09-1943

WW2 War Diary for Thursday, September 30, 1943: Eastern Front Siege of Leningrad: 11,394 shells fall on city in September, killing 124 and wounding 468. Home Fronts Italy: Badoglio forms […]

WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, September 29, 1943: Mediterranean Italy: US 5th Army captures Castellamare and Pompeii (ancient ruins slightly damaged). British 8th Army enters Adriatic port of Manfredonia. Politics

WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, September 28, 1943: Air War Germany: 599 RAF bombers attacking Hannover and dropping 2,196t of bombs. Occupied Territories France: General Legentilhomme appointed Free French Commissioner

WW2 War Diary for Monday, September 27, 1943: Sea War Atlantic: During series of attacks on 6 convoys (September 27 – October 9) by 21 U-boats only 2 ships are

WW2 War Diary for Sunday, September 26, 1943: Sea War: Channel: British MGBs and Dutch MTBs attack German convoy; 2 cargo ships and a patrol boat sunk (night September 26-27).

WW2 War Diary for Saturday, September 25, 1943: Eastern Front Centrals Sector: RUSSIANS CAPTURE SMOLENSK. Sea War Pacific: Evacuation of Japanese garrison from Kolombangara (Solomons). 9,400 men taken off by

WW2 War Diary for Friday, September 24, 1943: Sea War North Sea: Operation Probestueck (‘Test Piece’). 29 German E-boats lay mines off Harwich.

WW2 War Diary for Thursday, September 23, 1943: Mediterranean Italy: US 5th Army launches offensive north of Salerno. Sea War Mediterranean: Destroyer Eclipse sinks German torpedo boat and prison ship

WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, September 22, 1943: Eastern Front Southern Sector: RUSSIAN 13TH ARMY CROSSES RIVER DNIEPER, south of Kiev – penetrating so-called ‘Eastern Rampart’ defences along right bank.

WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, September 21, 1943: Sea War Arctic: German battleship Tirpitz disabled by ‘X-Craft’ (British midget submarines) in Alta Fjord, North Norway. Pacific: Australian commandos enter Singapore

WW2 War Diary for Monday, September 20, 1943: Mediterranean Italy: British and US troops link up at Eboli. Sea War Indian Ocean: Italian submarine Cagni surrenders at Durban (South Africa).

WW2 War Diary for Sunday, September 19, 1943: Sea War Atlantic: 20 U-boats deployed against convoys ON.202 and ONS.18 (September 19-23). Germans claim outstanding successes with acoustic torpedoes against escorting

WW2 War Diary for Saturday, September 18, 1943: Mediterranean Italy: 5th Army captures Battipaglia. Germans retreat from Salerno bridgehead. Sea War Atlantic: RESUMPTION OF ‘WOLF-PACK’ OPERATIONS AGAINST CONVOYS following re-equipment

WW2 War Diary for Friday, September 17, 1943: Eastern Front Central Sector: BRYANSK CAPTURED BY RUSSIANS. Mediterranean Italy: Patrols of Allied 5th and 8th Armies link up near Agropoli, south

WW2 War Diary for Thursday, September 16, 1943: Occupied Territories Yugoslavia: Split occupied by Tito’s Partisans (recaptured by Germans, September 28). Italy: Suicide of Marshal Cavallero, ex-Chief of Italian General

WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, September 15, 1943: Home Fronts Italy: Mussolini re-establishes Fascist regime in North Italy – along ‘National Socialist’ lines, as the ‘Italian Social Republic’ (Repubblica Sociale

WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, September 14, 1943: Sea War Indian Ocean: U-boat group Monsun (‘Monsoon’) begins operations; 6 ships sunk during October. All except U-533 (lost) then go to

WW2 War Diary for Monday, September 13, 1943: Medierranean Italy: Panzers counter-attack and seriously threaten Salerno bridgehead (September 13-14). Allied naval and air forces bombard advancing Germans ’round-the-clock’. Home Fronts

WW2 War Diary for Sunday, September 12, 1943: Secret War Italy: MUSSOLINI RESCUED by Skorzeny and SS detachment from Gran Sasso in Abruzzi Mountains. Ex-Duce flown out in Storch aircraft.

WW2 War Diary for Saturday, September 11, 1943: Air War Mediterranean: Do 217s of KG 100 (formerly KGr 100) commence series of attacks on Allied fleet off Salerno, using Fritz