Air Operations, Aleutians

3 28th Composite Group B-24s bomb targets in Kiska harbor and shoot down 1 Japanese float plane.

Air Operations, Europe

• 5 Mosquitos bomb Bremerhaven, Cologne, Emden, Essen and Wilhelmshaven. Cologne and Wilhelmshaven do not report bombings this day. No losses.

• 16 aircraft sent to bomb Heinkel works at Warnemünde, but are recalled; 43 aircraft lay mines off Biscay ports and in the Frisians
• 1 Wellington minelayer lost.

Air Operations, Mediterranean

USAMEAF B-24s attack Maleme Airdrome (Crete) and convoys at sea and in Suda Bay (Greece). [ | ]

Air Operations, New Guinea

RAAF bombers and V Fighter Command P-40s attack a Japanese cruiser and destroyer near Cape Kaitahua and 5th Air Force A-20s and P-40s attack ground targets in the Owen Stanley Mountains.

Battle of the Atlantic

U-165 sinks the Greek steamer Aeas (4,729t) and the Canadian yacht Raccoon (358t) in the St Lawrence River. 2 crewmen are lost on the Greek ship, there are 29 survivors. All 37 on board the Canadian yacht are lost.

SB2U Vindicators of Scouting Squadron (VS) 41 pictured in flight over the Atlantic on September 7, 1942.

SB2U Vindicators in Flight

Diplomatic Relations

Italy declares war on Brazil.

Eastern Front

The Russians manage to contain German pressure both at Stalingrad and east of Novorossiysk.

With the 62nd Army in the suburbs of Stalingrad, the LI Corps of the 6th Army launches a strong attack with 2 infantry divisions. Launched from Gumrak, the attack is designed to break into the city center. After intense fighting the Germans almost reach the Mamayev Kurgan but at great cost against stubborn Soviet resistance. The Mamayev Kurgan is to become the scene of ferocious battles over the coming weeks as both armies fight for control of the commanding height.

To the south, there is heavy fighting around Novorossiysk as the 47th Army launches a series of punishing counterattacks, putting the 17th Army under severe pressure.

Ecuador

US forces take over control of military installations on the Ecuadorian coast and in the Galapagos Islands.

Guadalcanal

Col Edson's 1st Raider Bn and the remains of the 1st Parachute Bn are assigned the task of making a raid behind the Japanese lines to eliminate the Japanese threat. Boarding the destroyer transports McKean (APD-5) and Manley (APD-1) and 2 landing craft, the marines are taken to a point east of Taivu Point into Japanese territory. They land and move toward the village of Tasimboko. They find an abandoned 37-mm gun and ammunition as the Japanese have evacuated thinking a major American invasion was coming in. More guns and supplies are found as the marines move up the trail, finding more evidence of a hurried evacuation. By 0900 the marines are engaged at several places and call for help from overhead. Dive bombers and P-400s come to relieve the pressure on the Raiders. The marines move on into Tasimboko and discover it was a Japanese headquarters finding a radio station and supplies which they destroy. The marines re-embark and go back to Guadalcanal to report.

RAF Armorers Prepare 500lb Bombs for Convoy Attacks

The surviving vessels of the Axis convoy attacked by Malta air forces yesterday were today reported continuing on their course south eastwards. Today three Wellingtons of 69 Squadron were sent to carry out a further attack. Fifty miles north of Cape Aamer the Wellingtons came upon two merchant vessels with three destroyers as escort. The bombers released twelve 500lb bombs which they reported landing within 10 yards of the larger merchant ship. No damage report has yet been received.

New Guinea

All Japanese resistance ends at Milne Bay. The Japanese are still advancing across the Owen Stanley Mountains toward Port Moresby.

North Africa

Gen Montgomery calls off the XIII Corps' attacks in the El Alamein-Alam el Halfa area, leaving the enemy with a strip about 5 miles deep on the southern flank of the 8th Army. Meanwhile preparations for the offensive are intensified.

United States, Home Front

Roosevelt proposes an anti-inflation program in the US, including a ceiling of a $25,000 annual wage for all Americans.

Vichy France

Laval protests the bombing of Le Havre and Rouen by US planes. He is told the US regret any suffering by the people of France 'but that military plants operated by or for Germany and other German military properties in France will be bombed at every opportunity in the future.'