Air Operations, CBIBURMA
Air Operations, East Indies
Air Operations, New GuineaV Bomber Command B-24s attack shipping near Wewak. [ | ]Air Operations, SolomonsXIII Bomber Command B-24s on armed-reconnaissance missions attack the airfield at Ballale and the Kahili airfield on Bougainville. [ | ]AleutiansThe Japanese Supreme Command orders the evacuation of Kiska Island. The island is being shelled every day by American destroyers which prevent the arrival of any supplies except those that can be brought in by submarine. [ | ]Eastern FrontCENTRAL SECTORAs the build-up in and around ghe Kursk salient continues, the Soviet 1st, 2nd and 15th Air Armies begin a series of raids against German airfields around the salient, destroying some 220 aircraft on the ground. [ | ]Japan, PlanningThe Japanese high command gives orders that Kiska, one of the Aleutian Islands, be evacuated. A US blockade of the island, plus the fall of Attu and the strategic irrelevance of the Aleutians, leads the Japanese to abandon this northern Pacific outpost. [ | ]MediterraneanBritish naval units, including 3 torpedo-boats, shell the harbors and coastal batteries on Pantelleria. Leaflets demanding the unconditional surrender of the Italian garrison are dropped on the island. [ | ]
PacificThe battleship Mutsu sinks in Hiroshima Bay after an internal magazine explosion. [ | ] |
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