Battle of the Atlantic
- U-126 sinks the British steamer Nailsea Manor (4926t), a straggler from Convoy OS-7, northeast of the Cape Verde Islands. All 42 of the crew are picked up by the British corvette Violet.
- The British steamer Kyma sinks on a mine east of Hornsea. The entire crew are rescued.
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]Black Sea
The Rumanian minelayer Regele Carol I sinks after it hits a mine near Cape Kaliakra.
[ | ]Eastern Front
Gen Zhukov returns to Moscow from his duties at Leningrad to take control of a new Soviet western front formed for the defense of the capital. Nikolai Bulganin is attached to him as political adviser.
Moscow factories begin to be disassembled for evacuation to the east. Priority goes to facilities used in war production. Equipment of all kinds is crated to be shipped out of the war zone as fast as possible.
FINLAND AND NORWAYThe heavy fighting in Karelian since August 23 has cost the Karelia Front nearly 30,000 killed and missing and 32,000 wounded.
NORTHERN SECTORThe 250th 'Blue' Div, made up of Spanish volunteers and formed within days of the German attack on the USSR, goes into action against the Russians for the first time in the sector between Lake Ilmen and the west bank of the Volkhov.
CENTRAL SECTORInside the Vyazma pocket, the Stavka gives control of the mixed forces to Lukin and orders him to break east toward Sychevka and Gzhatsk. On the road to Moscow, heavy fighting erupts at Maloyaroslavets.
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To the south, the XXIV Panzer Corps finally reaches Mtsensk. Many tanks have been lost in the fighting with the I Guards Rifle Corps blunting Guderian's army. Meanwhile, the XIII Corps of the 2nd Army forges a crossing of the Ugra River west of Kaluga despite stubborn Soviet resistance. Around Bryansk, the 50th Army falls back to the northeast under heavy attack while the 3rd Army fights its way south near Dmitrov Lgovsky.
Following the collapse of their defenses around Vyazma, the Soviets disband the Reserve Front, its units being incorporated into the battered West Front. Zhukov takes personal control of the front with Koniev as deputy. With the Bryansk Front also in tatters, Zhukov deploys the reformed 26th Army along the line of the Zusha River to provide cover to the southern wing of his line. The 16th Army is deploying around Volokolamsk, the 5th at Mozhaisk, the 43rd at Maloyaroslavets, the 49th at Kaluga and the 33rd at Naro-Fominik, the latter being in front reserve.
SOUTHERN SECTORThe 6th Army captures Sumy as Army Group South struggles to maintain its link wit the 2nd Army. Hitler repeatedly calls for the 6th Army to move south together with the 17th Army, to lend support to the 1st Panzer Army. Halder insists this will open a vulnerable gap between the two German army groups.
Kleist's 1st Panzer Army has almost completed the destruction of the 18th and 9th Armies. Outside the pocket, the 1st SS Motorized Division Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler of the III Panzer Corps forces its way into Taganrog, becoming involved in fierce fighting with the remnants of the 18th Army.
GERMAN COMMANDThe OKH alters its plan to expand the offensive in the center and destroy the Northwest Front. The 3rd Panzer Group is to push on to Kalinin. Torzok and Vishny Volochek, linking up with Army Group North after its advance throught the Valdai Hills. The 9th Army will support the 3rd Panzer's drive. The 4th Army and the 4th Panzer Group, are to push directly east toward Moscow as the 2nd Panzer Group and the 2nd Army envelop the city from the south.
[ | ]Germany, Strategy
In the light of the success OKH expandes its offensive, the 3rd Panzer Group being ordered to advance to Kalinin and link up with Army Group North. In the center, the 4th Panzer Group and 4th Army will lunge for Moscow, while the 2nd Panzer Group and 2nd Army will assault the city on the southern flank.
[ | ]Occupied Luxembourg
In a referendum organized by the pro-Nazi party on the annexation of their country to Germany does not have the result its promoters looked for.
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