Kanjiro Ono removes a vital part from his main transmitter, and hides it under his pillow. Meanwhile, Japanese negotiators in Washington present a new document to the Americans. In the South Atlantic, however, the Allies get some good news, as the disguised German merchant raider Atlantis, with a record 22 kills and 140,000 British tons to her credit, meets up with the heavy cruiser HMS Devonshire while refuelling a German submarine. The U-boat avoids trouble, and rescues the survivors. More trucks struggle across the disintegrating Lake Ladoga to feed besieged Leningrad.
German forces maintain the drive on Moscow, using schnapps and vodka to heat their vehicles.
They move to within 30 miles of the capital. In Tankan Bay, Vice Adm. Chuichi Nagumo assembles his senior officers to the wardroom of his flagship Akagi and reveals to them that their target is Pearl Harbor. He does so in dramatic fashion, yanking a sheet of a massive and excellent physical map of the island of Oahu 6th NZ Brigade attacks Point 175 near Sidi Rezegh and 25th Battalion suffers 100 dead. 5 NZ Brigade isolates the enemy at Sollum, while 28th Maori Battalion captures the upper Sollum Barracks. German troops seize the town of Klin, bringing the panzers astride the main highway from Moscow to the north.