Year 1943

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

WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, September 10, 1943: Mediterranean Italy: British capture Salerno. Germans occupy Rome and disarm Italian armed forces in the North. Sea War Mediterranean: Huge crowds watch

WW2 War Diary for Thursday, September 9, 1943: Sea War Mediterranean – ALLIES LAND AT SALERNO: US 5th Army (Lt.Gen. Mark Clark) and British 10th Corps land at Salerno, south

WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, September 8, 1943: Politics SURRENDER OF ITALY: Eisenhower makes a public announcement in Algiers. Italian Armistice Terms: 13 points inc. immediate cessation of hostilities; Italy

WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, September 7, 1943: Air War Germany: 365 RAF bombers attacking Munich and dropping 1,020t of bombs. Politics USA: Correspondence published concerning US refusal to supply

WW2 War Diary for Monday, September 6, 1943: Eastern Front Central Sector: Russian advance southeast of Smolensk temporarily halted by defence line from Yelnya to river Desna. Air War Mediterranean:

WW2 War Diary for Sunday, September 5, 1943: Eastern Front Central sector: Russian 50th Army launches 2-pronged outflanking operations east of Bryansk. Air War Pacific: US paratroops land near Lae

WW2 War Diary for Saturday, September 4, 1943: Sea War Pacific: Australian troops land east of Lae (New Guinea).

WW2 War Diary for Friday, September 3, 1942: Air War Germany: 295 Avro Lancaster bombers raid Berlin (20 lost, 906t bombs dropped). Home Fronts Germany: One million women and children