Eastern Finland: British pilots bring 12 Bristol Blenheim bombers directly to Jukajärvi airstrip in Juva.
Photo: SA-KUVA
Enemy pushes north in force along the banks of the Vuoksi
- Marshall Timoshenko orders his troops to take Viipuri.
- The Soviet force is ordered to surround and totally destroy the city's Finnish defenders.
- The plan of attack includes an assault by two army corps across Viipurinlahti bay to encircle the city from the southwest.
- Further east the enemy also attacks to the north along the banks of the Vuoksi with another two army corps.
- Colonel Oinonen, the new commander of the Finnish 23rd Division, decides to launch a counterattack on the enemy troops which have overrun the Honkaniemi area. The counterattacking force includes a strengthened battalion with its own tanks. H-hour is set for 5.00 a.m.
- H-hour has to be put back when the attacking force is unable to establish contact with its own artillery. When contact is finally established about an hour later, part of the preliminary artillery bombardment comes down among the Finnish troops, killing or wounding 30 men.
- When the troops on the Isthmus at Lake Näykkijärvi move into battle between 6.15 and 10.00 a.m., a fierce tank battle ensues in the area around Honkaniemi station.
- The Finns lose five of the six old Vickers tanks used in the attack.
- The attacking troops are finally forced to withdraw to their starting positions.
- The Russians bring more men into the area to support the breakthrough.
- Two strongholds are initially lost in the Terenttilä area in Taipale, but are retaken in a counterattack.
- Eight Finnish aircraft bomb the Lotinanpelto airfield near the mouth of the River Syväri and the Murmansk railway line.
- Foreign Minister Tanner arrives in the evening in Stockholm and meets Professor T.M. Kivimäki, who has just returned from a fact-finding mission to Germany and urges acceptance of even harsh peace terms. The Ministry for Foreign Affairs communicates the peace terms to Finland's diplomatic representatives in Paris and London.
- 80 enemy bombers pound the marshalling yard and the surrounding district in Kouvola, causing a temporary break in traffic to the east and south.
- Eastern Finland: British pilots bring 12 Bristol Blenheim bombers directly to Jukajärvi airstrip in Juva.
- Abroad: in Stockholm, holders of steel von Döbeln rings bearing the election slogan "Honour - Duty - Will" exchange them for gold rings, the proceeds from the sale to go to help the Finnish cause.
- Finland's good will envoys in the United States, the great runners Taisto Mäki and Paavo Nurmi, are today guests of honour at the US indoor championships in New York's Madison Square Garden. Finland's blue and white flags are raised on the flag poles side by side with the Stars and Stripes.