Air Operations, Aleutians

3 28th Composite Bomb Group B-17s attack Kiska. 1 B-17 is lost.

Air Operations, CBI

8 11th Medium Bomb Squadron B-25s attack a fuel dump at Phu Lo and a barracks and ammunition dump at Hoang Su Phi, both in French Indochina.

Air Operations, Europe

• Soviet aircraft raid Berlin again and other German cities.
• A single bomb dropped by a high-altitude Ju-86P kills 48 and injures 26 in the center of Bristol.

• 159 aircraft to Nuremberg: 71 Lancasters, 41 Wellingtons, 34 Stirlings and 13 Halifaxes
• Crews ordered to bomb at low altitudes; Pathfinders mark area well and crews report good bombing results; reports from the ground do not confirm this; bombs hit as far away as town of Erlangen, 10 miles to the north; bomb reports from the ground indicate that maybe 50 aircraft hit the city, 137 people killed
• 14 Wellingtons, 4 Lancasters, 3 Stirlings and 2 Halifaxes are lost
• 113 aircraft to Saarbrücken: 71 Wellingtons, 24 Halifaxes, 17 Hampdens and 1 Stirling
• Moon is four fifths full and it is judged that this relatively undefended target could be safely hit while the main raid on Nuremberg is taking place; raid is not a success as bombs are scattered over a wide area; in Saarbrücken 15 houses are destroyed, 51 seriously damaged and 1 person killed
• 4 Hampdens, 2 Halifaxes and 1 Wellington are lost

• 3 Halifaxes make leaflet flights without loss

Photo-recce picture of damage to factories in Nuremburg after the attack of 28/29 August.

Damage to Factories in Nuremburg

Air Operations, Solomons

At 1700 2 patrolling Cactus Air Force SBDs attack troop-laden Japanese destroyers in New Georgia Sound only 70 miles from Guadalcanal. No hits are recorded. By 1730 11 SBDs are airborne and attack several of the destroyers at sunset. The Japanese destroyer Asagiri blows up and sinks from a direct hit and 2 other destroyers are damaged, with the convoy unable to put ashore its troops. 2 VMSB-232 SBDs with their crews are lost while strafing the destroyers.

Battle of the Atlantic

The US freighter Topa Topa (5356t), en route to the Gold Coast, is torpedoed and sunk by U-66 losing 18 of her 42-man crew as well as 7 of the 15-man Armed Guard. The British merchantman Clan MacInnes rescues the 35 survivors and takes them to Trinidad.

Caribbean

• The German submarine U-94 is sunk by naval land-based aircraft (VP-92) and the HMCS Oakville.

U-94

Class	Type VIIC
CO	Kapitänleutnant Otto Ites
Location	Caribbean, off Haiti
Cause	Ramming
Casualties	19
Survivors	26

• The US tanker Esso Aruba (8773t), in Convoy TAW-15, is torpedoed by U-511 about 120 miles southeast of Guantanamo Bay. U-511 also torpedoes the British tanker San Fabian and the Dutch tanker Rotterdam, both of which sink. The Esso Aruba, however, remains in convy and reaches her destination the same day without further incident. She suffered no casualties.

Eastern Front

There is a small Russian attack near Leningrad. The German Army Group A begins the assault on Novorossiysk on the Black Sea.

Formation of the Estonian Legion

August 28, 1942, on the anniversary of Tallinn' liberation, Estonian General Commissar SA-Obergruppenführer Karl Siegmund Litzmann announced that the German higher board gave the permission to form the Estonian Legion that would operate under the Waffen-SS. At first men were recruited from eastern and police battalions. The legion was supposed the be the size of a regiment and consist of three battalions (each having four companies) and grenade launchers and antitank defence company. The first meeting of the legion founders took place in Pihkva

The XLVIII Panzer Corps has completed its redeployment aroung Abganerovo and prepares to strike the 64th Army in its flank. The XIV Panzer Corps fights its way across the land bridge, the 3rd Motorized Division securing communications with the 16th Panzer. The 60th Motorized Division still lags behind, being out of touch with the 3rd and 16th Divisions. Soviet attacks against the 16th Panzer Division relents as the 66th Army wears itself out. The pressure that has been brought to bear upon the XIV Panzer Corps has prevented the Germans from attacking straight into Stalingrad after they reach the Volga, giving the Soviets a chance to construct their defenses. In the Caucasus, the 17th Army captures Anapa as it draws closer to Novorossysk.

Eastern Front, Orel sector, Aug 28, 1942: A Soviet attack has just been repulsed and the MG-34 machine gun crew is observing the Russian retreat, always ready to go back to action.

Soviet Attack Repulsed

Guadalcanal

The 1st Battalion of the 5th Marines, in a flanking movement without enemy contact, returns with I Company of the 3rd Battalion to the Kukum area.

Japanese relief troops for Guadalcanal sail from Shortland in destroyer transports escorted by Destroyer Division 20. This reinforcement run during the night by Adm Tanaka's 2nd Destroyer Flotilla is now known to the Marines as the 'Tokyo Express'. Just before dusk coastwatchers announce the Japanese convoy coming down The Slot. 11 dive bombers take off from Henderson. A 1000-pound bomb hits destroyer Asagiri amidships which sets off explosion in ship's magazine. Another bomb hits the destroyer Shirakumo and is badly damaged. 1 dive bomber is lost in the attack to anti-aircraft fire from the destroyers. Among the Japanese lost is Capt Yuzo Arita, the destroyer devision commander, aboard the Asigiri. The Amagiri and the Yugiri are both damaged, but the Amagiri is able to tow the Shirakumo back to Shortland while Yugiri makes under her own power. Once again reinforcements turned back.

New Guinea

The Australians at Milne Bay are hit by the Japanese with violent frontal assaults. Fighting continues inland on the Owen Stanley Range, connecting Port Moresby and the south coast.

Pacific

• A seaplane, launched from the submarine I-25, drops incendiaries over an Oregon forest.
• The light minelayer Gamble (DM-15) sinks the Japanese submarine I-123 near Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands area.

Vichy France

The Vichy government rounds up about 7,000 French Jews for deportation to Auschwitz.

Crusader Tanks on Patrol in the Western Desert, 28 August 1942

The crews of Crusader tanks bed down for the night beside their vehicles in the Western Desert, 28 August 1942.

Crusader Tank Crews Bed Down