented "walkie-talkies" - forced the tanks to disperse. On one American beach-head, the Rangers captured an Italian command post to find the telephone ringing. A war correspondent who had been stationed in Rome before the war answered in Italian. "Where are the Americans?" asked the voice at headquarters. "Americans? It's all quiet here, " he replied. It stayed that way on the beach-head. However, the storm caused chaos in the air for paratroopers.

Of the 137 British Airspeed Horsa gliders released, 69 came down in the sea, drowning some 200 men. A further 56 landed in the wrong part of Sicily and only 12 reached the target area - a vital bridge south of Syracuse. US paratroopers fared almost as badly. Their pilots were inexperienced and the navigators were working from daytime photographs in darkness. Dust, anti-aircraft fire and enemy fighters compounded the problems, and most of the 2,781 paratroopers were scattered over a 50-mile radius. These included men of the 504th PIR who were tasked with capturing Gela.

The airborne chaos was to the Allies' advantage in one sense. The sudden presence of so many paratroopers had the effect of confusing the defenders, convinced that the invasion was on an even bigger scale than they had first thought, and reserves were held back from the beach-heads.

The invasion plans have been heavily-modified by General Montgomery, who is anxious that his Eighth Army should be the first into the port of Messina. He plans to fight his way northwards to the east of Mount Etna. The commander of the US Seventh Army, Lt-Gen George S. Patton, is less than happy about his role to fight westwards to Palermo.

Destroyer USS Maddox was pounded by two 250-pound bombs by a lone JU-88 bomber. One struck the magazine and the other struck the rear No. 5 gun turret. The magazine demolished her stern and then the Maddox rolled over and sank in two minutes, the fastest a US vessel ever sunk in WWII. 210 of her crew went down with the ship and 74 survivors were picked up by a tug nearby. In 1998, the pilot of the JU-88 who sank the Maddox was invited to attend their survivor’s reunion, which the German ex-pilot was delighted to go to.

MEDITERRANEAN SEA: At 1241, U-371 fired torpedoes at Convoy ET-22A about 30 miles east of Bougie and damaged the Matthew Maury and Gulfprince (in station #22). The convoy was about eight hours out of port. Gulfprince was struck by one torpedo on the starboard side at the #7 tank. The torpedo penetrated 20 feet into the empty but non-gas-free tank before exploding. The explosion ripped a 20-foot hole in the side, destroyed the steering engine, brought down the main mast and started fires in the tanks carrying fuel. The engines were secured and the ship listed to starboard. Within minutes the complement of eight officers, 28 crewmen and 27 armed guards (the ship was armed with one 5in, one 3in and eight 20mm guns) abandoned ship in two lifeboats, three rafts and by jumping overboard. All men were picked up by trawler HMS Sir Gareth and the British SS Empire Commerce, but one of the armed guards later died from burns on board. A salvage crew boarded the vessel and the tugs HMS Weazel and Hudson towed her to Algiers, arriving on 12 July. Rather than declaring the vessel a total loss, the US War Shipping Administration bought her and chartered the tanker to the US Navy for use as a mobile storehouse in North Africa. In March 1945, the tanker was laid up at Taranto and was sold to Italy on 20 Feb 1948 for scrapping. The Matthew Maury was struck by one torpedo in the stern. The explosion blew off the propeller, bent the shaft and flooded the #5 hold. The ship went out of control and gradually lost way. The eight officers, 35 crew men, 28 armed guards (the ship was armed with one 4in, one 3in and eight 20mm guns) and seven passengers went to their boats stations but did not abandon ship. Two British corvettes stood by and later towed the ship to Bougie. After two days, tugs towed the Matthew Maury to Algiers for temporary repairs. On 22 November, she arrived at Gibraltar and laid there until 19 Aug 1944 when she left for Norfolk, Virginia, USA, arriving on 8 September. The final repairs were made in Newport News, Virginia, USA.

TUNISIA: Pte. Charles Alfred Duncan (b.1908), Parachute Regt., threw himself onto a live grenade which landed among his comrades. He was killed instantly. (George Cross)

INDIAN OCEAN: At 1205, the unescorted Alice F. Palmer (Master George Pederson) was struck by a torpedo on port side at the #5 hold. The explosion destroyed the stern, blew off the prop and rudder, flooded the engine room and the #5 hold, put the after gun out of action and broke the ship’s back. With the stern dropping at a 45° angle some of the complement of eight officers, 35 men and 25 armed guards (the ship was armed with one 3in and nine 20mm guns) abandon ship in two lifeboats ten minutes after the attack. The order to abandon ship came about twenty minutes later and the remaining crew left in the other two lifeboats. U-177 surfaced and signalled the men to come alongside. After questioning the crewmen for 20 minutes, the U-boat took a position off the port side of the Alice F. Palmer and began shelling her. About 20 shells were fired and U-177 left with the ship burning. She slowly sank by the stern and disappeared at about 14.00 hours. The four lifeboats became separated as they sailed to Madagascar. Three days later, a British Catalina aircraft picked up the occupants of the #3 boat, in charge of the 2nd mate with the master and the gunnery officer, 60 miles southeast of Madagascar. On 26 July, boat #2 in charge of the Chief mate, with 11 crewmen and 11 armed guards made land at Bazaruto Island, Mozambique. On 29 July, the boat #1 in charge of the Bosun, with 15 men landed near Lourenco Marques. On 30 July, boat #4 in charge of the 3rd Mate, with 22 men landed on the north shore of Madagascar.

SOLOMON ISLANDS: Thirteenth Air Force B-24s pound Kahili Airfield on Bougainville Island. 

USN Seabees report a 3,300-ft (1,006 m) airstrip at Segi Point on New Georgia Island available for limited operations; this provides an emergency landing field only 40 mi (64 km) from Japanese facilities at Munda.

NEW GUINEA: Fifth Air Force B-25s pound Salamaua, Logui, and the southeast bank of the Francisco River in support of the American and Australian ground forces linkup at Buigap Creek. Mubo is cut off from Salamaua by Australian and US forces.

TERRITORY OF ALASKA: ALEUTIAN ISLANDS: USAAF's Eleventh Air Force attacks the Japanese Home Islands for the first time as eight B-25 Mitchells raid Paramushiru Island in the Kurile Islands, scoring hits on the southern part of Shimushu Island, Paramushiru Island, Kurile Strait, and northern Paramushiru Island, in dead reckoning runs when solid cloud cover prevents a maximum altitude attack. No Anti-Aircraft fire is encountered and no enemy aircraft are sighted. The B-25s stage through Attu Island on returning to Adak Island. Six B-24s, originally slated to accompany the B-25s to Paramushiru Island and five other B-25s are on short notice dispatched to attack a convoy off Attu Island. They claim two medium freighters sunk in deck-level strikes; they were actually two picket boats that were heavily damaged. A Navy PBY-5 Catalina of VP-45 based on Attu radar bombs Kashiwabara harbor on Paramushiru Island.

U.S.A.: Escort carrier USS Gambier Bay laid down.

Destroyer escort USS Wintle commissioned.

Destroyers USS Brown and Thompson commissioned.

Destroyer USS Knapp launched.

Frigate USS Knoxville launched.

Escort carrier USS Manila Bay launched.

ATLANTIC OCEAN: At 0051, the Scandinavia was stopped by U-510 off Dutch Guyana. At 0250, she was torpedoed and sunk in accordance with the prize rules in 07°58N/48°06W after the crew had abandoned ship.

Normandy: Montgomery orders the British Second Army to attack east of Caen (Operation Goodwood) and the US First Army to secure St. Lo.

The 2nd Battalion of the US 358th Regiment of the 90th Infantry Division are cut off at the summit of Hill 122 and surrounded by German paratroopers. Their commander Colonel Jacob Bealke, calls for urgent tank support. A platoon of four tanks from the 712th broke through to his position and a plan was hatched for the four tanks to lead Company K down off the hill, with the rest of the battalion to follow. Company K suffered 80 percent casualties, and the four tanks ran into well-concealed anti-tank guns and were all knocked out, but not before breaking the resistance and providing what some historians of the 90th consider to be the turning point of the seesaw battle for the Foret de Mont Castre, which had raged for seven days. (Aaron Elson)(154)

USAAF Ninth Air Force fighters bomb and strafe gun positions, bridges, a rail overpass, infantry concentrations, and highway junctions, and cover the battle area.

ITALY: Naik Yeshwant Ghadge (b.1921), 5th Mahratta Light Infantry, rushed and wiped out a machine-gun nest before falling to a German sniper. (Victoria Cross)

U.S.S.R.: Hitler refuses Model's (Army Group North) request to position Army Group Center behind the Dvina river.

MARIANAS ISLANDS: In the Mariana Islands, Seventh Air Force P-47 Thunderbolts based on Saipan hit troops and gun positions on Tinian Island. B-24s, staging through Eniwetok Atoll, pound Truk Atoll during the night of 9/10 July and again during the day attempting to stop Japanese aircraft from using the Atoll to attack shipping off Guam.

COMMONWEALTH OF THE PHILIPPINES: Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) Corsairs attack Japanese shipping in Keravia Bay, Rabaul. sinking an auxiliary submarine chaser.

NEW GUINEA: Japanese troops attack US forces across the Wewak river.

U.S.A.: "The Man Called X", starring Herbert Marshall, debuts on CBS radio. This 30-minute show broadcast on Mondays at 9:30 PM Eastern Time, is sponsored by Lockheed Aircraft. Herbert Marshall plays Ken Thurston, "the man called X," an international troubleshooter sent wherever intrigue lurks and danger was the byword. One of the supporting actors on the show was William Conrad while the announcer was John McIntire. The show switched to the NBC Blue Network (which became ABC in late 1944) on Saturday 9 September at 10:30 PM Eastern. During the summer of 1945, the show was broadcast by NBC on Tuesdays at 10:00 PM Eastern. The last broadcast was on 20 May 1952.

Destroyer USS Benner laid down.

Aircraft carrier USS Coral Sea laid down.

Submarines USS Cutlass and Runner laid down.

Minesweeper USS Method commissioned.

During the night of 10/11 July, a Seventh Air Force B-24 from Okinawa bombs Karesehara Airfield; 43 other Okinawa-based B-24s bomb Wan and Sateku Airfields on Kikaiga-shima, Amami Islands; 50+ B-25s bomb Wan Airfield and Saha-Saki on Nakano Shima, Ryuku Islands, and Kurume, Kyushu. 

During the day, 102 XXI Bomber Command P-51 Mustangs based on Iwo Jima attack Hashin, Nishinomiya, Sano and Tokushima mostly hitting airfields; 3 P-51s are lost. 

The USN's Task Force 38, consisting of eight aircraft carriers and six light aircraft carriers under Vice Admiral John S. McCain, launches carrier-based aircraft to attack airfields around Tokyo. 

Passing through frontal weather during the night and preceded by a submarine sweep on the look out for enemy picket boats and with air barriers formed by patrol aircraft to prevent snooping, Task Force 38 arrived undetected at a point 140 miles SE of Honshu at 0400 on 10th July.

As anticipated, the weather cleared sufficiently to allow strikes to be launched. The primary targets for the day's strikes were airfields and aircraft mainly in the Tokyo area, but extending from Koriyama in the north to Hamamatsu in the southwest. No airborne opposition was met. Only 13 airborne aircraft were seen, all of which avoided contact. Around the Task Force, only 3 enemy aircraft were sighted, 2 of which were shot down by the CAP and the 3rd was chased away before making contact.

The air defence of the Task Force was organized to counteract any possible suicide attacks. The method was similar to those used off Okinawa except that sufficient destroyers were available to establish 3 destroyer picket stations - 2 "Tomcat" stations consisting of one division of destroyers each, placed on bearing clear of the probable approach path of enemy aircraft and a further destroyer division called "Watchdog" on the mean of the target bearing line - all 40 to 50 miles from the Task Force Guide. 

All aircraft returned to the Task Force via the Tomcat positions (one DD in each division being fitted with YE or YG homing beacons) and were inspected visually before being allowed to proceed towards the approach sector to the Task Force. The Watchdog was primarily a fighter direction base, one of whose destroyers was one the long hull 2200 ton class DDs fitted with SP radar which allowed accurate height finding on aircraft at much longer ranges from the Task Force. Each Task Group maintained a CAP of 32 fighters, 24 of them at various heights over the Task Group and 8 fighters over either the Tomcats or the Watchdog.

Pilots returned with reports that few aircraft could be seen on the ground and that those that were seen were mainly well dispersed and camouflaged. 

Fighter-bombers locate and destroy an estimated 100 unfuelled aircraft dispersed at sites no closer than 10 miles (16 km) from any airfield. (The Japanese have decided to hoard their aircraft preparing for the Allied invasion which they believe will occur in October 1945.)

BORNEO: Australian progress east of Balikpapan is halted by Japanese barriers of flaming petrol.

ARGENTINA: The German U-boat U-530, missing since the end of April, surfaces at Mar del Plata, sparking off speculation that it ferried high-ranking Nazis to sanctuary in South America.

U.S.A.: Destroyer USS FURSE is commissioned.

CANADA: Frigate HMCS Carlplace refit commenced Saint John, New Brunswick, later transferred to Shelburne, Nova Scotia.
Corvettes HMCS Hawkesbury and Parry Sound paid off Sydney, Nova Scotia.
Corvette HMCS Lachute paid off Sorel, Province of Quebec.
Minesweeper HMCS Spruce Lake launched New Westminster, British Columbia.