Air Operations, Mediterranean

There are British air raids on Reggio Calabria and Messina in Sicily. These raids are occurring almost daily and the Italians are not able to do much to prevent them.

The British use Stirlings and Halifaxes to make a night raid on Turin.

Battle of the Atlantic

• The German steamer Trifels (6198t) is sunk by the British motor torpedo boat MTB-54 off Boulogne. MTB-54 is part of a force of torpedo boats operating in the area of Varne.
• U-81 sinks the British steamer Empire Springbuck (5591t), straggling behind convoy SC-42, northeast of Cape Farewell with the loss of her entire crew of 42.

Eastern Front

The Spanish volunteer 'Azul (Blue) Division', recruited from Spanish anti-Communist volunteers, arrives to begin service on the Leningrad Front with the German forces. The German bombardment of Leningrad continues relentlessly.

The fighting in the Litsa line intensifies as the Germans push slowly forward to heights 173.7 and 314.9. Strong Soviet resistance brings the speed of the advance down to a crawl.

Army Group North commences its main assault upon Leningrad as the XLI Panzer Corps, with the XXXVIII Corps in support, attacks toward Krasnoye Selo. The XLI penetrates the Soviet positions, its 36th Motorized and 6th Panzer Divisions advancing 6 miles and cutting the Krasnoye Selo to Krasnogvardievsk road. The 6th Panzer is involved in heavy fighting at Krasnoye Selo. Attacks by the XXVIII Corps fail to make progress in the face of fierce resistance by the 55th Army. Furious artillery fire falls upon the Soviets, but the Baltic Fleet, anchored around Kronstadt, lays down a counter-barrage in support of the hardpressed units.

A bomb crater at the Fontanka river embankment in Leningrad. Communal workers are pumping the water which burst out of water supply and sewage pipes, 9 September 1941.

Bomb Damage at the Fontanka River Embankment

The XXIV Panzer Corps extends its bridgeheads across the Seim as it advances toward Konotop. Backmach falls to the Germans.

Elements of the 17th Army cross the Dniepr, consolidating the positions of the 1st Panzer Group at Kremenchug. Belatedly, the Stavka orders the 5th and 37th Armies to fall back behind the Desna, but the 2nd Army has already broken into the rear of this position, trapping the Soviet armies between itself and the 6th Army that is advancing north of Kiev.

The Stavka orders the withdrawal of the 5th Army and the right wing of the 37th Army to the Desna.

Iran

Iran accepts terms of an armistice imposed by Britain and Russia, including provisions for the ouster of German and Italian diplomatic personnel and 'tourists' who are assumed to be Axis agents.

Mediterranean

The Dutch submarine O-24 sinks the Italian steamer Italo Balbo (5114t) 10 miles west of Elba.