Singapore surrenders to the Japanese.  32,000 Indian, 16,00o British, and 14,000 Australian troops taken prisoner.  More than half will die in captivity.

Altmark Affair in Jøssingfjord, Norway

Odd Nansen meets Tommy Buergenthal

Count Folke Bernadotte meets with Himmler to negotiate the release of Scandinavian prisoners

U.S. Marines land on Iwo Jima

The ferry SF Hydro is sunk by Norwegian resistance fighters on Lake Tinnsjø, effectively ending Germany's development of an atomic bomb.

Operation Gunnerside, the attack on the heavy water facility in Norway, begins.