Air Operations, CBI

• 18 341st Medium Bomb Group B-25s attack a bridge and rail facilities at Myitnge.
• 9 B-25s attack shipping at Rangoon.
• 6 51st Fighter Group P-40s attack a military camp near Tahona.

Air Operations, East Indies

• 90th Heavy Bomb Group B-24s attack Halong, Celebes.
• V Bomber Command B-25s attack Koepang, Timor.

Air Operations, Europe

• In the largest VIII Fighter Command offesive operation to date, 112 P-47s from the 4th, 56th, and 78th Fighter Groups conduct a series of high-altitude fighter sweeps from Pas-de-Calais to The Hague. No Luftwaffe are officially credited, but 3 are claimed.
• 2 56th Fighter Group P-47s are lost, 2 others damages

Air Operations, Mediterranean

• NASAF P-38s attack Axis ships at sea near Marettimo Island.
• NAAF P-40s attack Axis ships at sea along Tunisia's northeastern coast.
• NATAF bombers and fighters attack Axis ships at sea in the Gulf of Tunis.
• IX Fighter Command P-40s bomb and strafe Axis vessels encountered at sea between the Tunisian coast and Zembra Island.
• In the course of at least four separate engagements through the day over or near Marettimo Island, Cap Bon, and the Gulf of Tunis, USAAF fighter pilots down 11 Bf-109s and 3 Mc-202s.

Air Operations, New Guinea

43rd Heavy Bomb Group B-17s and 90th Heavy Bomb Group B-24s mount individual attacks against numerous targets.

Air Operations, Solomons

• 6 XIII Bomber Command B-24s attack Kieta.
• 2 B-24s attack the Kahili airfield on Bougainville.
• Individual B-24s attack Vila (Kolombangara) and Numa Numa (Bougainville).
• AirSols fighters attack Gatere and Pelipelpi Bay.
• USAAF P-39s and US Navy aircraft attack a bivouac at the Vila airfield on Kolombangara.

Air Operations, Tunisia

• During the afternoon, NASAF B-26s attack a landing ground near Protville.
• NATAF and 9th Air Force bombers and fighters mount numerous attacks on a variety of targets in the ground-battle area.

Allied Planning

At a planning conference in Algiers for HUSKY, the invasion of Sicily, Supreme Allied Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower hears from Gen Bernard Montgomery's representative, who proposes a combined US-British assault on the southeast corner of the island.

Axis Diplomacy

Hitler meets with Laval. This is the last of 5 meeting with satellite and quisling leaders that Hitler has had in April.

The Danish Submarine Bellona (C-2) was scuttled by its own crew at Holmen on 29 August 1943.

Danish Submarine Bellona (C-2)

The Danish cruiser Peder Skram sunken at Holmen in Copenhagen, 29 August 1943

Danish Cruiser Peder Skram

Battle of the Atlantic

• U-332 is sunk by Liberator 'D' of No 224 Squadron in Operation DERANGE, an anti-U-boat sweep by RAF Coastal Command in the Bay of Biscay.

U-332

Class	Type VIIC
CO	Oberleutnant zur See Eberhard Huttemann
Location	Atlantic, NW of Cape Ortegal
Cause	Air attack
Casualties	45
Survivors	None

• The US freighter McKeesport (6198t), in Convoy ONS-5, is torpedoed by U-258 and abandoned. The British trawler Northern Gem rescues all hands: the 43-man crew and the 25-man Armed Guard. The trawler then finishes the freighter with gunfire.

North Africa

The British recapture Sidi Abdallah.

Gen Alexander decides to reinforce the British 1st Army for the final push to clear the rest of Tunisia.

In the US II Corps area, the 60th Regimental Combat Team of the 9th Div reaches Djebel Hazemat, north of the Sedjenane River, then pushes closer to Kef en Nsour, south of the river.

The 39th Regimental Combat Team continues its outflanking action toward Jefna on the northern flank while the 47th Regimental Combat Team patrols actively toward Djebels Azag and Ajred, reaching the western slope of Azag. The 34th Div makes limited progress against Hill 609, getting elements on the southern slopes. The 16th Regimental Combat Team of the 1st Div begins an attack on Hill 523, a strongpoint east of Hill 609, but makes little progress. The rest of the 1st Div is relatively quiet as positions on Djebel el Anz and Djebel Sidi Meftah are consolidated. Combat Command A, 1st Armored Div, continues to clear Hill 299 against determined opposition.

Occupied Poland

A German sponsored 11-man 'International Medical Commission' dissects 8 Polish corpses at Katyn and reports that Russians committed the massacre in the spring of 1940 using German small arms.