Air Operations, Aleutians9 28th Composite Bomb Group B-24s attack Kiska. [ | ]Air Operations, Bismarcks1 V Bomber Command B-24 attacks Rabaul. [ | ]Air Operations, New Guinea
Air Operations, Solomons
Battle of the AtlanticUS Naval land-based aircraft (VP-94) sink the German submarine U-662 near the mouth of the Amazon River, Brazil. [ | ]Eastern FrontThe Soviets capture Bolkhov.
Germany, CommandRommel leaves his new headquarters in Bavaria to inspect Axis defenses in Greece and the Aegean. This is the sector where the Axis fears a new Allied landing. [ | ]ItalyThe Italian naval base at Crotone on the mainland is bombarded. []Occupied YugoslaviaNazi authorities in Belgrade offer 2 rewards of 100,000 Reichsmarks for the capture 'dead or alive' of the Partisan leaders Tito and Mihailovich. [ | ]SicilyThe Allied advance on Sicily continues. The British take Gerbini, the Canadians Leonforte where fighting goes on in the village streets until the morning, and the Americans Corleone and Castelvetrano. [ | ]SolomonsAn American reconnaissance group lands during the night near Barakoma, on Vella Lavella Island, northwest of Kolombangara, to examine the prospects for a landing. If they could take the island the Americans would neutralize the Japanese base at Vila, also on Kolombangara, and would be nearer to Bougainville, where the Japanese have 8 airfields and an important base at Biun. On New Georgia, Griswold lays plans for a large offensive. [ | ] |
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