Air Operations, Aleutians

28th Composite Bomb Group bombers and 343rd Fighter Group fighters and fighter-bombers mount preinvasion strikes against Kiska throughout the day.

Air Operations, Bismarcks

A V Bomber Command B-24 on an armed-reconnaissance mission sinks a Japanese freighter near Kavieng.

Air Operations, Europe

The Luftwaffe sends a 70-plane night raid on Plymouth. Other bombers attack 'military installations' in Bournemouth.

• 8 Mosquitos are sent to Cologne and Duisburg, 23 Wellingtons lay mines off Brest, Lorient and St Nazaire, and there are 19 OTU sorties.
• 1 mine-laying Wellington is lost and 1 OTU Wellington goes down in the sea.

Air Operations, Japan

9 28th Composite Bomb Group B-24s based at the airfield on Attu attack Paramushiro Island, the Kashiwabara airfield there, and the Kataoka naval base with high-explosive and incendiary bombs. 40 A6M Zeros attack the bombers, but there are no losses.

Air Operations, Solomons

5 XIII Bomber Command B-24s attack supply dumps.

Battle of the Atlantic

• The German submarine U-525 is sunk by aircraft (VC-1) from the US escort carrier Card (CVE-11) in the North Atlantic area.
• The German submarine U-604 is damaged by US naval land-based aircraft (VB-129 and VP-107) and the US destroyer Moffett (DD-362) in the South Atlantic area. It is later scuttled.

Eastern Front

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Gunners of 66 Medium Regiment Royal Artillery in action on the slopes of Mount Etna at dawn, 11 August 1943.

Royal Artillery in Action

English Channel

5 German MTBs are hit by British fighter-bombers.

Mediterranean

The British submarine Parthian becomes missing in the Adriatic, possibly a casualty of a mine.

Solomons

Japanese Magnet Mine